Quotes About Youth

I was an annoying schoolboy, always getting into scraps.

When you're a young player, and you're starting to scratch your potential, you don't know how good you can be.

I think I probably had to have been two or three when I fell in love with anything that bounced - any kind of ball that bounced, I was running and screaming after it.

I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.

I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.

When I was young, with my brothers, we'd make movies all the time, and that was never scripted.

In school, I used to write scripts and all that good stuff.

I used to sculpt a bit as a kid.

When you're young and search your name on Twitter to see what everyone is saying about you, which everyone does when you're young... it was one of those things I had to get on with.

I began searching for my confidence on the pitch as a young boy.

Obviously there are times when you don't listen to your parents, when you are looking for something in your life - you're searching. But God has given me faith and helped provide me with the answers that I've needed.

Even when I'm older, I might be in a different head space, but I want to be able to go back to 'True 2 Myself' and remember this season. It's really for me.

I did not play my first full season until I was 21.

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

Started an early career with Seattle, came straight in and they gave me a chance to play early.

I think a lot of times you start to second-guess yourself, especially as a young player, but you've got to have confidence that everything will be all right.

I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

I always loved drama at school. We had a great drama teacher at my secondary school, and she made drama feel cool. She inspired me, and then I did the National Youth Theatre in London.

The fact is, it wasn't enjoyable being in secondary school. I was a weird kid.

Most kids, you can turn off their auditions after five seconds, because there's nothing authentic about it.

When I was a kid, there used to be a family section in every club where it would be all kids. That stopped.

At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobody had heard of my brothers and cousins.

If you look at a lot of kids from the inner city, there's this overwhelming sense of hopelessness and despair, and I dealt with that first hand.

We kind of owe everything to 'Byker Grove.' It's where we learnt to do what we do.