Quotes About Youth

I came out of high school, where my heroes were, like, Michael Jordan and a lot of local rugby players - and on the movie front, it was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.

When I was young, I didn't watch basketball, but I watched 'Space Jam' with Michael Jordan so he was my favorite player.

Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.

It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

I liked what any other kid did back in the day. You know, Bob Seger, Alice Cooper, and everything else that was on the radio in Michigan. There was a lot of Steely Dan; just a lot of great music inspired me.

Back when I was a freshman-sophomore in high school, I was saying that I was going to Michigan once I saw the Fab Five come through - I was just mesmerized.

Mickey Rourke was the Brad Renfro of the '80s.

I love Mickey Mantle. Would I have felt the same if I had known when I was eight years old what I know now?

I was 18-years-old hanging out with Mickey Rourke and Johnny Depp at Mickey's club Risk.

I don't want to be the guy who's 50-something years old sitting in front of a microphone with my beard dyed black and my hat on backwards, yo-yo-yoing.

I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from it. In my mid- to late 20s, I started trying to write it.

When I was 7, I started playing with a club. The only grass on the field was in the corner. There was no grass in the middle! It was just sand.

Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class.

I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31.

When I was in middle school, that's when I first started making beats. I was maybe 14, 16, something like that.

I've only ever been in one band in my life, and that was in middle school.

If you had known me in middle school, I was definitely not what someone would think of as Brad Pitt. That was not me. I was kind of a dork.

I didn't graduate eighth grade. I could have, but I got into too many fights in middle school.

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

In middle school, I saw Chris Brown live, and I thought, 'I can do that.' And these girls are screaming for him.

I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.

I was bullied in elementary to middle school. It messed with my self esteem.

When I was in middle school, I remember thinking, like, Tara Lipinski was 14: I only got a few more years to go before I'm really old.