Quotes About Youth

It's exciting to work with new directors with new ideas.

The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band.

I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?

I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.

I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.

I grew up, a kid in New Jersey.

I spent my youth playing music, and I worked a lot in New Jersey and New York clubs. At 18, I worked all around Hudson, Essex, and Bergen counties.

I partied too much. I was still 19, 20 years old. I was coming from a little small city where there's 40,000 people, so being in New Jersey, New York, being with a big All-Star like Stephon Marbury, he's calling me every night to go out with him. I didn't know how to say no.

Oh, I love the kids more than any other age group. I hate to say that, but new life is with new kids, you know? They're the future. The sheer fact that they're young and eager, that's what makes them rule.

I came to know Christ at the age of 13 during church camp at Glorieta, New Mexico.

It's hard to believe a kid hitting golf balls in the cow pastures of New Mexico could have accomplished what I have accomplished.

I was of that generation of NME-reading, indie fans. Part of the reason I went to Manchester was because of New Order and The Smiths. Growing up in the north west, it was where we aspired to go out.

I got so famous with so many new people entering my life. You can imagine how it was for an 18-year-old who was playing effortlessly and savouring every moment of my success. I had lost all sense of reality.

It's more interesting to see new people on the screen when you go to the cinema. I don't want to see the same old faces.

So many parents these days are totally cool with their kids living on the couch the whole time. It's like a new thing with families. But you've got to leave the nest and get out there.

I was always a very athletic kid, and I always played as many sports as possible and always tried to do new things.

It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school.

When I was about 12, I saw Mark Rylance do this play in New York City called 'Jerusalem' and that really changed the game for me.

I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.

I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.

I've definitely run from the cops in the New York City subways.

I grew up in New York City, and I moved to Florida in high school.

I started my entrepreneurial journey right out of college. At the age of 21, I incorporated my first business: a PR firm based in New York City.