Quotes About Youth

I thought: 'I'm going to go to college. I'm going to have a normal 9-to-5 job.'

I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school.

I'm a kid, and a breakup is normal. I have to go through the emotions and feel it out.

I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.

Becoming a good player so quickly made me miss a lot of the normal life of a normal teenager.

In a way, I had such a normal life. But in another way, I saw things most kids don't see.

Fans of the 'Inbetweeners' like the show because it is about four normal people, average guys or lower than average losers.

The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.

I'm a pretty normal person outside of the film world. It doesn't really affect me when I'm at school or with my mates.

I started acting when I was young, and I didn't go to drama school. It was always something that I did alongside going to school and being a normal person.

I love going to football games and going to homecoming dances and just doing normal things.

The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!

I try to make sure that I still get a normal life and go to school - do all the normal things. I still want to have a childhood.

I sort of felt like being young was normally written about as being very fun and light-hearted. And I think that's true, but I don't feel like there's a lot of songs about how hard it is when you don't really know who you are or what you want, and you feel like you have to apologize for simply just existing.

Normally I'm watching people become actors in the process of making the film. It's very important you have a lot of respect when you are dealing with young people. You are in charge of everything about the process. You're an adult and they're not.

The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?

When you're young, no one cares who your parents are, although Mum would arrive to pick me up in her full hair and make-up and fur, and I used to say, 'Can't you just dress normally, like all the other mums?' I wanted her to blend in more, but I've always been really proud of Mum - as proud as she is of me.

I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.

We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about.

When you're younger, you might make some shots you're not normally capable of, because you're more fluid, maybe stronger, maybe faster. As you get older, you learn not to take those crazy shots.

I didn't care about anyone or listen to nobody, only my father or mother. I would fight my coaches and say: 'Who are you to scream or shout at me? Are you my dad? Talk to me normally.'

I wanted to really just understand... how could a whole generation of children who were just children at the time - boys riding their bikes, flying kites, and doing all kinds of things they normally do - how could they suddenly be taught a completely different curriculum?

NME is normally associated with indie rock. It ain't something I read as a kid.

When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'