Quotes About Youth

'Freaky Friday' was my favorite movie in middle school.

I've coached grassroots for eight years, I coached middle school, and I coached high school.

I had a band when I was in middle school, but I was the drummer. I kind of thought if I was going to be in a band, I'd be the drummer. I'm innately drawn to rhythm. But we didn't have any shows. We just jammed in our parents' basement.

I always wrote songs. Elementary school, middle school. It didn't feel more creative than speaking. It was just normal to do that.

I haven't watched Miss America since I was in middle school, and I was incredulous even then.

If you saw what I looked like in high school you probably would've laughed. I looked like I should have been in middle school.

I don't care if someone is new to acting or experienced in acting: you always learn something from them. It's just like people in life - whether they're young or middle-aged or old, you always learn something from someone.

You shouldn't be learning how to code when you're middle-aged. You should be learning how to code when you're a kid.

I don't like that politics is associated with middle-aged, greying men.

Growing up I've been playing as an attacking midfielder, more central in the midfield. I wouldn't say if I'm most comfortable there but that's where I grew up playing.

At Under-11/12, I was playing as a right-back. The manager then was Cyril Helstone, and he said to me, 'No, you're not a defender. You should be in midfield.' That was the big change in my career because from that moment until I made my debut in the first-team at Feyenoord, that was the position I played.

My favorite position is in the center of the midfield, maybe the defensive midfield. I think I can play this position the best. I played there in my youth all the time, and I like to be in the center of the game because you're never standing still.

When I was 19 and at drama school, a couple of friends and I decided to drive from Guildford through France, down to the heel of Italy and then take a ferry to Greece - in an MG Midget. On our second day, in France, we were in a very bad accident and wrote off the car so we had to go home. But we then flew out instead and went island hopping.

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.

We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest.

I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.

As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.

Since I was 16 years old entering professional league, all the eyes were on me. And in Milan you have to win... every game.

When I was 18 it was my last season in Milan. I was 18 turning 19 and it was my last season in Milan and I knew that that year was very important for me. A lot of scouts were coming to every game.

I remember my first time in the Champions League. I was 18, and it was Arsenal against Milan at The Emirates. The night before, I remember I put my music on my iPod. I was lying in bed, and I listened to the Champions League music. That was my Champions League debut, my first time. It was beautiful.

I've always loved the club. Kaka was my role model when I was young, and my aim now is to go down in Milan history.

I miss the Bay Area - the kind of laid-back lifestyle. Because in Hong Kong, you're going, like, 90 miles an hour, which is fun when you're young.

When I was 12, I used to ride my scooter two miles to a comics shop, which I can't imagine letting my kids do by themselves through the city.

Miles Davis himself, I discovered him when I was 15, and he rocked my world.