Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else.
The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.
Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.
Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.
Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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.
I didn't know what was going to happen with 'Teen Wolf.' I was only scheduled to do four episodes for them, but they kept me on, and I was like, 'Sweet! I'm still employed! That's awesome!' And then, they let me know that they were considering having...
In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.
As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.
During my teen years, I was real emotional. I could be really up or down.
The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.
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 but...
Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.
Everybody is a teenage idol.
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, 'It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.'
Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
