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I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.
— Ellie Goulding
I was a handful growing up.
— Olivia Wilde
There was a three-year chunk as a teen where I should have been tranquilized and put in a cage.
— Melissa McCarthy
I built my entire career off of teen comedies. I was in 'Bring It On'.
— Kirsten Dunst
Guilty pleasure implies that it's something that I feel guilty for watching... people tell me I should feel guilty for watching because I'm too old to watch it, but I don't give a damn: I love everything on Cartoon Network from 'Adventure Time' to 'The Adventures of Gumball', 'Teen Titans'... all those shows that are for my kids, I like those!
— Ne-Yo
Doesn't matter whether it's a teen girl who's pregnant, hasn't told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day.
— Mike Huckabee
For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.
— Chris Evans
When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, 'It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.'
— Chris Evans
Costumes say a lot about a character. When it came to 'Palo Alto,' it was important for me that the kids didn't look perfect. In most teen movies today, all of the clothes are expensive. I remember wearing a lot of dirty vintage clothes.
— Gia Coppola
Mrs. Palin is history in a dress. And her script is straight out of Hollywood - like those teen movies with the cliched ending featuring the female valedictorian delivering the speech of a lifetime projecting a bold and transformative future with an independent-minded woman in charge.
— Andrew Breitbart
Lesley Gore's part-time field was pop singer, and in her brief but urgent prime, she was the Queen of Teen Angst. She endured heartbreak as a birthday girl betrayed by her beau in 'It's My Party,' savored revenge in the sequel 'Judy's Turn to Cry' and belted the proto-feminist anthem 'You Don't Own Me.'
— Richard Corliss
Fifth grade was when I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit;' it was the energy, and his voice. I liked 311 and Sublime, too, though that might have been a little after that.
— Ty Dolla Sign
I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.
— John Cusack
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.
— Julie Burchill
All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.
— David Cassidy
Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they were constantly discussing your second year of college. I'm not back there anymore. I'm living in the present.
— David Cassidy
I love being in a public space where teenagers are talking. And the funny thing is that it hasn't changed that much. There's certainly slang that I'm not familiar with, but among the average teen, it's still the same.
— Marti Noxon
I definitely think there could be stricter teen driving laws.
— Victoria Justice
To even be called the 'teen queen' is crazy.
— Victoria Justice
I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.
— James McAvoy
I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them. 
— J. K. Simmons
I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.
— Harvey Weinstein
Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.
— Jane Fonda
If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.
— Jane Fonda
Clothes are like a suit of armour when you're young. I was quite a shy teen, so I wanted to make aggressive statements with the way I looked. I'd say my goth/indie stage was the worst: there was a lot of experimentation involving pink food dye in my fringe.
— Erin O'Connor
I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
— Danica McKellar
I hate it when people call me a teen queen.
— Lindsay Lohan
I've always enjoyed teen characters, and kids as well. For whatever reason, I seem to have an ability to do it sort of well, and I enjoy doing it.
— Jeff Lemire
I was a total metal-head as a teen. I still love it, too.
— Kristian Nairn
When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'
— Ice T
When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.
— Rob Sheffield
The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.
— Gus Van Sant
I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music.
— Kim Gordon
Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits, of adolescents trying on various selves.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
I've always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' 'Here we are now/Entertain us' - the irony, the antagonism; that's always stuck with me.
— Corey Taylor
The United States has made remarkable progress in reducing both teen pregnancy and racial and ethnic differences, but the reality is, too many American teens are still having babies.
— Tom Frieden
They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
— Rick Springfield
I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.
— Brittany Snow
People love teen movies because everyone can relate.
— Zoe Kravitz
People don't know the real me. The hard times I went through are what led me to my life now. I was a mess as a teen! I was kind of wild and really unhappy.
— Kristin Cavallari
I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
— Rachel Zoe
Obviously when you're a teen you have no money, so you make, like, three outfits out of one dress. You're like, 'OK cut the arms here. Alright: New party, cut them to here.'
— Marina and the Diamonds
I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent.
— Michael Eric Dyson
Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.
— Jamie Lee Curtis
I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.
— Willie Aames
Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it.
— Willie Aames
I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.
— Vincent D'Onofrio
When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.
— Dario Argento
I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment.
— Tom Scholz
Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.
— Macaulay Culkin
I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.
— Martina McBride
If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.
— Martin Seligman
I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.
— Josh Hartnett
I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.
— Heath Ledger
As a kid, I was definitely a DC guy. I started reading big time in the '80s at the height of the Wolfman/Perez 'New Teen Titans.' That was definitely the book that hooked me.
— Jason Aaron
I went on an audition once for a show, and the feedback was to play an angry teen. My agent convinced me to try out. I was really bitter for a while, because it sucks when you don't get good scripts after working on good quality.
— Alia Shawkat
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
— Laurence J. Peter
Watching 'CSI: Miami' is like watching 'Teen Jeopardy!' or doing the crossword puzzle in 'People' magazine. It makes you feel smart even when you're not.
— Willie Geist
Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.
— Mal Peet
The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.
— Lorde
I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again.
— Alexa Vega
I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.'
— Yves Behar
How the original 'Cosmos' affected me personally was long-term. I wasn't born early enough to see the original series, but after getting a hold of it in my teen years, it was one of the driving forces behind my passion for science.
— Kyle Hill
In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasn't my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all buddies, so it's not like I missed out on socializing. I was really enjoying myself.
— Dorothy Hamill
Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.
— Evelyn Glennie
I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.
— Matthew Vaughn
I didn't have a teen age at all. I didn't even look at boys, never mind... then suddenly it was like, 'Oh my god!' So I made up for a lot of lost time very quickly. It was kind of bonkers. Working hard, partying hard - but also experiencing life, you know.
— Anne-Marie Duff
I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
— Natasha Lyonne
Being a musician since I was a teen, Guitar Center is the staple. You need anything to create, it's there. You need a Guitar Center. You gotta give it homage. It's a tool shed, and without the tool shed, it's hard to create.
— Steve Aoki
I will be able to look back on my teen years as spent on a television set just having the biggest bunch of fun.
— Sophie Turner
I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.
— Jamie Bell
I tend to like writing long stories in comics. I worked on 'Flash,' 'Teen Titans' and 'JSA' for years. I always like diving into characters.
— Geoff Johns
My first job in TV was hosting this young teen magazine show, and all these high school teenagers showed up from all over Sacramento, California, and they chose four of us to host the show, two boys and two girls. And of the two girls, I was kind of the perky smart one and the other girl was the pretty one.
— Lisa Ling
Everybody is a teenage idol.
— Barry Gibb
I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.
— Selma Blair
I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction.
— Meg Cabot
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.
— Amity Shlaes
I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.
— Constance Baker Motley
I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust?
— Anna Chlumsky
It seems like whenever a big newspaper or TV show talks about teen literature, they focus on dark books or vampire books. It's kind of this cliche. It seems like the only time adults pay attention is with that angle.
— Jay Asher
Teenagers are asking, 'Who am I?' and 'How do I fit in?' in every aspect of their lives, and the best YA romances appreciate that there is more to a teen's life than finding love.
— Sarah MacLean
'Teen Moms!' I started watching them like the first two seasons, and I stopped. I stopped because they are too young. I feel sorry for them. And I didn't watch that show 'Hoarders.' That thing would made my skin crawl.
— NeNe Leakes
I first read Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' as a teen in school, like you did. I read the book alone, eating lunch at my locker, neatly scored oranges my mother divided into five lines with a circle at the top, so my fingers could dig more easily into the orange skin. To this day, the smell of oranges reminds me of 'Mockingbird.'
— Margaret Stohl
The eight months I took off between 'Teen Vogue' and 'Lucky' afforded me such amazing opportunities, and I learned so much from so many different people - the brands that I worked with, the companies that I was consulting for.
— Eva Chen
I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
— Ethel Waters
I think the feeling was that 'Venture Brothers' really has something to sell in terms of a feature. 'Aqua Teen' is an element minute cartoon, and its very subversive and non sequitur and weird. We were writing the one show where we were constantly like, 'God, I wish we had another hour to tell this story.' It seemed like a natural fit.
— Christopher McCulloch
Katy Perry still gets me every time. She's very funny in person! We met at the Teen Choice Awards and she pulled my cheeks apart and told me how cute I was. My life was literally flashing before my eyes!
— Niall Horan
'Teen Spirit' is a celebration of the power that music can deliver to the cinematic experience.
— Max Minghella
What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow!
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
As I got older, I had a bunch of friends that were various teen stars. I've always known people in the spotlight and people who just grew up in L.A. and had nothing to do with the industry. It's not a glamorous thing to me. It's just a different type of business.
— Troian Bellisario
I'm not a teen anymore, but growing up, some of my favorite things were, like, 'Twin Peaks,' which wasn't even really my time, and this is one of the things, like a weird, quirky, small town mystery.
— Troian Bellisario
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
— Uma Thurman
I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16 I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining. 
— Maggie Stiefvater
When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
— Maggie Stiefvater
I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.
— Sara Zarr
I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than 'Twilight.'
— Stephen Moyer
I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.
— S. E. Hinton
I don't know if this is too weird to say, but this is completely surreal for me. Bizarre. The cover of 'Teen Vogue' has been on my bucket list forever.
— Lily Collins
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
— Alice Hoffman
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
— Anita Brookner
Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.
— Dale Earnhardt
I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.
— Nigella Lawson
Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.
— Tony Visconti
The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.
— Andrew Shue
If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.
— Andrew Shue
I got the acting bug really young, when I was around, like, 10. I pretty much just wanted to be Michael J. Fox. He was in 'Teen Wolf' - that was, like, the coolest role, and then he did 'Back to the Future,' and that was the coolest role.
— Bryan Greenberg
I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it.
— Jennifer Damiano
One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'
— K. A. Applegate
When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The guys I liked were quirky and different: They listened to music I'd never heard of, never had lunch or gas money, and could always make you laugh.
— Sarah Dessen
I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.
— Sarah Dessen
When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.
— Max Brooks
A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.
— Brendan I. Koerner
I'm definitely of the 'Harry Potter'-transfigured-me-into-a-reader-and-writer generation. And that's really all I read throughout my teen years, because I really devoted all my time to writing and reading friends' fan-fiction.
— Adam Silvera
I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else.
— Amanda Bynes
The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.
— David Wilkerson
The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.
— David Wilkerson
I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.
— David Wilkerson
Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.
— David Wilkerson
If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
— Rainbow Rowell
The eighties were my teen years, so the GoGos are sort of a touchstone.
— Corin Tucker
My first break was becoming a staff writer on the rebooted '90210.' And then I got stuck writing in the teen genre for a while.
— Allison Schroeder
This may just be me, but I feel like everyone's dream is to live as an American high school student. There are so many teen films set in America that you live vicariously through them, anyway.
— Katherine Langford
At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.
— Milla Jovovich
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
— Terry Brooks
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
— Clyde Tombaugh
I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.
— Diane Cilento
I was never interested in 'Teen Beat' like roles. I just wanted to work.
— Jared Leto
Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I mean, I've kinda gotten over, I guess I'm saying, the fact that I had trouble getting a date for the prom.
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.
— Michelle Branch
Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.
— Rian Johnson
I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.
— Ed Begley, Jr.
I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.
— David Suchet
If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.
— Max Irons
We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.
— John Walters
Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.
— John Walters
Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.
— John Walters
I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.
— Adam Brody
I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.
— Cecily von Ziegesar
Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do.
— Tamora Pierce
Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.
— Devon Sawa
If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.
— Sam Trammell
Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.
— Chantal Kreviazuk
I can have a song with Ariana Grande that is going to be the song for all the kids and the teen girls, and then another song that could be for a different group of people who all love the song. I'm with whoever. Whatever type of people want to love the music and whatever they love about the music is fine with me.
— Mac Miller
I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.
— Leelee Sobieski
Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.
— Leif Garrett
I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.
— Robert Mundell
I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn't keep up.
— Saskia de Brauw
I'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I'm like a teenager. I'd have 'Teen Beat' if I could, for grown-ups.
— Caroline Rhea
'Snowpiercer' is a little bit more experimental, I think, and crafted for a slightly different audience. 'The Giver' is more about teen angst.
— Marco Beltrami
The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.
— Sean Covey
To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.
— Curtis Armstrong
Ever since I was a little teen, I was told by my great-grandma that you've got to always have a good moisturizer. I use cocoa butter, and I use it for all things needing moisture - face, hair, throw it on those legs at the beach, get them all shiny. Cocoa butter is such a great product.
— Sufe Bradshaw
I consider myself a writer. I always wanted to act, and as a teen, I studied acting devotedly. Eventually, I got writing work, but very little acting work.
— Winnie Holzman
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
— John B. S. Haldane
Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!
— Emily Giffin
Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.
— Frankie Avalon
I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.
— Stephen Dorff
Robin McKinley's 'The Blue Sword' was a defining book of my teen years, and I'd love to have more books like that in the world.
— Carrie Vaughn
I don't usually like teen novels written in the present tense, particularly those told from a first-person viewpoint. Too many writers seem to believe that using either or both devices automatically imbues their stories with deep seriousness and a contemporary feel.
— Tony Bradman
I'm so fascinated by the concept of teen pregnancy for some reason. Not that I condone it or promote it, but it's just a very real thing in our country and culture.
— Leven Rambin
Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.
— Lukas Haas
The first time I got pregnant, I was a young girl - I was 17 years old. Although I knew right away that I wanted to keep my child, being a pregnant teen was an extremely scary experience for me. Luckily, my family and friends were very supportive and were there for me every step of the way.
— Paula Garces
Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
— Jim Bishop
As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.
— Joe Bob Briggs
I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That.
— Mia Kirshner
I grew up in a small town in Kansas, so I love meeting the fans. Those are the people who spend time out of their day to watch the things that I've done, and I've gotten to do some great supernatural stuff - 'Teen Wolf' and 'The Gates' before that - so it's nice when I get to go to Comic-Con every year.
— Colton Haynes
I think doing 'Teen Wolf' is just giving me a really great opportunity to possibly get other jobs and show what I can do.
— Colton Haynes
I think the fans from the original 'Teen Wolf' tuned in expecting us to ruin the franchise, and I think that we've only heightened it. So we've brought 'Teen Wolf' back.
— Colton Haynes
To be honest, and this is terrible to admit, I hardly read any teen mystery books at all.
— John Allison
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.
— Ruth Ware
But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
— Wayne Kramer
I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.
— Tayari Jones
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.
— Peyton Reed
As a white teen, I was very drawn to hip-hop culture, almost to the point of disappearing in it - there was a sense of having no sense of authenticity except this one that wasn't mine.
— Jess Row
I love being a teen because you don't have all the responsibilities of an adult yet.
— Elizabeth Gillies
I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.
— Lacey Chabert
I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So I always try to be extra nice when I go into a store. But malls are part of our culture, if you watched any teen comedy in the '80s. it's clear that malls are where we live!
— Jayma Mays
When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.
— Linda Hunt
The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
— Ann Brashares
Cartoons are the best stuff on TV. 'Wonder Showzen,' 'Aqua Teen,' 'SpongeBob,' and, of course, 'South Park' - one of the funniest shows ever made.
— Akiva Schaffer
I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do.
— Simone Elkeles
'Teen Beach Movie' was a lot of fun because we were in Puerto Rico on an island - you can't even call it work!
— Ross Lynch
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
— Robert Cormier
In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.
— Art Linkletter
I'm a teen boy, so I like seeing blood and guts. I know it's fake, but I'm having fun.
— Chandler Riggs
You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early teen, gave me an advantage - understanding them from their point of view, because it's about them, it's not about you - it's their vision and what they're capable of achieving, and you're the conduit.
— Tommy Mottola
And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers' poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.
— Ellen Hopkins
I didn't know what was going to happen with 'Teen Wolf.' I was only scheduled to do four episodes for them, but they kept me on, and I was like, 'Sweet! I'm still employed! That's awesome!' And then, they let me know that they were considering having me for the second half of the season.
— Adelaide Kane
I'm still good friends with everybody from 'Teen Wolf.' I still see them, and I go to Jeff Davis' for 'Teen Wolf' night when I can. It was such a rewarding experience. That's such a fun set.
— Adelaide Kane
I pass on a lot of teen roles that get sent to me because a lot of the time it doesn't feel real. It's sugar-coated. There's no depth to it.
— Dylan Minnette
I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join.
— Sarah Mlynowski
I watch a lot of teen TV and read a lot of YA novels. I also talk to teens whenever I can. There are cultural differences between when I was a teen and now, but emotions - anger, angst, love - are the same.
— Sarah Mlynowski
Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.
— Rider Strong
My high school years were fun and frustrating, typical of the teen years. The most important accomplishment was meeting my wife, Ruth.
— Alan J. Heeger
I'm pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. It's so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and you're like, Oy! It's the same thing again!
— Marla Sokoloff
I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
— Dana Snyder
I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.
— Magda Apanowicz
Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.
— Brendan Fehr
Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.
— Ally Condie
I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.
— Seth Gabel
There's a theory about fame: the moment it strikes, it arrests development. Michael Jackson remained suspended in childhood, enjoying sleepovers and funfairs; Winona Ryder, an errant teen who dabbled in shoplifting and experimented with pills; George Clooney, a 30-year-old commitment-phobe, never quite ready yet to settle down.
— Jemima Khan
It's always good to get feedback from people. I've been fortunate that all the fans, and especially fans of 'Teen Wolf,' have been really gracious.
— Sinqua Walls
Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers.
— Robin Wasserman
Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.
— Robin Wasserman
When I turned thirteen and took a typing class, with typical early teen enthusiasm and total lack of critical ability, I started sending my stuff to publishers once I'd babysat long enough to earn the postage.
— Sherwood Smith
Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.
— John Knowles
I think if we were going to worry about teen pregnancy being glamorized, we should worry about shows like 'Teen Mom'. If people are going to want to have children at a young age because they see it on TV, I think that depends on the type of person you're dealing with.
— Chelsea Kane
As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
— Lady Starlight
When I was 14, I came very close to becoming a gay teen suicide 'statistic,' but I then turned to music, my piano, my loved ones, and discovered that it does in fact get better.
— Blake McIver Ewing
I don't really think I feel pressured to become a teen sensation because that's not really my goal in life. It's not really about being star, being popular or having lots of girls. It's really about continuing to be able to act and have fun, and do what I like to do.
— Chris Massoglia
I do a lot of teen shows and voice over work for animation, so when I got the part in 'The Number 23,' it was really cool because now I get to be in a movie with Jim Carrey. Acting in this movie was really a learning experience for me.
— Paul Butcher
I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.
— Nancy Werlin
'Catcher in the Rye.' I feel like any brooding teen loves that book.
— Justice Smith
When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.
— Johnny Otis
When I was a freshman, I didn't have that much time for extra-curriculars, so I didn't do any theater stuff. Actually, I didn't do it with my school. I did theater with this thing called Teen Source.
— Shanley Caswell
I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.
— Jeff Healey
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
— Jules Feiffer
My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.
— Carolyn Mackler
My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
— Nancy Garden
Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.
— Ally Carter
A departure from the movie with Michael J. Fox, 'Teen Wolf' tells the story of how a group of angsty teens deal with werewolves, their supernatural kin and the world of trouble that comes with it, all while trying to still live their lives.
— Keahu Kahuanui
It hasn't been until the last couple years that I've started playing close to my age. But it's fun playing the younger roles because it takes you back to the teen years.
— Kerr Smith
This is actually something no one knows, but my mom was really the one who created the entire style for 'Teen Witch.' I'm dead serious. She was super involved, and is super creative, so I wore a lot of my actual clothes in the movie. Truly, Louise was my mom's vision. She really created an iconic character.
— Robyn Lively
Because of people like that guy in San Francisco who told me it changed his life, 'Teen Witch' is my most favorite thing I've ever done. I see how happy it makes people, and that makes me happy. The great thing is that no one realized it was going to become all these things when we were making it. We thought we were making a very serious movie.
— Robyn Lively
My younger sister and younger brother are huge 'Teen Witch' fans.
— Robyn Lively
This is actually something no one knows, but my mom was really the one who created the entire style for 'Teen Witch.' I'm dead serious.
— Robyn Lively
I think teen girls will like 'Geek Charming' because they really focus on the 'populars' and nerdy people and people who are in between the nerds and between the populars. So it really hits every category of what girls are going through in high school.
— Lili Simmons
There's an indie movie I did called 'Fat Kid Rules the World,' which was based on a teen book, and it's a fabulous story, and hopefully it'll go to theaters because it is an amazing story.
— Lili Simmons
'Pretty Little Liars,' you know, it's a teen show that grew to be something bigger. I think you had girls from ages 7 to, like, 20 watching the show, and that was the predominant audience. Then it grew to be for girls, boys, men, women, people who are 7 to 35. I think that's crazy.
— Aeriel Miranda
The 'Teen Wolf' fans are so great.
— Charlie Carver
I was a big fan of black gospel. As a kid, there were black groups I sang with from my teen years to my early 20s.
— Cory Wells
Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
— Tom Petty
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
— Plato
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
— P. T. Barnum
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
— Billy Joel
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
— Roy Ayers
Sometimes, being different feels a lot like being alone. But with that being said, being true to that and being true to my standards and my way of doing things in my art and my music, everything that has made me feel very different... in the end, it has made me the happiest.
— Lindsey Stirling
If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.
— will.i.am
Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
— Stevie Wonder
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
— Henny Youngman
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
— Plato
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
— Berthold Auerbach
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
— Ronald Reagan
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
— Charles Baudelaire
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
— Pat Conroy
Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
— Lady Gaga
Mathematics is the music of reason.
— James Joseph Sylvester
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
— E. Y. Harburg
Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.
— Macklemore
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
— James Gates Percival
I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
— Christina Milian
Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That's the power of music.
— LZ Granderson
There's just a completely different vibe at festivals. Everyone gets to hang out and enjoy their favorite music all day. I really do try and play as many festivals as possible!
— Kygo
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. 
— Martin Luther
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
— Pythagoras
I call architecture frozen music.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.
— Heather Watts
Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.
— Dimebag Darrell
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
— Reba McEntire
Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
— Louis Armstrong
Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them. 
— Louis Armstrong
Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.
— Judith Viorst
I was raised in a very humble environment, and I was always taught to be humble to the things that are happening in my life because they're blessings. They're blessings in every way. Whether you're able to help someone get through a tough time in their life through your music or through comedy, or whatever it is, you're just a channel.
— Justin Timberlake
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
— Elton John
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
— Yo-Yo Ma
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
— Joan Miro
If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.
— Eminem
I'm not a pretty princess, and I'm aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, really bold, and characters that in a way almost have a dark side and are kind of evil because, for me, that's when I feel my strongest and fiercest, when I'm not necessarily the good girl.
— Ashley Wagner
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
— Eminem
I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.
— Elizabeth Berkley
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'
— Elvis Presley
I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.
— Aaron Paul
That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.
— Harry Styles
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
— Martin Luther