3 December 2020 Ally Condie Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.
3 December 2020 Sam Trammell 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.
3 December 2020 Kim Gordon 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.
3 December 2020 Devon Sawa Final Destination was the closest thing I’ve done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.
3 December 2020 Brendan Fehr Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn’t make it a teen movie.
3 December 2020 Robert Cormier I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
3 December 2020 Virginia Satir 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.
3 December 2020 Rian Johnson 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.
3 December 2020 Saskia de Brauw 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.
3 December 2020 Martina McBride 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.
3 December 2020 Milla Jovovich 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.
3 December 2020 Brittany Snow 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.
3 December 2020 Laurence J. Peter Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
3 December 2020 Leven Rambin 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.
3 December 2020 Ben Lindsey Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
3 December 2020 Uma Thurman 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.
3 December 2020 Justin Timberlake My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It’s laid out for you. It’s just up to you to walk it.
3 December 2020 Amanda Bynes 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.
3 December 2020 George Foreman My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
3 December 2020 Linda Hunt 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.
3 December 2020 Michelle Branch 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.
3 December 2020 Wayne Kramer 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.
3 December 2020 Dean Kamen 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.
