18 Movie Quotes about Adolescence (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 19, 2025

Memorable quotes about adolescence, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Puberty can often be a confusing time for a young adolescent flowering into manhood.

Baymax in Big Hero 6

2 Your teenage minds are broad, eager.

Kevin Clash as Splinter in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

3 Now you can see why all his friends are 14 years old.

Quote from TRON (1982)

4 It's all right. The sea of raging hormones has ebbed.

Quote from Hercules

5 I don't know, Goof. Somethin's wrong when a kid won't spend time with his parents. Well, for all you know, he's runnin' around with some gang, and stealin' stuff, and causin' riots and...

Jim Cummings as Pete in A Goofy Movie (1995)

6 No, it's just parent stuff. It seems our youngest, Chris, was on something called acid and was firing a bow and arrow into a crowd. You know how kids are.

Fred Willard in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

7 When I was 16, my family threw me out of the house. That makes you very nervous. I mean, a thing like that makes you very touchy. They just kind of gave me up for lost.

Shelley Winters as Dixie Evans in The Big Knife (1955)

8 Seventeen. It doesn't seem to me that you've had time to be guilty of anything much except overeating.

Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

9 Ah, my tenacious teenager, you have a lot to learn.

Julie Newmar as Catwoman in Batman (1966)

10 Now more than ever, put aside your teenage concerns about who's a cool dude, or who's a ho...

Quote from Jennifer's Body