Quotes About Youth

When I was twelve, I heard about the National Theater School, and I told my parents, 'That's what I want to do.' And that was it.

One of my first concerts ever was seeing Jethro Tull at Fiddler's Green, when I was twelve.

With social media now, everybody's faceless, but I assume these kids sending me pictures of myself of Instagram are twelve, thirteen years old.

I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.

I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.

I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast.

My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first.

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.

I seriously started drinking probably when I was about twelve. Kids are doing a lot of stuff very early.

At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their credit, granted this 12 year old girl a chance to give it a try.

Ever since I was a kid, I might have been eleven or twelve. I'd be telling anyone who would listen that when I grew up, I wanted to be an artist.

Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about twelve years old. That wasn't the first science fiction I had ever read, but it's something that stands out in my memory as having had a big impact on me.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.

Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.

When I first started writing songs, I was probably about ten or twelve years old, and the first thing you think as a songwriter is, 'Can this be a hit? Can this come out, and people are going to hear the song and like the song, and then they're going to like you, and you'll get famous and rich?' That hasn't changed a bit.

I loved everything about being ten, eleven, and twelve years old, and seem to make most of my heroines and heroes that age so I can reexperience all those pitfalls and wonderful discoveries. It helps me to figure out my own life when I write from that eleven year old place!

My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.

Every time I could escape from Sunday church, I did, from the age of twelve until about thirty.

I feel like we're always learning about ourselves, but at twelve, you're learning big things that shape your identity.

I was twelve when I went to boarding school in Edinburgh.

In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.