Quotes About Youth

I must say, I was a very filmy kid. I used to watch a lot of TV and get very influenced by Bollywood.

I remember being influenced by great artists when I was a kid - not to call myself a great artist - but people who I thought were great enough that they really made a difference. And so I would never want to be disappointed by them, and I want to make sure I never disappoint audience.

I'm always pretty influenced by stuff from when we were younger.

Looking at magazines and being someone who wanted to act, as a kid, I was very much influenced by things I saw.

When you're young you're influenced by the best teams. So a lot of my favourite cricketers were Australian.

I'm not saying that maybe there isn't a kid out there whose behavior hasn't been influenced by me in some way. I'm sure there is. But I can only speak for myself, and if you'd asked if my behavior had ever been affected by people I'd admired from afar, like musicians or footballers, that'd be a yes, totally. Right down to their hand gestures.

I have always been true to the people who have influenced me as a young boy.

Somebody who really influenced me since a kid was Lil Phat. He was just telling his life story.

Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.

Streetwear for me is what I was raised wearing in London, and my style influences growing up were always people who wore streetwear.

When you're young, influences count.

My parents are kind of young, and my dad always listened to rock music and stuff like that, so I sort of grew up around that. As far as acting goes, I didn't really have any major influences because it wasn't really something that I focused on.

I think you can hear all my hip hop influences in 'Just Kids.'

I think that if you hear music young, whatever music you hear influences you. I'm white, but I've been influenced by black music.

One of my big influences as a young player was Allen Iverson. All I wanted to do was the left-to-right crossover, because that's the one he was doing most.

I'm not influencing the youth in no bad way. I'm doing can drives at my shows.

The Futurists believed in the machine, in making a great big fuss, in being young. For a brief moment, they were arguably the most influential aesthetic provocateurs in the world.

Growing up in Carol City, it was always a creative place for me to be because it was mad influential, especially going to Carol City High.

Floating the idea that every kid in Brixton can become a whizkid at information technology is dishonest.

I was really young when I was working on 'Freaks and Geeks.' In a lot of ways, that was the experience that informed a lot of what I've become, and I feel like every experience I have is in some way or another an extension of something that started there.

I love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed my own journey as a writer.

I started working when I was 17. After working for seven-eight years, I informed my parents about my acting decision.

Frankly, there is no shorter shelf life other than that of a child actor, than that of the ingenue.

I saw I wasn't an ingenue like Debbie Reynolds.