Quotes About Adolescence

I always had a hard time communicating my emotions. I'd retreat into my bedroom and listen to music. And when you're a teenager, you're dealing with all these hormones. It's like, 'What are these?'

The guys love us - they think we're sexy - but the girls take us seriously... I've always said that when I was a teenager growing up, I wish I had girls like Salt-n-Pepa to look up to. If I'd had someone I could relate to, a lot of things would probably be different.

I remember being a teenager and feeling like I could talk to anyone anywhere about anything.

When I was a teenager, I was super-awkward. I don't think I really felt comfortable in my body or with how I looked, and people were nasty.

I was not a happy teenager in the slightest.

I was a child in the '60s and a teenager in the '70s, which was the golden age of film as far as I'm concerned, between American film and the Italian reinvention of genre film.

'Empire of the Sun' is one of the films that I often think about. I think it had a profound effect on me when I first watched it as a teenager.

When I was a teenager, I worked on a show that was about a family.

I think you are going through so many 'firsts' as a teenager, and it's a charged time because of that. You don't have much autonomy in life. Everything is just kind of crazy, and there are so many huge decisions to be made, like where are you going to college or who you date. These things can really affect your whole life.

I've been into short stories ever since I read an Angela Carter collection when I was a teenager.

I couldn't quite get the hang of how to socialise as a teenager. I didn't really understand it.

I was heavy and overweight as a teenager, so it's hard to be cocky or egotistical.

As a teenager, I read a lot of science-fiction, but then I read 'Catch-22' and 'The Catcher in the Rye' and started reading more literary fiction.

As a teenager, I didn't really think about anything. I was just stumbling around trying to find something.

I liked Dalgety Bay, but my life did not revolve around the house. I was a teenager there, and these things aren't that important at that age.

I was sometimes a bit lonely as a teenager. There was a cultural disconnect.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

The most dangerous age is 14. If you know any teenagers, this might not come as a surprise, but research has confirmed that risk-taking peaks during this exact moment in mid-adolescence.

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

All teenagers feel like aliens on occasion, and they all have secrets to share.

I think all teenagers feel a lot of things at once; everything's going crazy in our brain.

I used to say teenagers were the aliens among us and I think all teenagers feel that way in many respects.

I tried to avoid anything that caused me frustration or grief or duress. I played FarmVille and procrastinated like all teenagers.

I think that at 21, I still look like I'm 17 years old, so I feel like I'm going to be playing teenagers for a while, and that's a very relatable stage in a teenage life for a female - that kind of rambunctious stage.