Quotes About Youth

My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.

I was the first to wear colored skinny jeans.

I'm a skinny kid from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

I was a skinny guy growing up, and I still feel like that same skinny kid.

I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you feel bad. And I had skinny bow legs. I mean, as a kid growing up, I was an insecure fella.

I want to do a jean line for boys and girls that are sometimes too skinny to fit into jeans, or sometimes a little bit too husky to fit into some jeans.

We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.

If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.

People say: 'Models are so young, they're so skinny.' But Mr. Balenciaga used models at 16, and that will never change. People say they are skinny, but there is a difference between skinny and sick. If someone is sick, they're sick. It's not because of fashion. If I have flu, I have flu; it's not because I work in fashion.

One time, I was young. I was skinny. I was elegant. Getting old is terrible.

I grew up as a Polynesian kid in the Polynesian community, and I was this skinny white kid.

You don't know how pretty you are when you're young. Just being young is beautiful. And I was astonishingly pretty - you know, very skinny.

When I was a kid, I hated everything. I was really skinny, and I'd have a milkshake with an egg in it. Growing up, I ate, like, five different foods. I was not an adventurous eater. But as soon as I left home, that all changed and from that point on, I've been a pretty enthusiastic eater of new and strange food.

I was 5' 10 when I was 14, skinny and flat, with huge feet, and I never had a boyfriend.

I was a skinny 17-year-old.

The picture of me as a child is that I was always with a ball - that's why I was so skinny: I would miss dinner. Mum would have to leave me some food in the microwave.

Every time I feel like I'm gaining a bit of weight, I'll eat healthily for, like, 3 days. Then I'll be like, 'Oh, I look skinny again.' Then I'll go back to eating bad, but I tell myself it's OK, I'm only 19, so I can do it while I can.

What's great about 'Skins' is that the characters are exactly like people around you.

The great thing about 'Skins' is that it's not '90210.' We don't have to look stick-thin and ripped. Those shows send out the wrong messages by showing body-perfect people but not mentioning that they spend four hours a day in the gym to look that way.

'Skins' has been such a great thing for our generation - I don't want it to become a parody of itself.

'Skins' was the university for me. It was the best years of my life, really. We were all just a bunch of friends.

'Skins' was never about sending a message. It was showing you everything there was and letting you make a decision.

I went on Skins' when I was 23, and everyone else was about 17. It was like being back at school.

On 'Skins,' we only ever filmed for a couple of months in the summer. When I wasn't on set, I was doing my normal things.