Quotes About Experience

I'm, like, finishing up high school. I don't know how you can learn anything from me because I'm still, like, a teenager. I don't know what I'm doing with my life.

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

I was born looking older - and I've been aging since I was a teenager.

'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?

Although I'm a retired teenager, I remember what it was like to be one. I could have sworn I was riding an emotional roller coaster most of the time. Looking back, I'm actually amazed that I survived. Barely.

I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known.

I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

I did a CBS thing when I was a teenager that was a 'Music Minute' or something.

When I was a teenager, in the '80s, it was 'Dynasty.' It was 'Beverly Hills, 90210.' And those were fantasies. Those weren't reflective of my experience. And I think we all want that; we all want to see ourselves, our story told, something to relate to, to help us and know that we're not freaks, that our experiences aren't odd.

I don't think you understand what a job really is when you're a teenager.

When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.

In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.

I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun.

I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.

I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate.

I loved 'Terminator 2' as a teenager and 'Sound of Music' when I was a kid. I also loved 'Requiem For A Dream' as a college student and 'Mulholland Drive.' And I have loved 'Lincoln' as an adult. They are all the same, as they are all good stories and extraordinary actors.

I failed music when I was a teenager.

I won't play a teenager.

I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.

I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.

In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

Like many other people of my generation, I don't think I ever really bothered to grow up. I wasn't ever really a proper teenager until I was about 19, and maybe I got a bit stuck there, because it seemed to go on and on.