Nicholas Hoult Quotes

When I first saw 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' I thought: That's what my life is like. That's my day-to-day.

'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.

Things have changed a lot since the earth was cooling and I was a teenage girl, but the basics of teenage bedrooms have remained the same. Every girl wants a place that they are proud to call their own and where they can express their own individuality.

I can't think of any shows I've watched about teenagers that has the same spirit that 'Skins' has, the same honesty about it.

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

I didn't used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls.

It sounds so negative of me to say, but I don't feel like there were many coming-of-age films when I was growing up. I think that when I was a teenager, I felt really misrepresented in the teenage roles that I was watching onscreen. Especially in women.

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

Because teenagers don't have adult responsibilities yet, you can create your own drama, and it's a universe of your own emotions.

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.

When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.

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

I knew I wanted to make a movie that hadn't really existed in a while in terms of being a teenager.

My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.'

One of my favorite things about playing Avery Jennings on 'Dog With a Blog' is that I get to play a real teenager who deals with everyday issues.

I think it's really hard for teenage girls in London to just gently... have a life. Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

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.

Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.

I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.

'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.

It was just a fairly normal high school existence, riding our bikes around and hanging out in parks and down in the village.