Quotes About Youth

They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

I don't mind aging, I just don't want to be a day older.

As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don't want to be some Botoxed weirdo.

I started working at clubs when I was sixteen, which is young. I would not want my kid doing that, but I did, and that's how it went.

The idea of a youth-based society that you live in for a certain time and then you no longer live anymore is an interesting idea for a movie, but you need young people that people want to go see.

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

I still see myself as young, the same guy I was before I ever won the Heisman. Hopefully my friends still feel I'm the same way. I just want people to know I'm still the same person I've always been.

When I was on 'Idol' and 17, everything was so new. Everyone is so nice and wants to see you succeed.

I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience.

It's so funny, all the similarities that we have [with David Copperfield] of being obsessed young people and finding a way to be around the people doing what we want to do.

Kids should read whatever they want to read. So I'm hoping that just like 15-year-olds read "Summer Sisters," I'm hoping that they'll read this.

I hope my next movie is with like 80 year olds because I want to feel young again.

The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid.

When I was 18, I'd be out four nights a week - I want to have that energy again but I've found I'm a bit old and ready for retirement.

The Farfield Curse is a story you'll want to pick up, but not put down!

When I was younger, I didn't read that much. I was more interested in film and music. Now I'm curious. I want to know what it's all about.

We need young people to be involved, and we have to expect that young people are going to be impatient, they don't want to wait, and they've got new ideas and new ways of looking at problems.

We like little children, because they tear out as soon as they get what they want.

Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.

I just woke up one day when I was six and I wanted to play the violin. Then, six years later, I didn't want to play the violin, but I wanted to sing and play the guitar.

Working with all of these kids is great. It doesn't get any better than this, to come down and inspire kids who want to play the game of basketball and put smiles on their faces.

I think young people really do care. They want to build their life on something that's solid and makes sense, that's rational, that's not built on mythology, make-believe and wishful thinking.

I did plenty of crazy stuff, but I did a lot of charity stuff. You can't stop. You want to continue to taste, and sometimes that's crazy, stupid things.