Teenager Quotes - Page 6

• When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.

  Michael Weatherly

  Song, Dad, Night

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• Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Real, Fighting, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was a very independent teenager.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Independent

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• I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.

  Don McLean

  Fun, Real, Guitar

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• I was a fan of the 'Dredd' comics when I was a teenager.

  Karl Urban

  Fans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

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• Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Children, Book, School

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• So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that. What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I’m evidence of that. I’ve been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.

  Sharron Angle

  Country, Grandchildren, Asian

  "Angle to Hispanic children: “Some of you look a little more Asian to me”". lasvegassun.com. October 18, 2010.

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• Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.

  Brad Falchuk

  Desire, Heard, Feels

  "We're All Gleeks - 10 Questions for Glee Co-Creator Brad Falchuk". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. December 7, 2009.

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• Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.

  Magnus

  Moving, Self, Bedroom

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• I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'

  Edgar Wright

  Girl, Break, Periods

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.

  Joey McIntyre

  Dream, Band, World

  "NKOTBSB interview: 'One Direction need good songs for success'". Interview with Lewis Corner, www.digitalspy.com. March 16, 2012.

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• The response of teenagers to their idols is relevant. As an audience, they enjoy themselves, not by screaming with laughter, but screaming with screams.

  Desmond Morris

  Laughter, Idols, Youth

  Desmond Morris (1967). “The Naked Ape”

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• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  Carl Bernstein

  Beautiful, Crush, Girl

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• I hope that by modeling feminism in my own life, work and relationships that it will haut become an organic part of my daughter's life. But I'm also fully prepared for her to become a Republican as a way to rebel as a teenager - that would be just my luck!

  Jessica Valenti

  Daughter, Luck, Feminism

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• To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise we are, we cannot be right for any length of time in our teenagers' eyes.

  Haim Ginott

  Wise, Eye, Understanding

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• 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.

  Aimee Teegarden

  Growing Up, Awkward, Trying

  "Jackson Rathbone and Aimee Teegarden Interview AIM HIGH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 17, 2011.

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• When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.

  Melvin Burgess

  Teacher, Jobs, Zoos

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• Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager.

  Ned Beauman

  Growing Up, Book, Long

  "Ned Beauman: 'What sticks in my mind is praise from the wrong people'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2012.

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• I'm not a big gore hound but monster gore is different to me than killing a teenager in any way that you can when another human-like person does it. I don't know how I rationalize that really but it seems different to me.

  Rick Baker

  Monsters, Doe, Different

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• I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Country, Children, Rocks

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

  Barry Commoner

  Different, Way, Certain

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• When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me.

  Chester Brown

  Interesting, Stories, Magazines

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• And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.

  Roger Ebert

  Sex, Rejection, Imagine

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• You can go to the Internet and know more than your mom in two seconds. It's crazy how fast teenagers have knowledge and information these days. So, I think it's harder to say, 'Your father and I know more than you.

  Katie Finneran

  Mom, Father, Crazy

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