Khalid Quotes

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'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

I was just 13 when 'The Big Chill' was released in late September 1983, so I didn't catch all of its nuances when I sneaked into the theater to see it. But I could tell one thing for sure: These people were grown-ups.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.

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

I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.

Adapting a Judy Blume book is something I really wanted to do, and you couldn't grow up in the '90s without knowing about 'Tiger Eyes' and reading it. It should've been assigned to all teenage girls.

Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.'

I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you.

For 'Prom,' if I had missed high school, I don't think it would come off as real.

I did not have the moments of so-called normal people during adolescence, like going out with friends, enjoying good times.

I just wanted to do the things that all normal teenagers wanted to do. So I did become quite rebellious.

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

It's always a really great feeling when I talk to people who watched 'Jett Jackson' because we were the same age. We were all kids. I was 13 when I started working on that show, and that was part of my childhood.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

People love teen movies because everyone can relate.