When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
‐‐ Morgan Freeman
When I was a teenager, I continued to visit imaginary places by spending all my free time at our local community theater. Whether I acted in a play or worked backstage, the world of Tennessee Williams or Shakespeare always seemed more real to me than the dreary life of high school.
‐‐ Mary Pope Osborne
When I was a teenager, I did a lot of pull-ups and push-ups. Every night before bed, I'd do 150 - in sets of 30 or so. Looking back on it now, I'm not totally sure that's the best way to improve as a climber. But it did make me a lot better at doing pull-ups and push-ups.
‐‐ Alex Honnold
When I was a teenager, I did one animated series back when I was on 'General Hospital.' It was 1971 or '72. Then I didn't do animation until 'Batman.'
‐‐ Mark Hamill
When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.
‐‐ George Stephen
When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'
‐‐ Imelda May
When I was a teenager, I had pimples - oh, God, every time someone looked at my face I thought they were looking at my pimples. I put mud on my face to dry them out, and it worked.
‐‐ Gisele Bundchen
When I was a teenager I hated having Bloomberg as a last name and being seen simply as someone's daughter. I used to shy away from it in every way. As I got older, I began to realize that it was something I could use to make a difference in the causes I cared about. I learned to be proud of my last name.
‐‐ Georgina Bloomberg
When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps
When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing. When I moved to New York, I started to realize that I wanted people to see the stuff that I was doing, and I wanted it to mean something to them.
‐‐ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.
‐‐ Melanie Mayron
When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions.
‐‐ Robert Krulwich
When I was a teenager, I met a comedian who I admired, and he was very rude to me. That's why when people come up to me I try not to be rude. I don't want to name who he is, but it really put me off watching his stuff since.
‐‐ Stephen Merchant
When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.
‐‐ Dario Argento
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.
‐‐ Ian Anderson
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.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami
When I was a teenager, I thought maybe I'll be a filmmaker, making film documentaries. My dream when I was a girl was I would be hired by 'National Geographic' or work with David Attenborough, but it didn't happen. I became a model.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini
When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.
‐‐ Audrey Tautou
When I was a teenager, I used to love the Bronte books, 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre.' In those books, the women do usually manage to heal the men, but in life, I've found it's often the woman gets wounded. Instead of healing a man, she gets affected by his cruelty.
‐‐ Jocelyn Moorhouse
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as a portrait painter I wouldn't be able to support a goldfish.
‐‐ Fred Gwynne
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my own terms.
‐‐ Iwan Rheon
When I was a teenager, I was a huge computer nerd. I went to computer programming camp. I went to space camp.
‐‐ Graham Moore
When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.
‐‐ Colin Wilson
When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
‐‐ Adam DeVine
When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.
‐‐ Gloria Estefan
When I was a teenager, I was like, 'Something is wrong with me. I don't fit in. I'm not like everybody else.' So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened.
‐‐ Noomi Rapace
When I was a teenager, I was really into hair; I dyed it different colours and had loads of haircuts. I shaved my head when I was 17 - it was pretty radical!
‐‐ Chloe Sevigny
When I was a teenager, I went on an organised three-day tour of Rome. It was the worst experience ever. I promised myself that I would never travel like that again, with someone telling you what to see and what not to see.
‐‐ Diego Luna
When I was a teenager, I went to Europe on a backpacking trip by myself, and I met a woman who was following Sebadoh. It was the early 1990s, and that was my introduction to indie rock.
‐‐ Jenny Lewis
When I was a teenager, I worked at the Gap for a summer folding shirts. That was pretty mindless and soul-sucking.
‐‐ Constance Wu
When I was a teenager, I worked in New Orleans for a chef named Paul Prudhomme. That was a very important time in my life as a chef. I developed my palate and learned a lot. And here I am now. I specialize in modern Mexican and contemporary Latin cuisines.
‐‐ Aaron Sanchez
When I was a teenager, I would have tried anything that an actress I liked was doing to get thin.
‐‐ Anne Hathaway
When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.
‐‐ Beth Ditto
When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job.
‐‐ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.
‐‐ Aleksa Palladino
When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
‐‐ Bjork
When I was a teenager in Milwaukee in the 1980s, life was pretty boring, and I found myself riveted by the sheer melodrama of everyday life of the 1960s.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand
When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.
‐‐ Steve Vai
When I was a teenager in the late 30's and early 40's, electronics wasn't a word. You were interested in radio if you were interested in electronics.
‐‐ Ken Olsen
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.
‐‐ Robert Pinsky
When I was a teenager, me and a couple of my friends entered a couple of modeling competitions just for fun, and one of those got me an agent in Sydney.
‐‐ Abbie Cornish
When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour.
‐‐ Taylor Swift
When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.
‐‐ Michael Weatherly
When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.
‐‐ Dolph Lundgren
When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living.
‐‐ Nick Park
When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street.
‐‐ Jo Nesbo
When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
‐‐ Ferran Adria
When I was a teenager, my parents made me take a part-time job at the local Black Eyed Pea, which was a home-cooked-food family restaurant.
‐‐ Ashley Jones
When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me.
‐‐ Chester Brown
When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
‐‐ Malorie Blackman
When I was a teenager, science meshed with my developing ideals - such as the challenge to authority that was central to punk rock. In science, anyone from any walk of life could make a discovery that would overturn prevailing hypotheses. And that was a cause for celebration among scientists.
‐‐ Greg Graffin
When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rumble Fish' on my 16th birthday, and around the same time, it was 'Falcon and the Snowman' and 'Bad Boys' from Sean Penn.
‐‐ Aidan Gillen
When I was a teenager, the biggest heartthrob was Tab Hunter. He was in every movie out of Warner Bros. until he was exposed as gay, and his career faded. That was an object lesson. I knew I must protect my sexual orientation.
‐‐ George Takei
When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
‐‐ Rachel Cohn
When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.
‐‐ Guillermo del Toro
When I was a teenager, what I most wanted to read were fantasy novels. Not Tolkien and Malory, but sword-and-sorcery pulp. I craved glowy blue magic, chainmail bikinis, dragons with unpronounceable names.
‐‐ Eliot Schrefer
When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation that you could find straight pants again.
‐‐ Denis Leary
When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang.
‐‐ Doris Day
When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
‐‐ Erica Jong
When I was a tiny tot, we only had one record player in the house, so there was either Genesis on it or the Jungle Book or The Beatles as well, and various other things.
‐‐ Rick Astley
When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.
‐‐ John Travolta
When I was a very young actor, I cruised around in a pretty cool vehicle called the Starship Enterprise.
‐‐ George Takei
When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're a hunter, and build towers to watch the animals move. I knew I would never understand the world without that perspective. I came to Africa for that rational reason, although I love Mozambique now.
‐‐ Henning Mankell
When I was a vocalist, a lead singer in a rock band, I was a law student at the time. It wasn't a professional rock band, it was for fun. I was already way out of that by the time Phantom came along. Having to learn to sing, it was such duress, having to really try and get to such a quality.
‐‐ Gerard Butler
When I was a waiter, I wanted to be the best waiter I could be and worked to be better at it every day.
‐‐ Robert Herjavec