Quotes About Youth

When you speak to a lot of kids, as I've done over the years, you know what to say, keep them laughing, good illustrations and learn to read.

To me, this is one of the great things about writing kids' books: the illustrations.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

I had a very poor image of myself because I believed too much of the people around me when I was very young.

Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls.

Growing up, I loved the imagery I saw from America as it celebrated being the land of the free and home of the brave.

Boys, particularly, like stories where they can have images in their imagination, where they can go to scary places and experiment with what can happen.

So many images are saying to girls, 'Show a lot of skin and look gorgeous and sexy.'

Media images are so important to young people feeling positive about themselves.

When I was 13 years old, I was obsessed with horror films. I even had, like, a binder that I filled with badly copied images from the Internet of, like, 'Pinhead and Basket Case.'

MTV and others need to think about putting positive images In kids' minds.

When you are young your imagination is so clear.

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

A lot of kids are broken, and it's hard for them to believe in anything. But you have to have an imaginative mind and tell yourself, 'Hey, I can do whatever I want to.'

Imagine you're 24 years old, earning what I earn and having all that I have. Wouldn't you be the same as me?

When you're young, when you've never done anything very much on your own, you imagine that it won't be so hard.

I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring.

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.

Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.

When I started training to fight, it was more out of boredom than anything. I was looking for more things to do. I started with boxing, and my coaches told me I had a lot of potential and that I should consider making it a career. I was like, 'Whatever.' I was just 15 at the time, and I never imagined something like that.

As a kid, I imagined being an artist.