Quotes About Youth

I was very smart in school. I had straight As and was going to graduate high school at 16 and start college. My dad wanted me to be a lawyer because I was very opinionated.

I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.

When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.

I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.

When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

If you are a young, white, straight man in today's society, you are in trouble.

I had some bad influences in my time and, if my parents weren't there to straighten me out, things might have gone haywire.

I'm a young correspondent, so sometimes I'm just young. Sometimes I'm just straightforward.

When you're younger, the mental strain of being a successful actor, jumping from role to role, and trying to have some kind of personal life, can really be terrible.

When that punk strain came to Britain and infected everyone. It was more than just a sound. There was an ethos, an ethic that went with it.

From United's point of view, it is always difficult to tell just when a young footballer is going to mature into a first-class professional ready to play at the highest level, but the story of how Pogba slipped away from United has more than one strand to it.

I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.

It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there.

For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.

Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all... . Everybody really, really likes everybody else.

This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.

I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.

I was a kid with a lot of different, strange interests - kind of crazy.

This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

I've been working for, like, 10 years now, which is a very strange thing to say when you're 23.