Teen - Quotes & Sayings

If you're interested in a 'Teen Vogue' internship, take note: it's not all fun and games! Working at a magazine requires a ton of energy and endurance from its interns and editors alike.

Emily Weiss

I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don't want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories!

Dee Rees

Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was invented.

Mary H.K. Choi

I love Deathstroke! I was 12 in 1980 when Deathstroke appeared in 'Teen Titans' #2.

Rob Liefeld

Clothes are like a suit of armour when you're young. I was quite a shy teen, so I wanted to make aggressive statements with the way I looked. I'd say my goth/indie stage was the worst: there was a lot of experimentation involving pink food dye in my fringe.

Erin O'Connor

When it's my time to go, I'll go, but the only time that's going to be for 'Teen Mom' is when the network takes it off the air.

Farrah Abraham

I've always enjoyed teen characters, and kids as well. For whatever reason, I seem to have an ability to do it sort of well, and I enjoy doing it.

Jeff Lemire

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

Miranda Otto

I was a total metal-head as a teen. I still love it, too.

Kristian Nairn

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.

Kim Gordon

Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits, of adolescents trying on various selves.

Sandra Tsing Loh

I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.

Nancy Werlin

It's only shocking to the uninitiated that 'Teen Vogue' would have the audacity to be political and style-focused.

Elaine Welteroth

Trump gets too much credit for 'Teen Vogue''s evolution.

Elaine Welteroth

Even with the beauty stories we put out, we saw there was an opportunity to address issues of representation, identity, self-expression. We created the community that we wanted to have at 'Teen Vogue.' We were willing to lose some to have more.

Elaine Welteroth

'Teen Vogue' fortunately has proved you can have smart, political, and fashionable content delivered in one place, and you don't have to choose.

Elaine Welteroth

As a teen, every major moment was preempted by a torturous, hours-long hair-straightening session. Sleek, silky strands made me feel prettier. And the truth is, I was completely clueless about how to deal with my curls! When they weren't flatironed into submission for special occasions, they were practically glued down with gobs of gel.

Elaine Welteroth

It's fun to sniff and slather on beauty products, but the end goal is finding what appeals most to 'Teen Vogue' readers and reporting on it in the most compelling way.

Elaine Welteroth

When 'Teen Vogue' started out, 'Teen Vogue' was an aspirational fashion magazine for fashion lovers. You know, it was the little sister to 'Vogue.' And over the years, we've realized that our mission was really to become more focused on making this an inclusive community that speaks to every kind of young person.

Elaine Welteroth

I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.

Rachel Zoe

I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment.

Tom Scholz

Like me as a teen - and like many teenagers now - my characters are at a peculiar crossroads in their lives. They desperately seek freedom. But at the same time, they are constantly thwarted.

Sabaa Tahir

I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.

Josh Hartnett

As a kid, I was definitely a DC guy. I started reading big time in the '80s at the height of the Wolfman/Perez 'New Teen Titans.' That was definitely the book that hooked me.

Jason Aaron

Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.

Mal Peet

I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.

Ed Begley, Jr.

I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again.

Alexa Vega

I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

Natasha Lyonne

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

My first encounter with Cyborg was through the 'Teen Titans' cartoon.

Ray Fisher

I didn't know too much about his comic book history. I know that in 'Teen Titans,' he's much more the comedic relief. But after reading the comic book iteration of Cyborg in 'The New Teen Titans' from the 1980s that Marv Wolfman and George Perez had worked on, I saw that there was a lot of texture to the character.

Ray Fisher

I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.

Jamie Bell

Everybody is a teenage idol.

Barry Gibb

I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.

Selma Blair

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

Emily Giffin

I certainly witnessed bullying as a teen in both a small and a big school setting. I feel like it is a universal topic.

Darby Stanchfield

It seems like whenever a big newspaper or TV show talks about teen literature, they focus on dark books or vampire books. It's kind of this cliche. It seems like the only time adults pay attention is with that angle.

Jay Asher

What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow!

Kaui Hart Hemmings

I love telling teen stories where the characters are experiencing things for the first time - the stakes feel really high.

Stephanie Savage

I'll write teen stories as long as people will let me. I'll also be excited for the day when I'm told I can no longer write teen stories.

Stephanie Savage

I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.

Maggie Stiefvater

When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.

Maggie Stiefvater

I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.

David Suchet

I'm not just a child star. And I'm not just someone's sister. And I'm not just a teen mom.

Jamie Lynn Spears

There was never a book, a magazine, a movie, a television show that spoke to my experience as a bicultural teen. I could find a million articles on finding the perfect prom dress or getting the guy of your dreams, but how about 'Ten Sure Fire Steps to Being the Perfect Korean Daughter and Not Be a Freak at Your High School?'

Su-chin Pak

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

Alice Hoffman

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

Nigella Lawson

When I became a teen, I ran into a friend at a magic shop who took me under his wing. I started reading up on magical theory and immediately blended that with what my brothers had shown me.

Apollo Robbins

I got the acting bug really young, when I was around, like, 10. I pretty much just wanted to be Michael J. Fox. He was in 'Teen Wolf' - that was, like, the coolest role, and then he did 'Back to the Future,' and that was the coolest role.

Bryan Greenberg