3 December 2020 Tayari Jones 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.
3 December 2020 Caroline Rhea 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Art Linkletter 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.
3 December 2020 Penelope Spheeris This generation has given up on growth. They’re just hoping for survival.
3 December 2020 Maggie Stiefvater 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.
3 December 2020 Dave Barry To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
3 December 2020 Roger Ebert If a movie isn’t a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.
3 December 2020 Clyde Tombaugh Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Evelyn Glennie 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.
3 December 2020 G. Stanley Hall Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
3 December 2020 Vincent D'Onofrio I found my niche as a character actor, and I’ve never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.
3 December 2020 Vanessa Hudgens So many people try to grow up too fast, and it’s not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
3 December 2020 Constance Baker Motley I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.
3 December 2020 Stephen Moyer I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than ‘Twilight.’
3 December 2020 Winona Ryder I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
3 December 2020 Louise J. Kaplan The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.
3 December 2020 Emily Giffin Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!
3 December 2020 Ethel Waters 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.
3 December 2020 Macaulay Culkin 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.
3 December 2020 Fran Lebowitz 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.
