Quotes About Youth

I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss."

I'm sad for adults who want to be children. And children who want to be adults.

When young people grow up....they shine so much that old people want to avert their gaze.

If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.

As a youngster in the projects, I definitely didn't have anything. So if you get something, you want to be able to give back and help others.

When I was a kid I used to want to be a Beethoven or something. That was my dream.

Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete -- but a maker is what people are going to want to be.

I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.

Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

Girls liking bad boys is the cookie jar complex. When somebody tells you you can't have a cookie, you want a cookie. But I live in a bad-boy world, artistically. All the jazz boys are bad boys.

There's definitely the desire out there for young people who want to make the movies.

I think we need to be a bit more proactive. Let's not just talk about availability of sports, let's make the facilities more accessible to kids and make them want to come along.

You dream that you want to be a monster maker when you grow up, and that's what happened. I refused to take no for an answer. I just was a very driven kid, who's now a very driven semi-adult.

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.

Acting keeps me young! I love that the fans like this kind of action and as long as they want me I'll continue to do it.

I have kind of an existential crisis. I'm in my late 20s, I get excited by contemporary young culture, but at the same time, I don't want to be the 40-year-old DJ in the club.

Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.

You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life, you kind of want to be like that.

Like most kids, you don't want to do what your folks want you to do. You've got your own thing.

I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.

I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.

I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.

The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that