#teenager

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb! ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#dumb #especially #hollywood #idea #movies

Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager. ↗

— Corey Hart

#lonely #me #music #oxygen #really

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#become #college #doctors #graduates #high

you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can’t trust anyone anymore, because they’re all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how was before… ↗

— Ned Vizzini

#it-s-kind-of-a-funny-story #judgement #teenagers #truth #funny

At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers! ↗

— John Hughes

#came #either #gross #had #hollywood

I've probably wanted to be a rapper since I was a teenager. I was an actor and comedian and stuff, but I always wanted to rap, it was another outlet. ↗

— Jamie Kennedy

#always #another #comedian #i #i always

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

— Mary Cheney

#lot #models #role #role models #teenagers

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

— Mindy Cohn

#go #more #movie #movies #rent

I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths. ↗

— John Cusack

#hearing #hip #hughes #i #john

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. ↗

— Caroline Dhavernas

#actually #bad #characters #completely #control