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All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.

More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image.

It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers.

The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life.

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.