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As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too. -- Johnny Depp
Being a teenager is hard. -- Mae Whitman
You've got to grow up sometime. -- Winona Ryder
Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. -- Carol Burnett
If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. -- Erma Bombeck
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. -- Bryan White
Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it. -- Bob Phillips
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. -- Laurence J. Peter
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. -- Doug Larson
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did. -- Clyde Tombaugh
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
So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible! -- Vanessa Hudgens
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. -- Dorothy Parker
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. -- Fran Lebowitz
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro. -- Dave Barry
You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is. -- Dean Kamen
Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves. -- Virginia Satir
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
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
The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way. -- Judith Martin
Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks. -- Sophia Bush
If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business. -- Jason Aldean
I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers are so resilient and strong, it's just amazing. -- James St. James
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. -- Arnold H. Glasow
In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it. -- J. K. Rowling
When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it. -- Patrick Dempsey
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
I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors. -- Beverley Mitchell
I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how that is possible. -- Shailene Woodley
Being a teenager is chaotic because you're kind of coming into your own, but you're not an adult; you're fighting with your parents over responsibilities and freedom. -- Troian Bellisario
I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it, but it was under very surreptitious circumstances. -- Lucy Alibar
Leopard print has been my thing forever! When I was a teenager my entire room was done in leopard print - it's timeless, chic, and always in style. When in doubt... leopard! -- Khloe Kardashian
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
I was called a 'CD' by a suicidal teenager, who is alive today because I became her 'Chosen Dad,' who loved her. We all have the potential to re-parent ourselves and others. -- Bernie Siegel
I'd refer to myself as a feminist. I don't think my music is overtly rooted in feminism. I'm a teenager, and 95 percent of my friends are boys, and that's just the way I've always been. -- Lorde
When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend. -- Nas
My house is a bit like a teenager's bedroom. The kind of pictures you have hanging up on your wall say a lot about you. I've got ones of Evel Knievel, Elvis and Starsky and Hutch, signed by David Soul. -- Tim Vine
Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can' meant to stay a teenager forever. What I meant was keep doing whatever makes you feel alive. -- John Mellencamp
Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces. -- Ann Patchett
When you were a teenager in Colorado, the way to be a punk rocker was to rip on Reagan and Bush and what they were doing and talk about how everyone in Colorado's a redneck with a gun and all this stuff. -- Trey Parker
I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years. I had all this desire to pursue my passions like ballet, then sailing, then music, so I didn't have any emptiness to fill. -- Kiesza
Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room. -- Roseanne Barr
If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old? -- Marilyn Manson
Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person. -- Maksim Chmerkovskiy
I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the 1970s. The pollution explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. I genuinely want the next generation, my own kids, to know that actually it's possible that the future might be better than the past. -- Matt Ridley
I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me. -- Joss Whedon
I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness. -- Michele Bachmann
My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another. -- Hiam Abbass
Insecurity, thy name is teenager. -- Jim Butcher
I was a pretty difficult teenager. -- Dan Stevens
I was a very independent teenager. -- Melanie Lynskey
I was a really pretentious teenager, -- Rebecca Hall
One doesn't remain a teenager forever. -- Mariah Carey
I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager. -- Clara Hughes
Feelings change fast when you're a teenager. -- Jacquelyn Mitchard
I failed music when I was a teenager. -- Buzz Aldrin
I'm a teenager trapped in an old body. -- Betty White
I'm a teenager, and we mess up sometimes. -- Jen Calonita
I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager. -- Isabel Gillies
You're probably the most boring teenager in the world. -- Nicholas Sparks
I don't know any teenager with a positive attitude. -- Gabourey Sidibe
As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst. -- Nigella Lawson
I started as a teenager going up on commercials. -- Fran Drescher
I was a veteran, before I was a teenager. -- Michael Jackson
I had long hair when I was a teenager. -- Beck
I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s. -- Ellen Page
It's rough being a teenager in this day and age. -- Kay Panabaker
I don't think I want to play a teenager anymore. -- Devon Sawa
I missed my teenage years. I was never a teenager. -- Jonas Mekas
When I was a teenager, I was in an iron-lung. -- Creed Bratton
You don't understand me. I'm a teenager. I've got problems! -- Jeffrey Eugenides
I've been a member of Greenpeace since I was a teenager. -- Alexander Skarsgard
I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager. -- Samantha Shannon
I've been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager. -- Ryan McGinley
People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?' -- Maisie Williams
I was a very gawky-looking teenager, so I was not cute. -- Lance Bass
I was a real art freak when I was a teenager. -- Helen McCrory
As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider. -- Shawn Ashmore
As a teenager, you are still entirely wrapped up in yourself. -- Jane Green
When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. -- Dario Argento
I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager. -- Molly Ringwald
I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old. -- Marie Lu
If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you. -- Stephen King
You've never been a teenager, sweetie. You know what's best for you. -- Stephenie Meyer
As a teenager, I was an enormous fan of Valerie Bertinelli's hair. -- Jennifer Aniston
I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing. -- Billy Crystal
I am the world's oldest teenager. I've never lost my youthful attitude. -- Rodney Dangerfield
I think I was always an old soul, even as a teenager. -- Brooke Fraser
I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else. -- Jake Epstein
Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart. -- Melody Carlson
I have never limited myself by focusing much on being a 'normal' teenager. -- Mikaela Shiffrin
I was a fan of the 'Dredd' comics when I was a teenager. -- Karl Urban
[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager. -- Oliver D. Crisp
No white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager. -- Henry Louis Gates
I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager. -- Paulo Coelho
I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again. -- Natasha Lyonne
I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits. -- Tiffani Thiessen
I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager -- Dave Grohl
I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless. -- Anne Beatts
The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager. -- Haim Ginott
I didn't feel so great when I was a teenager, but who does? -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
The best time to have a baby is when you're a black teenager. -- Sarah Silverman
Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager. -- David Lee Roth
Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom. -- Haim Ginott
I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars. -- Mary Quant
Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager. -- Nigel Kennedy
The interior of a teenager's mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever. -- William Landay
As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs. -- Anthony Minghella
Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs. -- Jeff Bridges
I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
I don't think you understand what a job really is when you're a teenager. -- Tiffani Thiessen
I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager. -- Chris Daughtry
To a teenager, it cannot be true love if her family approves of him. -- Evan Esar
I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager. -- Emily Watson
I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst. -- Jamie Bell
America has always had tinkerers, including just about any teenager who ever hot-rodded a Camaro. -- Clive Thompson
College and the responsibilities that came with it helped me transition from teenager to adulthood. -- Lee Thompson Young

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