Quotes About Transition

I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.

I was raised in a deeply Catholic family. There was a sense that everything we were doing was to prepare ourselves for an afterlife in heaven. In my teenage years, that became less important to me. Eventually, that turned into agnosticism, which became atheism.

When you come from an immigrant home, you're in a whole different world until you leave your house. In my teenage years, I had to learn to switch cultures the second I left my house and, when I came back, to go back to my fundamentals.

It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.

Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.

It's tough being a teenager, man!

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

When you're an adult, things mellow out. I think when you're a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.

I was a teenager, and I started to go to high school, and it was a disaster!

Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.

I started acting as a teenager, but it wasn't until I moved to New York when I was 20 that I made any kind of commitment.

When you're a teenager, your essence is so specific to being a teenager, and everything becomes so extreme. Your emotions are on the surface, and you oscillate between different things at one time.

No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

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

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

Being a teenager is complicated.

I think obviously there's a core of who you are, and as you get older, you become more aware of what behavior is immutable. For a long time, I felt there was a deep separation between the person I was as a teenager and the person I was in my 20s and early 30s .

I met Rodney when I first moved to LA, so I'd say 20 years. He's the eternal teenager.

I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.

I don't think I want to play a teenager anymore.

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

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

My mother gave me a pair of diamond earrings when I was 13. It symbolised becoming a teenager. I also remember getting a collection of costume jewellery from my grandmother when I was in high school.