Johnny Depp Quotes

Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.

I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.

When you're 13, you're still trying to figure out your style.

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

High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.

It's fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated.

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.

It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there.

When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll become the opposite of that, especially if I'm parked outside a high school party.

When I had a kid and I went through my drama and situation, I respected my father more because it kinda made me understand what he went through with me.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

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!

I've been very surprised by people asking me what my teenage experience was like.

I remember the kind of teenager I was, the kind of teenager I wanted to be, and then the kind of teenagers that were all around me. Life is lived on such a big scale in those years - and such an embarrassing one as well.

I think a handful of the roles that I've gotten to play are characters whom I've lived that are like younger versions of me but who are maybe more naive and a little bit wilder than when I was. And I've gotten to play 16 and 17 when I was a little bit older, so I got to pull from experience.

What can you know about life at 14? I have learned a lot since, but you learn slowly. You get hit by many things and try to make sense of it.