Top 242 Teenage Quotes

When ‘Dare Me’ was first in development, it was hard to make the case for why it’d be interesting to anybody other than teenage girls. It’d often be treated, like, on first glance, ‘What is this? ‘Pretty Little Liars?’ ‘Mean Girls?” It never was that.

I want to make sure that teenage girls know that if you decide to keep your child, you have to get an education. You have to have a plan A, B, and C. Make sure you have a good support system. If all those things are not in place, it’s going to be very, very hard – very, very lonely.

I’ve probably cried with a lot of songs – in teenage crushes, adult crushes.

I’m a visual writer, so it’s fitting that my first brush with ‘Red Queen’ was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like ‘Gladiator,’ and she’s about to be executed. But instead of being killed, she kills her executioner with lightning.

Oh, there’s a teenage girl inside all women. It comes out mainly when we walk into a room filled with other women and immediately feel self-conscious. I do, anyway. I’m always convinced I’m going to fall flat on my face or something.

I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can’t do it, I’m gonna do it. But I’m pretty good. That’s why it was fun to play Sam in ‘The Bling Ring.’ I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.

As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.

When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.

I grew up having all the Dolce & Gabbana campaigns on the walls of my teenage bedroom, and I was dreaming of one day being a model.

I’m a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids’ parties. I can still perform a vanish, credibly, and I still, in special circumstances, will make a balloon animal.

I once got asked in an interview: ‘Does it annoy you that the majority of your fans are teenage girls?’ I was insulted and angry because it was sexist and ageist.

I don’t really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

An entire empire built on teenage angst, yes? Thank you, John Hughes!

I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.

I’m doing ‘I Hate My Teenage Daughter’ with Katie Finneran and Jaime Pressly.

I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we’re back in an earlier moment.

I’d begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

‘Teenage Dream’ was the hardest breakup for me.

I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, ‘I’m America’s greatest living teenage poet.’

Crushes start out as that teenage phenomenon, life-affirming and cute, but as you wander into adulthood, they seem to end up more painful, harrowing, and uncertain, especially if you have just come out of the relationship you thought would finally, maybe, maybe be the one that stuck.

I write simple songs, and people like that. They’re mature enough to appeal to people who aren’t teenage girls. Most of my fans are older, and it’s nice to think the songs can appeal to middle-aged men and women.

I might once have had a pair of jeans briefly in my teenage years before I realised they weren’t for me. I don’t love my legs but, hey, they’re mine, so I accept them.

Yeah, ‘Feed the Dog’ is just a really fun, teenage movie with Nat Wolff and Selena Gomez and all these other great people. It’s just so silly-funny, and my character’s super-fun.

I wrote ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ when I began to read about the growing trend in teenage mental illness. I wanted to understand the psychology behind it because it was foreign to me.

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

‘Virgin Suicides’ was such a big movie to me as a teenage girl. It blew me away.

I think I have to laugh about the fact that I grew up in public. All these weird stages in my teenage years are documented. Why did no one tell me how terrible some of those outfits were?

Vanity’s really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall… I don’t need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am.

Comedy helped me out in my teenage years. It saw me through puberty and helped me to deal with dating.

I used to get very angry as I was getting older, because my voice was breaking. So I’ve trained my voice so religiously through my teenage years, because I wanted to be able to hit the notes that those females hit. And I can, which is great.

The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.

Tina Fey, a performer and head writer for ‘Saturday Night Live,’ has deftly adapted Rosalind Wiseman’s nonfiction dissection of teenage girl societal interaction, ‘Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence.’

My daughter wasn’t into that type of rock music and kind of played it off. But then these teenage boys started coming around, and Led Zeppelin, I don’t know, it became reinvented. Now she’s very proud of her grandfather.

I watch stuff from all around the world. We all grow up watching American TV, so the idea that I might have teenage American girls watching my show is kind of funny!

I was watching ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’ – the episode where Sabrina and her friend make a vampire movie for college. I wanted to see if it would be fun to make a horror movie.

No, I always hated modeling. I developed an early hatred of modeling just from having to do it; having won Miss Teenage Memphis, I had to model, and I hated it. It bored me.

The first time someone asked us for an autograph was the moment we realized we were doing something that most people spend their teenage years dreaming about, for sure.

I think it’s really hard for teenage girls in London to just gently… have a life. Everything has to be organised for kids in London – you can’t just walk three roads to see a friend.

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.

There are very few things that I love more than being on stage and performing, but more than anything, I want to be a positive role model for teenage girls.

I’ve always had a teenage thread running through my music. On my first album, I had a song called ‘Confessions of a Teenage Girl.’ It’s about using your feminine wealth to get what you want.

I went through my rebellious phase, not in my teenage years, but around age 12. The year I decided I didn’t want to do entertainment anymore, I was discovered. And I couldn’t back down from that.

There’s a lot of little ‘Bonnie-isms’ in ‘Teenage Dream’ that I was hoping to keep for myself.

I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years – ‘I am buying these records, I am wearing this’. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair.

When I was around 16 or 17, I got asked to model, but because I was very ‘tomboy’ at the time, I wasn’t interested. But then I had a bit of teenage rebellion, and I saw modeling as an opportunity to get away from school and parents, so I thought, ‘OK, maybe I will be a model.’

It would be amazing to write a song that could be sung 100 years from now by a teenage girl and still be relevant to her – that’s a dream of songwriting, maybe.

I was not tormented in any way; I was never even bullied. I had a nice teenage life.

Parents ought to try to learn the language teenagers speak, and they ought to listen to teenage music.

Edgy’ music has always formed the cornerstone to any teenage rebellion. Most indulge in it precisely because adults like me don’t like them doing so.

It’s one of those weird things you start doing: you get to have on-screen teenage children and play policemen. That’s what happens to you when you hit 40.

I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.

It’s funny: I always, as a high school teacher and particularly as a high school yearbook teacher, because yearbook staffs are 90 percent female, I got to sit in and overhear teenage girl talk for many years. I like teenage girls; I like their drama, their foibles. And I think, ‘I’ll be good with a teenage daughter!’