Quotes About Youth

I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me... I did not believe in happy endings. I wanted to read books which reflected life as I thought I knew it.

The music that I'm known for is quiet and gentle, although when I was growing up and as a teenager, I was playing the opposite - I was screaming and playing bass and those loud electric guitars.

When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions.

My life is certainly not common, but I think of myself as... a 'normal' teenager.

I'm 85 years old. I've been in business since I was a teenager, practically; I was in grade school, and I even had a paper route. I always had a job so I could have money to spend on girls.

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.

My early years were hardly a model of focus, discipline, and direction. No one who met me as a teenager could have imagined my going into research and making important discoveries. No one could have predicted the arc of my career.

My mum is very driven and has always kept me busy... She used to say to me, 'Nobody likes a teenager. So use your teenage years to work. Then enjoy your life when you're slightly older.'

I get to be a teenager like every other teenager, but I have a passion and a great goal in life.

When I was a teenager, I was a huge computer nerd. I went to computer programming camp. I went to space camp.

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.

As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater.

Early in my modeling career, when I was a teenager, I really took care of my skin. I didn't get too much sun exposure, and I moisturized.

My advice to any teenager would be don't try too hard - just get on with it. That's what I did. Have fun; enjoy life.

I did rap when I was a teenager - started rapping when I was nine, and started singing when I was 20. I kinda sing like a rapper would sing.

Sometimes I'll make face masks at home, and it's fun. I love that. I've been doing it since I was a teenager.

When I think about myself as a teenager going to festivals, you look to the main stage as the main entertainment of the night.

As a teenager I was severely, cripplingly dramatic and in search of self.

I would not openly categorize myself as a sullen teenager, but that kind of role comes more easier to me than a bright, perky thing.

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

When I was a teenager, you wanted to go to the movies. Go and see 'Mean Streets,' go and see 'The Conversation,' go and see 'Taxi Driver.'

I remember being a teenager and watching 40-year-old Michael Jordan compete in his final All-Star game.

In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble.