Quotes About Youth

Have you imagined me acting in a TV drama? I have, when I was young.

I had never imagined I will come into pageants, because all this happened accidentally in my life, when I was just 17-years-old.

In the 1980s when I was growing up in the Berkshire town of Maidenhead I was heavily into tennis. It was the era of Borg and McEnroe. I used to spend hours hitting balls against a wall, imagining I was beating them both.

When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

I've been imagining spikes in my head since I was 13 years old.

I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.

Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.

Age is so immaterial. Isn't this all just the blink of an eyelash?

My rookie year, I was very immature.

I grew up a lot by going to college. I was still really immature.

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

I was very immature when I married.

I am too childlike to be immature.

For a young player, it's important to have people around you other than yourself. You're immature as an 18- or 19-year-old.

I'm so immature and still feel so young. Forty doesn't feel any different than 30 did.

Do I think John Wall has grown up? Absolutely. Do I think he was immature when he broke into the league? Absolutely.

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

Daily contact with boys who had not been brought up as gently as I worked an immediate and, in some respects, a beneficial change in my character.

When you hear a child's voice, it will have that immediate effect of putting you in mind of looking after children.

I'm a big fan of films that I grew up on and would watch obsessively, over and over again. If I didn't feel like I got everything on the first watch good, I want to see it again immediately.

Fundamentalism is such a pejorative word and immediately evokes images of angry extremism. In my experience, that's not usually what it looks like. I was a fundamentalist in high school.

When I was a kid, I did dial the 900 numbers out of curiosity, but I was such a goodie-two-shoes that I immediately hung up because I didn't want it showing up on the bill.

I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'

You tend to put your rock stars on pedestals - they seem like they've been there for time immemorial. But you realize that the rock stars have their own rock stars. They were fans and kids once, too.