Quotes About Adolescence

As a teenager, I was perpetually grounded. I was stubborn rather than rebellious.

I really started watching films when I was 14. As I became a teenager, there was nothing that really interested me apart from music, books and films.

I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.

The first book I bought with my own money as a teenager was Martin Amis's 'Money.' You know that thing when you read a book and you think, 'I'm going to have to read every word ever written by this man.'

I grew up mostly an only child. My dad remarried when I was a teenager. And then I had two stepbrothers. And then my dad had a second child. So I have a brother from the time I was 15. But I really grew up feeling like an only child.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became.

It is a gift to be a teenager, and I see a dad's job as lifeguard, not chaperone.

I was a very isolated teenager.

I knew I wanted to make a movie that hadn't really existed in a while in terms of being a teenager.

I didn't get as much attention as I wanted from girls as a teenager. I thought that if I became a rock star, I would finally get all that I wanted - but it didn't happen.

Parents are in denial a lot of the time - everybody knows what they did as a teenager, but somehow, when they grow up, it all disappears.

It sounds so negative of me to say, but I don't feel like there were many coming-of-age films when I was growing up. I think that when I was a teenager, I felt really misrepresented in the teenage roles that I was watching onscreen. Especially in women.

I am very tall, and when you're a teenager, you want to be like everyone else. I used to slump a lot; it's very human at that stage to want to be part of the crowd and not want any part of you that is sticking out.

When I was a teenager, I battled some severe depression.

I focused on my career. I grew up super Christian, both my parents are ministers, so I did a purity ceremony when I was a teenager.

I was such a lazy teenager: I didn't read or play the piano beyond the bare minimum.

That's the great thing about being a teenager. You think you're a genius.

That messed me up, growing up in the public eye when I was a teenager. That's when everyone is trying to find themselves.

I was a very religious teenager, and I moved away from that.

I was sort of a miserable teenager.

As a teenager, I ached to grow up even more than I dreaded to. I craved escape from my parents' impositions on what I believed.

I definitely think, when you're a teenager, it's more forgiving to talk to strangers and go up to people at a mall or whatever.

As a teenager, my brother's girlfriend came into my life, and I just thought she was the bomb. I followed her around, and she could just say anything, and it would influence me. She took me to my first nice restaurant, bought me my first nice handbag, and took me to my first Alvin Ailey show when I was 14, which changed my life.

As a teenager, I played men in my first two plays.