Quotes About Youth

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

I think there's actually a benefit to working with teen actors: they've got such boundless energy, and everybody is willing to try different things.

I think I'm trouble-adjacent. I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like. I skirted the stuff that other kids were doing because the idea of actually getting in trouble was not appealing to me, but I still wanted to have adventures.

Can you imagine peaking as a teen? I think if you peak in high school, there's a problem. That's what my sister always said: 'Don't worry, you'll peak later.'

People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired.

I love telling teen stories where the characters are experiencing things for the first time - the stakes feel really high.

I went down the creative path in my teen years, and when I was in high school, in my junior year, I would perform at this program that was very similar to 'School of Rock.' That was when I started writing and realized that's what I wanted to do.

I absolutely adore classic crime and read a huge amount as a teen - Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sherlock Holmes, Josephine Tey, and many more.

Teen fandom is so potent. Any choice they make in pop culture forces the rest of the world to take notice.

If you have a famous parent, you know that being famous doesn't make you superior to anyone else. It just means people smile at you more. Everyone was fawning all over my father, but of course, the way you look at your parents when you're a teen is often with a... more critical eye.

I'll write teen stories as long as people will let me. I'll also be excited for the day when I'm told I can no longer write teen stories.

Jughead, to me, was reflective of a teen experience that made a lot of sense to me.

Growing up, I didn't have a chance to watch a lot of films. It wasn't until my teen years that I had to chance to see the classic films.

I've never really been a rebellious teen.

'I Think We're Alone Now' just makes people feel good. It became a teen anthem twice. How cool is that?

I'm ashamed to say, but as a teen, there were times when I had to go to the church and get help.

As an early teen, soccer is the number one thing that you do - and I wasn't very good at that.

During my teen years, I just really started to get anxiety. I would get stage fright when I would do certain speaking engagements and I always would get through them, but it was a really nerve-racking and hard thing to do.

It's very important to see a black gay teen represented.

I guess I never took my fame as a teen idol too seriously.

It's not hard to get into a teen's head, because it's all emotions. Their feelings are amplified; you have no luxury of hindsight. If you haven't had your heart broken before, you don't know that you'll be able to get back up again.

I still bump 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.' I used to listen to it before all my football games.

I've been trying face products since I was, like 13, 12 years old. I use to break out a lot, especially in my teen years.

I've had a lot of compulsions throughout my life which mainly started as a teen around the time I was doing exams.