Quotes About Youth

From the time I was 18, I knew I wanted to be a comedian, but I was just scared to try it. And first I thought, 'Well, I should go to college and get a degree.' That didn't pan out.

The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours.

I grew up really into comic books, and I actually thought I was going to be a comic-book artist. That was my ambition before I realized I couldn't keep characters looking the same from panel to panel.

Many years ago, I was a young and, dare I say it, very hot new comedian. Maybe even the hottest of all if the now defunct Perrier panel of judges were to be believed.

You're still young. Don't panic. It's hard to know what you should be doing in your 20s. Try different things, have some fun, and see what happens.

It was amazing to look across the net and see grown men and the panic in their eyes that they were close to losing to a kid. It was a very empowering moment for me.

I feel like baggy pants are cool.

I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

When I was in elementary school, I was a big fan of the zip-off pants that could be turned into shorts. The Delia's catalog used to be my bible.

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.

The only thing that makes me feel old is when I can see your ankles and you have on pants.

When we just hang around, our pants are always sagging.

The same kids listening to Papa Roach will listen to an Xzibit CD.

I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.

On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.

I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.

DACA is a lifeline for individuals who have grown up in the U.S. but who lack immigration papers.

I started off with a paper round when we were just about old enough to drive. I couldn't drive myself, so someone else would have to drive me and I'd drop off the papers.

Recklessness is par for the course when you're 25.

I was always very active as a kid. I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

As a kid, I saw those ticker-tape parades in the movies, and I was really chuffed to be in one.

First CD I bought for myself was 'The Black Parade' by My Chemical Romance.