Me Quotes

Sometimes people come up to me and say, 'You were my teen crush.' I'm honored and I'm touched, but I also ask, 'What happened? Why'd you take the poster down?' I get a little heartbroken in that situation.

~ Christian Slater

I think if you ask people why they watch me, there would be some common thread among all of them that I'm somewhat of an awkward older sister. I have a teen, mostly female demographic. How that happened, I don't know. But I think they see me as some sort of bizarre role model, and I'll keep trying to do that for them.

~ Grace Helbig

I won Miss Teen World, and then a movie rep saw me on the pageant website and thought that I had the perfect image for the role in 'Madrasapattinam.'

~ Amy Jackson

I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grades and school. That comes first. My mother always told me that came first.

~ Tyra Banks

People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired.

~ Laura Dern

People still come up to me and say, 'Hey, 'Teen Wolf!' 'Teen Wolf Too' closed a week after it opened. Where did they see it?

~ Jason Bateman

I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.

~ Ellie Goulding

Costumes say a lot about a character. When it came to 'Palo Alto,' it was important for me that the kids didn't look perfect. In most teen movies today, all of the clothes are expensive. I remember wearing a lot of dirty vintage clothes.

~ Gia Coppola

All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.

~ David Cassidy

Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they were constantly discussing your second year of college. I'm not back there anymore. I'm living in the present.

~ David Cassidy

I hate it when people call me a teen queen.

~ Lindsay Lohan

I've always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' 'Here we are now/Entertain us' - the irony, the antagonism; that's always stuck with me.

~ Corey Taylor

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

~ Rick Springfield

People don't know the real me. The hard times I went through are what led me to my life now. I was a mess as a teen! I was kind of wild and really unhappy.

~ Kristin Cavallari

Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it.

~ Willie Aames

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

I went on an audition once for a show, and the feedback was to play an angry teen. My agent convinced me to try out. I was really bitter for a while, because it sucks when you don't get good scripts after working on good quality.

~ Alia Shawkat

The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.

~ Lorde

How the original 'Cosmos' affected me personally was long-term. I wasn't born early enough to see the original series, but after getting a hold of it in my teen years, it was one of the driving forces behind my passion for science.

~ Kyle Hill

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

~ Constance Baker Motley

The eight months I took off between 'Teen Vogue' and 'Lucky' afforded me such amazing opportunities, and I learned so much from so many different people - the brands that I worked with, the companies that I was consulting for.

~ Eva Chen

I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.

~ Sara Zarr

I don't know if this is too weird to say, but this is completely surreal for me. Bizarre. The cover of 'Teen Vogue' has been on my bucket list forever.

~ Lily Collins

When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.

~ Max Brooks

Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I mean, I've kinda gotten over, I guess I'm saying, the fact that I had trouble getting a date for the prom.

~ Matthew Tobin Anderson

I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.

~ Cecily Von Ziegesar

I can have a song with Ariana Grande that is going to be the song for all the kids and the teen girls, and then another song that could be for a different group of people who all love the song. I'm with whoever. Whatever type of people want to love the music and whatever they love about the music is fine with me.

~ Mac Miller

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

~ Leelee Sobieski

To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.

~ Curtis Armstrong

Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.

~ Lukas Haas

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 me for the second half of the season.

~ Adelaide Kane

I pass on a lot of teen roles that get sent to me because a lot of the time it doesn't feel real. It's sugar-coated. There's no depth to it.

~ Dylan Minnette

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

~ Ally Condie

I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.

~ Seth Gabel

My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

~ Carolyn Mackler

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

~ Elvis Presley

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music comes to me more readily than words.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.

~ Damon Albarn

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

~ Quentin Tarantino