Quotes About Youth

I got archives of records. I have records from when I was 17 that I still think are pretty dope.

You might go into 'Dope' feeling you already know what this movie is because, all right, there's kids, they're from Inglewood, oh, it's drugs.

I love college. I know I sound like a dork.

I was such a dork. I was too big. I was really gangly.

On some level, I think everyone felt like a dork in high school.

I always liked clothes when I was younger, but I never really dove into it.

I was part of a generation where kids had a lot of freedom and aimless downtime. I had no scheduled after-school activities. As long as you came home for dinner, everything was fine.

My parents, stupidly, always let me go downtown. This was pre-pager, even. It made me adventurous. I think it makes you tough.

When I was little I wanted to be like Kathleen Hanna or Courtney Love or be attached to the X-girls and hang out in downtown culture.

'Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.

I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B' the summer after I turned 21.

You get drafted on potential.

I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

It's every kid's dream to be drafted No. 1.

I used to go to school in drag.

During the summer, I used to hate when my mom would call me inside to eat - it was such a drag to leave all the fun.

One could argue that our national university system has become a de facto talent drain for much of the country. Many states and communities send their top students away to great schools, never to hear from them again.

I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on 'Hollyoaks.'

I started at drama school at 18.

I did apply for drama school when I was 17, and I didn't get in; I had a really bad audition.

I'd hardly seen any movies when I was 19 and left drama school.

I was always very dramatic - my family would probably use the word 'dramatic' - as a child; always putting on performances, making everyone come watch, and pay to watch. I was very business-savvy as a child.

I started acting young, and I was a dramatic actress.