In terms of Ray Liotta, when I was a teenager growing up in Colorado, I didn’t have pictures of girls on my wall. I had pictures of Ray Liotta on my wall. Along with Mike Patton, he was one of my heroes.
I am like any typical teenager.
I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies’ man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn’t like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential ‘God, I exist, and nobody cares’ of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me.
I’m not a blood and guts person. I remember seeing ‘House of Wax’ as a teenager in 3D. This was years ago, the original ‘House of Wax’, and that was scary enough for me that I thought I’d never see another one.
Before holding elective office – 12 years in the Wyoming House of Representatives and 18 years in the U.S. Senate – I served a different type of time. I was on probation for a federal offense committed as a teenager.
I joined an amateur drama group as a teenager, fell in love with theatre, and it totally changed my life.
David Bowie – I definitely knew some of his music as a teenager, but I didn’t actually listen to his music as much until I was in my 20s.
I’ve always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved ‘Helter Skelter’ and books like that.
I was so busy with my studies that I didn’t have a musical idol as a teenager. Later, around my 20s, I suddenly discovered the Beatles and the Rolling Stones but I guess my musical idol has always been Strauss.
Chantelle Brown-Young is my real name. Winnie is my nickname that I was given as a teenager, and it has stuck with me. I’ve combined my real name and my nick name to create ‘Chantelle Winnie.’ My alter ego, where I seek confidence when I model, is ‘Winnie Harlow.’
As a teenager, I played men in my first two plays.
Even when I was on the football pitch as a teenager, I wanted to be the teacher.
Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.
Well, my mom is Japanese. She moved to the U.S. when she was a teenager. And so, her food is – she did all of the cooking at home for the most part.
The year 1989 was crucial for me because I had just moved from the country into Sydney to play first-class cricket. That was the time I heard of a teenager called Sachin Tendulkar, who had burst on to the scene and was being annointed as successor to the great Sunil Gavaskar.
I never ran away, but I was very unhappy as a teenager. I felt like a complete nonentity, and I very tangibly have memories of not wanting to be here – in my body.
I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious.
There’s a competitive grief atmosphere in acting classes. Like, whoever has the biggest trauma is sort of like the winner of the day today or gets the A+. That, I could identify with from when I sort of dabbled with method acting classes when I was a teenager.
As a kid, I loved the whimsical Superman and Batman stuff, and as a teenager, Marvel was more angsty, and that appealed to me. Marvel dealt with more stuff I could relate to as a teenager.
I’ve known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager.
Justin Hayward was a teenager when he was drafted into the Moody Blues in 1966. He brought with him one song he had written for his girlfriend. This was called ‘Nights in White Satin,’ which subsequently made a fortune for a lot of people.
I like stand-up. I’ve done it since I was a teenager, so it’s kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.
As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.
Ever since I was a teenager, I always had a very strong sense of my own personal style. Kind of for better or for worse – actually I don’t think it’s ever been for worse. The way that I dress has always been a pretty accurate reflection of my personality and my life.
And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So imagine, if you will, being 6 feet tall by third grade, so essentially being a living maypole.
I’d been acting since I was a teenager. I’d come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.
The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
When I was 13, I moved to Los Angeles to pursue television and film roles. I booked shows like ‘The Secret Life of the American Teenager,’ ‘Liv and Maddie,’ and ‘Teen Wolf.’
I was exceptionally opinionated as a teenager, never afraid to rant and ruin a birthday party or cinema trip.
Being a teenager is chaotic because you’re kind of coming into your own, but you’re not an adult; you’re fighting with your parents over responsibilities and freedom.
For me, cinema is very important. I grew up with television; then, as a teenager, you discover cinema.
I’ve been a member of Greenpeace since I was a teenager.
Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.
I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.
A South Korean teenager, 18-year-old male, is about five inches taller than his North Korean counterpart. And there are many soldiers who are only about 4’6″. The height requirement is supposed to be 4’9″. That’s the size of my 12-year-old son.
I was a really pretentious teenager.
On the song ‘Dangerous,’ it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.
When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I was certainly not voted ‘Most Literary Boy.’ I can assure you I was not voted ‘Mostly Likely to Succeed.’ I was voted ‘Most Musical Boy.’ And the music led to the poetry.
My father was a director, and my mother and grandparents were actors, so I spent a great deal of my time as a teenager trying to get away from the theatre.
In ‘A Likely Story,’ I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.
My favourite feature is my hair. It has always made me look different. It was so red when I was born that my mother thought I had blood on my head. When I was a teenager, I looked like a tomboy, but then I understood that I could be a woman who was an intelligent mix between a lady and my mannish side.
I haven’t seen my face since I started growing my beard, which was when I was a teenager, almost; I never shaved. So I don’t really know what I look like.
I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I’d always been in that world to some extent.
As a young ma,n I was an absolute idiot. I think my exes would say I was a likeable baby. I had a teenager’s bedroom when I was 32.
If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it’s OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.
I was a child in the ’60s and a teenager in the ’70s, which was the golden age of film as far as I’m concerned, between American film and the Italian reinvention of genre film.
As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.
Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there’s so much more to being a teenager than just boys.
It’s every teenager’s dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.
I didn’t go abroad until quite late. A friend drove us to Amalfi, Italy, for his sister’s wedding when I was a teenager. It was exciting driving through Europe.
When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.
I have struggled with anxiety and depression since I was a teenager.
When you were a teenager, everything’s kind of drawn in primary colors; everything’s big, and everything’s life or death.
I don’t think I gave my mom too much trouble as a teenager.
‘Lunch Hour’ is suitable for a teenager.
I definitely did look back into the past when I was a teenager for transgender icons, like a famous model called Tula in the 1970s-’80s who starred as a ‘Bond’ girl.
In a way, I’m lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I’m just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
We were very poor, and I entered a talent contest as a young teenager because if you entered, even if you didn’t win, they gave you a free blouse.
I’m no actor. And I wasn’t like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw ‘The Graduate’ I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told.
America has always had tinkerers, including just about any teenager who ever hot-rodded a Camaro.
