Quotes About Youth

My father taught me poker at a very young age and I've been playing for money since I was 14 years old.

I think improvisation is a skill, that if you learn it at a really young age then you can use it for the rest of your life, whether that's acting or singing.

I was grounded in the performing arts from a very young age.

I was always fighting from a young age, in school and everywhere else. I didn't have any fear of anything like that. I could really hurt people.

I was very lucky to be a part of going to so many different countries and cities and seeing so many different cultures and people, living that lifestyle at such a young age.

I was 10 years old playing football against guys who were 12 and 13 years old, and it doesn't sound that big, but back then when you're 10 going up against preteens, it's a big deal. So even at that young age, my dad has always challenged me and made sure I not only put out my best, but I was going up against the best.

I was watching 'The Godfather' at a very young age.

I believe God made me with a purpose. He gave me the passions and the talents to pursue a specific thing. I feel like I found that at a young age. I just felt like when I was playing football, He was well pleased with what I was doing.

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.

As a young artist in New York, I thought about postwar Japan - the consumer culture and the loose, deboned feeling prevalent in the character and animation culture. Mixing all those up in order to portray Japanese culture and society was my work.

For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.

Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it's worth a lot.

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didn't introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.

The transformation that happens when a young artist goes on the road - you put the acoustic guitar down and start to play the electric a little louder - it gets a little bit ragged.

As a young artist working in multiple mediums, the work and especially the writings of artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy were very important to me.

I think, probably, being a young artist, there were a lot of things I thought I knew and I wanted to do, and I was like, 'Oh! That's what I want to do.' And then it took me in a different direction with 'I Think We're Alone Now,' and then all of a sudden, I was a pop star.

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

It's not easy to stand out as a young artist.

Definitely, it's hard being a young artist and being taken seriously.

Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.

As a young artist, especially in rap and at that time that I came out, originality was big.

I think when your confidence is still growing as a young artist, your capacity for generosity and partnership can be hindered, probably in large part due to self-involvement.

I think we've faced all the typical challenges that young filmmakers go through over the years - time, money, negativity - but it's a lot easier to manage when you can learn from and laugh about all those mistakes and anxieties with your best pal.