Teenager Quotes - Page 36

• I feel like a teenager myself, so I appreciate it when the kids think you're all right.

  John C. Reilly

  Kids, Thinking, Appreciate

  "John C. Reilly, with Jake Kasdan". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. December 25, 2007.

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• When I think of 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' there was a warmth to those teenagers that I related to. They were not aware that they were in the middle of a horror film, and I really loved those characters and I empathized with them.

  Jason Reitman

  Character, Thinking, Nightmare

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• As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'

  Christina Ricci

  Rejection, Healthy, Needs

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• When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.

  Christina Ricci

  Girl, Men, Littles

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• Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

  Alan Rickman

  People, Quests, Want

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• I think as you get older, you tend to think of teenagers as really young.

  Emma Roberts

  Thinking, Young

  "Emma Roberts and Freddie Highmore on Their New Film, Summer Reading, and Teen Lushes". Interview with S.T. VanAirsdale, movieline.com. June 16, 2011.

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• I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.

  Julia Roberts

  Thinking, Literature, Enough

  "Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts Interview LARRY CROWNE". collider.com. June 28, 2011.

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• I know what it's like to finish the laundry and to look in the basket five minutes later and it's full again. I know what it's like to pull all the groceries in, and see the teenagers run through, and all of a sudden, all of the groceries you just bought a few hours ago are gone.

  Ann Romney

  Running, Looks, Gone

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• I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Laughing, Firsts

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• I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Teenage, Thinking, Fit

  Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. May 10, 2005.

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• Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

  Gore Vidal

  Business, Adults, Literature

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• My house is a bit like a teenager's bedroom. The kind of pictures you have hanging up on your wall say a lot about you. I've got ones of Evel Knievel, Elvis and Starsky and Hutch, signed by David Soul.

  Tim Vine

  Wall, House, Soul

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• Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Inspirational, Education, Ignorance

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut. Chapter 124: Frank's Ant Farm, 1963.

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• The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Average, People, Care

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• 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.

  Christopher Walken

  Musical, Actors, World

  "Christopher Walken Interview - HAIRSPRAY" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 8, 2007.

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• I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Loner, Events, Social

  "Mia Wasikowska: 'There's a common misconception that the loud kid in the class is the actor" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2011.

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• My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Husband, Father, House

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• The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.

  Florence Welch

  Teenage, Cancer, Caring

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• When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.

  Florence Welch

  Red, Rooms, Next

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• 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.

  Joss Whedon

  School, Men, Care

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2001.

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• I was a handful growing up.

  Olivia Wilde

  Growing Up, Growing, Handful

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• Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

  Earl Wilson

  Inspirational, Ice And Snow, Long

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• We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

  Rainn Wilson

  Islands, Long, People

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• Teenagers are like atoms when they're moving at hundreds of miles an hour and bouncing off each other. Everybody's got such a crazy hormonal drive and reacting to each other differently and getting upset over little things. High school puts all these potential explosions in one place.

  Anton Yelchin

  Crazy, Moving, School

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• As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.

  Julian Baggini

  Answers, Found

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