‘What’s My Line’ 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget ‘your first’!
I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.
A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn’t have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.
I find that the stuff on television is more exciting than the films, which are for teens almost.
I talk to teens everyday about topics that are often extraordinarily uncomfortable.
It was a very idyllic childhood, surrounded by utterly beautiful landscapes that I got very, very bored of when I hit my teens. But being on your own a lot and being bored is good for your imagination. It makes it stretch.
It seems in this day and age our teens are going to the Internet to learn all the things we would ask our dads. How to tie a tie, how to shave, all those little things.
Our goal is really to make sure that ‘Instagram’, whether you’re a celebrity or not, is a safe place and that the content that gets posted is something that’s appropriate for teens and also for adults.
The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
We definitely need more women in politics. We don’t want women in their late teens or early twenties who are interested in politics to think they would never go into it.
I can build a house with my bare hands. In my late teens I was in a band with my friend Henrik, and his builder father thought we needed something to fall back on, so he taught us carpentry and bricklaying and we built a house over two years.
The truth is that those who join gangs – more often than not they are young men in their later teens – often do come from the most difficult family backgrounds, from an environment where they feel neglected and unwanted. Gang membership can bring a perverse sense of belonging which they may not have ever got at home.
Maybe if I ever come to write about my teens and adulthood – and I can’t imagine I will – but if I do, then maybe I will want to say a bit more about the ways in which my parents’ relationship with one another impacted on me in later years.
My father was a military judge, and my mother was a psychiatric social worker. My brother and sister and I were moved around constantly, in and outside the U.S., living in Germany for much of our teens.
I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I’ve loved trainers since my youth – limited edition, vintage, whatever. You could recognise people and judge their character through their trainers. I’m a Nike man.
I had – in my early 20s and late teens, I had adopted this idea that I was the future face. And that was in large part due to this Time Magazine cover from 1993 that proclaimed the future face of America.
The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.
In my early teens, I started collecting soundtrack albums.
At the end of the day, most parents have more in common with their teens than they realize. Let’s retire the bootstrap mentality and stop telling our teens that their stress is self-imposed.
Teens are strange and magical.
Even though I’ve been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance – I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I’ve had little or no contact with its denizens.
I just think people are so used to seeing me on shows like ‘Vampire Diaries’ and ‘Pretty Little Liars,’ which are more geared toward teens. But in reality, I could have a 12-year-old kid.
But when I got into my teens, I didn’t have money. And then, getting into my early 20s, I still didn’t have money. And charity shops would be a great place for me to get cheap clothes.
My kids probably started drinking coffee in their late teens.
My father’s Alfred Newman – born in 1900, child prodigy at the piano, ended up in pit orchestras in the teens. I think he’s one of the youngest conductors to conduct Broadway and worked with George Gershwin and Jerome Kern and Cole Porter – went out with Irvin Berlin in 1930 to Hollywood and never left.
The way people communicate is changing, and no one knows this better than teens. We are using images to talk to each other, to communicate what we’re doing, what we’re thinking, and to tell stories.
Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.
A lot of what the ‘Culture’ is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
I always loved acting – though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn’t sure about doing it professionally.
I was never considered cool throughout my teens: a very important time to be accepted by someone, especially your peers. Yes, I had all the screaming women, but the guys hated my guts.
The only place I’m recognized is at the mall, because that’s where the teens are.
It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger – that was harder for many years in my teens. But now I’ve conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it.
During my ‘difficult teens,’ I read about worlds that were mysterious.
Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed ‘evils’ of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens.
Learning to cook at school gave me the confidence to experiment in the kitchen when I left home in my late teens – I wasn’t intimidated by it.
It’s almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when ‘The Magic Barrel’ was published and I first read it.
I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids’ TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids’ show, but onstage in a bar, so it’s sort of poking fun at the kids’ show. And I was obsessed with that, and then ‘Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.’
One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.
Ultimately, criticism that ‘The Real World’ has devolved into a lesser enterprise comes from the viewers who came of age alongside it, not the teens of the moment that MTV has always existed for.
I was fascinated by ‘The Lord of the Rings’ from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.
Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.
In my teens and university and stuff, video games became more realistic, or they started to.
The thing that I find interesting about teens now is that no matter how desperate we seem to be taxonomically ‘othering’ them, for one reason or another – because the Internet, because whatever – I feel like a lot of the benchmarks and the experiences are, you know, same for teens through time immemorial.
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.
The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I’ve performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.
The man the world knew as Billy Graham was always ‘Daddy’ to me. I was well into my teens before I fully comprehended that my father had a household name and a worldwide ministry.
The ‘Classics Illustrated’ series was an excellent primer in literature, and I also really enjoyed Zachary Hamby’s mythology books for teens.
I inherited my weight problem from my mum. She was always on diets. If there was a box of chocolates in the house, she’d eat half a chocolate, then put the other half back. She loved me, but she did encourage me to diet in my teens.
The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.
Maybe something that’s acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.
I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.
Teens in the ’90s had the same basic desires as they do now.
