When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn't have taken myself seriously.
I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.
They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
The best thing I can say about 'Teen Wolf Too' is that it's the only time anyone ever referred to me as Preston Sturges. Leonard Maltin wrote that 'Teen Wolf Too' made 'Teen Wolf' look like Preston Sturges. I've always prided myself on that.
All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.
I was a teen idol in Latin America.
I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.
It's hard to feel like a teen idol.
Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life
I became a teen idol. At the time, it embarrassed me.
Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.
Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.
I guess I never took my fame as a teen idol too seriously.
On 'Best Week Ever,' I met a few previous 'Idol' winners, and they were the nicest young people you'd ever want to meet. It is a tribute to them that they emerged from 'Idol's' cynicism factory seemingly without mercury poisoning of the soul.
I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.
I don't think I was ever...trying to kill myself but I knew that if I'd ever gone too far...I wouldn't care.