Quotes About Youth

In 'Billy Elliot,' there were, like, 24 kids, so that was crazy. In 'Annie,' there's nine of us; we're all great friends, and we hang out all the time. We really are just sisters.

I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills.

Growing up, I was listening to Scissor Sisters.

I grew up watching my sisters and seeing kids at the local mountain hit jumps. After I hit my first jump, I knew this was something I was going to pursue.

I grew up watching 'TRL.' I had older sisters who got me into it!

I grew up pretty fast because I had a lot of older brothers and sisters.

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

Portraits of other great ones look down on you in your college halls; but while you are young and sit at the brief feast, what avails their serene gaze if it do not lift up your hearts and movingly persuade you to match your manhood to its inheritance?

When I sit down and play the guitar, I'm 20 years old again.

A lot of times people who write sitcoms for the 18 to 49 crowd think writing for kids is easy. It really isn't. First of all, you're very restricted in what you can do.

Kids want to build things, and we encourage them to be as imaginative as possible on the site.

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.

I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it - the music that went along with it.

I wasn't happy with what was going on around me, even when I was only 9 years old. I wasn't happy with the economic situation we were in.

As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the fact that my mother was always discussing things with my sister and me - also because I read a lot.

I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn't like the 'naturalism,' the sad or the 'down-to-earth' characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor - and beautiful women.

I am pretty sure that all young human beings have, at one time or another in their growing-up, been actors. They have used their imaginations to carry them away from painful or confusing situations... have imagined themselves to be more powerful or beautiful or brave or loving than they are.

Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.

I remember when I started climbing more seriously. That was when I was six years old.

My father gave me some Jack Nicklaus MacGregor clubs when I was six years old. He cut down some of the shafts, but they were men's clubs, so they were heavy.

I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

I am Eloise. I am six. I am a city child. I live at The Plaza.

I knew being a musician was my calling when I was 12 or 13. I started singing when I was six but didn't actually see myself being a singer when I was 12 or 13.