I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years – I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction.
Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it’s the most serious time of your life.
I love my mom so much, and I always have, but I was definitely a monster to her a lot during my teen years.
It’s not hard to get into a teen’s head, because it’s all emotions. Their feelings are amplified; you have no luxury of hindsight. If you haven’t had your heart broken before, you don’t know that you’ll be able to get back up again.
I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
If you were an alien who came to our bookstores – or browsed our teen magazines – you’d think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
I’m not just a child star. And I’m not just someone’s sister. And I’m not just a teen mom.
My first break was becoming a staff writer on the rebooted ‘90210.’ And then I got stuck writing in the teen genre for a while.
I was considered chubby as a teen.
I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.
‘I Think We’re Alone Now’ just makes people feel good. It became a teen anthem twice. How cool is that?
The eighties were my teen years, so the GoGos are sort of a touchstone.
Let us develop an agenda for children that says we can do something about teen pregnancy. Let us make sure that parents are old enough, wise enough, and financially able to take care of their children.
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.
The great thing about interning at ‘Teen Vogue’ is that there is so much room for growth; interns here do incredible things if they work hard enough and think outside the box.
I hate it when people call me a teen queen.
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.
I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don’t want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories!
When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.
I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they’d cast the girl without a line on her face.
Yes, my pageant career was incredibly short. I started at 19 and was done at 21. I started by competing for Miss California Teen, which I wound up winning, and I literally just entered the contest on a whim!
I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she’s only 11, but you know, I think it’s great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music.
When I became a teen, I ran into a friend at a magic shop who took me under his wing. I started reading up on magical theory and immediately blended that with what my brothers had shown me.
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.
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.
