All Quotes

As a teenage fisherman, I watched and followed terns to find fish. Later, I studied terns for my Ph.D.
‐‐ Carl Safina

As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about who I am and have tried so hard to fit in with everyone else.
‐‐ Kelli Berglund

As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid people could believe it. I actually became an anti-Christian, and very antagonistic.
‐‐ Frederica Mathewes-Green

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.
‐‐ Shawn Ashmore

As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.
‐‐ Kristi Yamaguchi

As a teenager, even as a younger girl, I had some depression but no one really noticed that it was depression nor did I know in those days that that's what it was but I did feel different from other people.
‐‐ Linda Hamilton

As a teenager, I developed a great interest in not only horse breeding but also horse racing and used to bet based on red-hot tips. I realized that becoming a bookmaker would be very lucrative, but Dad put his foot down, saying it was an inappropriate career.
‐‐ Cyrus S. Poonawalla

As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.
‐‐ Marion Cotillard

As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
‐‐ Queen Latifah

As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.
‐‐ Natasha Bedingfield

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.
‐‐ Peter Snell

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

As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
‐‐ Veronica Roth

As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and global diseases, and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to write stories that showed people these problems and that we could do something about them.'
‐‐ Jeffrey Skoll

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.
‐‐ Buffy Sainte-Marie

As a teenager, I used to travel everywhere with my guitar. I appreciated the fact it was with me, but it was always an absolute pain to carry around - even though, in those days, you could take in on a plane as hand luggage.
‐‐ Greg Wise

As a teenager, I used to use the nickname 'Moo' as a moniker online, and then I turned into 'Moot' for fun, which I didn't even realize was a real word at the time, and it just stuck with me.
‐‐ Christopher Poole

As a teenager, I wanted to be sophisticated and avant-garde, and I was really judgmental. But when you're a teenager, you're fearless because you don't know the repercussions to anything.
‐‐ Gia Coppola

As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.
‐‐ Victoria Pendleton

As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.
‐‐ Mark Haddon

As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.
‐‐ Lena Headey

As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.
‐‐ Clive Owen

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.
‐‐ Anthony Minghella

As a teenager, I was perpetually grounded. I was stubborn rather than rebellious.
‐‐ Bryce Dallas Howard

As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater.
‐‐ Sarah Gavron

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
‐‐ Johnny Depp

As a teenager, I was teased at school about my height and long legs, but now they are my best assets. Kids can be mean. When I was at school, I considered myself ugly, but that was when I was silly enough to believe that what other people thought mattered. Now I think I am pretty. I'm not beautiful. There is a difference.
‐‐ Jasmine Guinness

As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn't achieving enough.
‐‐ Mia Wasikowska

As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.
‐‐ Melissa McCarthy

As a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it's a long, long way from England. Which is why, when we bought Necker Island, we made it like a mini Bali.
‐‐ Richard Branson

As a teenager, I would wear Clarks, corduroy pants and striped shirts, and I loved it.
‐‐ Domenico Dolce

As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

As a teenager, in my songbook, I used to script what my lighting would be like. I used to dance in my roo;, it was like putting myself in a trance, and making myself feel good about things, almost like a private ceremony of begging people to like you.
‐‐ Mika

As a teenager, Monica Seles won some historic matches on the tennis court, dominating opponents and filling a room with trophies.
‐‐ Don Yaeger

As a teenager, my blackness was also questioned by some of the life choices I made that weren't considered to be 'black' choices. For example, joining the swim team when it is a known fact that 'black folk don't swim'; or choosing to become a vegetarian when blacks clearly love chicken.
‐‐ Issa Rae

As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when it was first being built. But I couldn't find anything for me. There seemed to be despair at the possibility of the built environment possessing any imagination in the real world.
‐‐ Thomas Heatherwick

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

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
‐‐ Karen Finerman

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
‐‐ Fran Lebowitz

As a teenager, you are still entirely wrapped up in yourself.
‐‐ Jane Green

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.
‐‐ Eric McCormack

As a television producer, you do a lot of writing - drafting proposals for pilot shows and other things, so yes, a good deal of writing was involved.
‐‐ Simon Toyne

As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.
‐‐ Rafael Nadal

As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.
‐‐ Stanislas Wawrinka

As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.
‐‐ Troy Polamalu

As a test cricket lover, and as a cricket lover, I like all forms of the game.
‐‐ Cyrus Broacha

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
‐‐ Maggie Siff

As a theist I believe that God exists and that God creates.
‐‐ Phillip E. Johnson

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.
‐‐ Murray Gell-Mann