Sarah Mlynowski Quotes

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

A lot of things haven't changed - clothes and stuff have - but kids keep working after-school jobs and keep getting into terrible trouble in relationships. That's not going to stop.

As I grow up, and knowing that the people who I'm reaching are so young, it for sure changes my perspective on how I want to be perceived.

Sometimes your kids give you that shove out the door to do things that you need. Teenagers are good that way; they keep you in the loop.

I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I went through my teens, with these 'wild abandon' things.

Childhood and adolescence are nothing but milestones: You grow taller, advance to new grades, and get your period, your driver's license, and your diploma. Then, in your 20s and 30s, you romance potential partners, find jobs, and learn to support yourself.

I've often been told that I'm a 30-year-old trapped in a teenager's body. I don't know how I feel about that, but I'll take it, I guess. I'm definitely mature, and I'm the one that takes care of everyone in my friendship group.

I think people find it so easy to write off teenagers and millennials as just being like these shallow, self-centered people who don't have anything real going on and who are always just on their cell phones. But being a teenager is really hard.

It is a gift to be a teenager, and I see a dad's job as lifeguard, not chaperone.

I don't feel like I'm influenced by anybody, but I feel I'm definitely becoming more a leader.

We all have little sisters and cousins who look up to us, and we see what they go through. So we have to be an example. A lot of artists come into this business and they don't see things that way. But as you get older - and now that we also have children - your conscience starts working on you.

I grew up very fast. I was always hanging around with older kids.

I don't think 'Euphoria' can capture the entirety of the teen-in-high-school experience, but I think it is realistic. It's scary in that sense because I don't think we get to see a lot of depictions of high school this raw. I think that truth might scare people.

There are many things that only teenagers can do. Many things that they learn while they are teenagers will become important tools for them after they grow up, and I hope teenagers would make choices that they will not regret in the future.

I'm pretty normal. That's why I feel like I hope most teenagers can relate.

When I was a teenager, I felt my life was constrained by rules, school, my parents. I wanted to feel like I was empowered and different; that's why superheroes, comics, manga, and video games filled my needs. When I got older, I realized power is not free; it comes with responsibility.

I act like a kid, and I feel like I need to grow up a little bit. A little bit. Not too much.

If you're going to become a better person, do it in high school.

As a person, you like to see young men mature.

We do appreciate that we have a very conservative audience and we do try to walk the fine line of that and not offend anybody.

I was pretty immature, and some of it came from just wanting to have fun.

I had to grow up, reach a certain age where I see people do have something to show me.

It always feel like people are doing more grown-up things than you are.

I think when you grow up - and this is a simple thing that I've said numerous times - you should think and act like one.

When the time is right I have a laugh and a joke with my friends on a day off, but I have had to make sacrifices, and in that sense it's been a huge step forward, completely different to how it was before. I was 18 when the manager spoke to me. I realised I'm not like any other teenager. I can't be doing stuff any other 18 or 19-year-old was doing.