Quotes About Youth

What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.

When you're fit but you can't play, it's very hard, especially for the head, especially for a young player. But all you can do is train hard and give your best. Afterwards, it's the decision of the coach.

I used to play with all the older guys. I never played with, really, my age group when I was younger.

I think that's vitally important, that we get players playing at a younger age group.

I think I was born aged about 86.

I wasn't that good at football aged 14 or 15. I didn't take it too seriously.

When I was seven, my mom would come home every day, and I would have the phone book open to talent agencies, and I would have them highlighted.

I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to highschool and started playing with my band.

I was cold-calling agents when I was, like, 9 years old, and I was like, 'Mom, I need this thing called a headshot.'

The growing-up-fast part weirdly happened between the ages of 15 and 22.

There was a time when, for anybody between the ages of 15 and 25, music was one, two and three.

I lost a lot of homeboys growing up, a lot of family, at early ages.

I had a spate of being run over between the ages of 11 and 13. I was quite a rambunctious child, I had a little moped I used to ride illegally. I got hit by cars three times because I was a very day-dreamy kid.

I grew up as a boy with aggression.

When you're younger, you have a lot more aggression.

I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music.

I think there'll always be a kid with a guitar with a song in his heart that's going to turn me on - that's as far as I can see. Whether lots of people agree with that, I'm not sure.

My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.

I was just a girl from Alabama.

I was that kid who made his friends listen to the albums they didn't want to.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

The first film that I can remember seeing where, like, I just couldn't stop watching it - and it didn't necessarily make me want to be a director because I was so young, but it made me know that that's what I wanted to be doing - was 'Alien.' And I saw that when I was probably just over 10 years old.

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

I remember being a kid and always feeling a little different than all my friends.