Quotes About Youth

I didn't want to do anything but ride horses until I was, like, 15.

I have great memories of growing up on a farm when I was young. I still ride horses, and I would love to own my own piece of land one day.

I used to ride horses and I remember one day I was working with a horse and we were having it jump, you know? There was a competition and so we were doing a test run and the horse fell on top of my body. I was a kid, like 7 years old. It took them a long time to take the horse off of my body after it had fallen.

I was 19 years old, and I felt like I had the flu one day. Within 24 hours, I was in the hospital on life support, and I was given less than a 2 percent chance of living. It took five days for the doctors to find out that I had contracted bacterial meningitis.

When I was 11, I spent eight months in the hospital with rheumatic fever and almost died.

Hollywood is enamored of the 20- to 30-year-old actress, but by the very nature of the life experience of the character, the roles cannot be that rich. You can only have Angelina Jolie in a mental hospital so many times.

Getting diagnosed with cancer at 22 really magnified the in-betweenness that I felt. All of my friends were starting careers and going to parties and dating, and I was stuck - literally - in this one hospital bed for weeks on end.

I never thought, growing up, I'd be a TV host.

My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control.

The '70s were a hot time. You know? I was, like, the most calm of all my friends.

Boy George was only 7 years old when I was hot in '68.

Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could be in the back and you could make out, you know? And you know how hot it was to make out.

Even at 10 or 12, I was a hot, fast little cheerleader.

As young, hot actors living in Hollywood, you get even more attractive.

Kids just want to have one song. They don't care about a body of work; they don't even care about a whole album - they just want whatever's hot right now. They download that song, and that's it.

I grew up playing basketball and eating hot dogs on the corner.

I saw 'The Shining' when I was too young with my dad in San Francisco in the hotel room.

I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.

When I was young, my family used to go and stay in hotels on the south coast in places like Devon. I loved those holidays because they were with my brothers, who were away at school; I really looked forward to them.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

It was in the '80s, so I guess big hair and high bangs. And I had so many gummy bracelets! While we were doing 'Full House,' we were like, 'You know, in 10 years, we're going to look back on this and think this is horrible.' But everyone looked like that!

I was athletic growing up and that was, of course, a big part of my household, but it wasn't something that I was necessarily passionate about.

At 16, I got housing benefit, and I had my own flat in an old woman's house. I was the only 16-year-old I knew living alone.

It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'