Quotes About Youth

When one is young, one can become distracted and overconfident.

Sometimes when you're young and a little more immature, you can overdo things or not really have your legs under you.

I think, often, child actors are, like, overlooked a little bit.

I'm a huge Gaga fan. I have been since I was a kid. I actually camped out overnight to see Gaga when I was 17 years old in London.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

One can't feel old in a day or overnight!

I didn't realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn't. I was basically living on my own from when I was 17 on.

You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne.

I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

I was a different kind of player as a kid and didn't do too much shouting and screaming. If things didn't go my way, I tended to get a bit overwhelmed. All I wanted to do was cry on my mom's shoulder. I didn't know how to handle defeat in front of a crowd, and I didn't want to be the loser.

I was so overwhelmed years ago, when I was a kid, by 'All Quiet on the Western Front.' I think it was the second movie I ever saw. I never got over that one.

I think there were so many times that I just felt so overwhelmed by school and by my relationships with my friends and I felt like I was going to be stuck in high school forever and I was never going to achieve my dreams.

Perhaps the reason memoirs are so often written by the young these days is that, once you reach a certain age, only fiction might allow you to truly make your way back to childhood.

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.

One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them.

I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

Then he went to walk beside her, leaving his teddy bear lying on the ground behind him and with it leaving forever the tears and laughter of childhood.

I did a production of 'Journey's End ' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

Kids: get away from the cell phones, get away from the computers, and mail someone a fish before it's too late.