Quotes About Youth

When I was 18 years old, I moved into Neneh Cherry's house in Kensal Rise with Judy Blame and our friend Michael Boadi.

I was a military brat. My dad was in the military, so I was born in Germany. I moved around a lot; I was in church a lot.

I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.

When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.

I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw.

Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.

What I see around the world are movements around people like Macron in France and Trudeau in Canada.

Social media can be very effective in creating movements. In the beginning, that is how I first got attention.

I was probably given a bit too much at an early age. I got some big moves and played in big games.

When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

I'd been collecting eccentric moves since I was a kid and didn't even know that the dance step I improvised in 'Be Back Soon' was called a 'pas de basque.'

We moan and groan all the time about a lack of involvement of young people. But they have taught me a lot about what moves them.

There is a scene in the movie with DJ Cutkiller, one of the biggest European DJs from France, and he was scratching like crazy. When I saw that, I was 14, and I was like, 'Yo that's what I want to do. That's crazy.'

When I was 11 I went to New York with my mum, dad and sister. I felt like I was on a movie set the whole time and loved being over there on Independence Day.

My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'

When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

Katherine Heigl was a movie star. I thought she was going to be one, and it was fun to watch this young actress getting better every day.

If you actually saw your favorite movie star who is also a great classical actor doing 'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Macbeth' or 'Taming of the Shrew,' it would be a great thing and a great thing for kids to get interested in language.

My parents had a long and eventful marriage and were always a bit like movie stars to me when they were young.

I had not grown up on theater - in Hughes, Ark., you went to see a movie on Saturday. So my acting heroes were movie stars. It was a natural thing for me to want to get into the movies.

Even in movies like 'Superbad,' they're all lovable kids.

Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them.

Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.