Quotes About Youth

'In the Making' reveals the truth about 'being in the limelight' as a young celebrity.

Even when I was a kid, I thought of myself as a celebrity.

I didn't have a cell phone for awhile, until I was, like, 13 or 14, and before then, even if I did have one, it didn't work.

When I went to the 2007 Europeans with the Under-21s, we were based at Oosterbeek near Arnhem and I went out on my bike a few times. We went over the bridge. I went to some of the war cemeteries there: very, very moving.

Between 1961 and 1982, 'The Catcher in the Rye' was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States. But all the talk about banning it made me rush out to find it.

I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.

Every community needs a rec center.

Eighteen-year-old guys don't hang around youth centers, or if they do, they're kind of weird.

It's one of the central problems of American culture: telling you if you're younger, more beautiful, more famous, whatever, that then you'll be happy.

In my 20s, I just had to be the centre of attention all the time. I was quite eccentric.

When friends wanted to go to the centre of town, they took a bus or tram. I took the ball and went running after them. School was hell because I had to put the ball on the ground. Outside, I was free, playing the ball.

I watch 'Take Me Out' mainly for Paddy McGuinness. When we were younger, we worked together as lifeguards at the Bolton Leisure Centre.

I did a play in school. Then Dramsoc became the centre of my universe.

I'm trying to become a young CEO, to brand myself in television and movies.

When I became CEO, I just didn't think about my age too much. I'm sure many people did think that my age mattered, but I didn't. That was probably because of my age.

If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.

I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

Kids at a certain age don't necessarily want to be dragged to the other side of the world.

A certain point came when I wanted to document growing-up adventures.

I saw pageants as a way to be a role model. I think that was always very important to me, to live my life by a certain way that I was proud of and to have those opportunities for scholarship.

I was so sheltered as a kid that when I went to college, it was like taking the chains off. That's where the trouble came from. It was the first time for me being by myself, and I got into everything you could think of.

When I was in school, I was too short to erase the blackboard. It was my job to put away the chairs.

When I was younger I really challenged the boundaries of fashion, I guess I always have.

When we were writing 'In Our Bones,' everything was bubbly champagne all the time so that's what ended up on the record.