Teen Quotes

Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.

I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

I was a handful growing up.

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.

I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere.

In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it.

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.

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

I've been doing TV for fourteen years, and I've always had a fascination with the political business side. It's ruled my life. Ratings or no ratings have decided where I live, who I work with, and how long I'll be doing that particular job.

Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.

I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.

Thirteen years after the end of the Soviet Union, the American press establishment seemed eager to turn Ukraine's protested presidential election on November 21 into a new cold war with Russia.

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.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.

Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers.

Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.

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.

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.