Quotes About Youth

I was just a kid in 1987 when I heard of the Pixies, the year after I graduated high school. But I had my band together, and my best friend at the time, Corey Hickock, who was the guitar player in the band that would become STP, Mighty Joe Young, turned me on to the Pixies.

All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know?

At 22, I had something I loved to do - make pizza - and something I was good at: running a business.

I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

When I was younger I delivered pizza, ate constantly and was a size 12.

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

There are people much better placed to make music than me. It's always been a young person's game.

Death can happen anywhere, but kids in Chicago, like 4 years old, can get shot. You don't really hear that in too many places.

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.

I was in love when I was in college; we all were. I remember how beautiful everybody was. Even the plain people looked beautiful.

Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the 'perreos' of Plan B.

Just because I go out with a boy doesn't mean I plan to marry. I go out with a lot of boys.

One day I'm riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on a plane to perform in front of 200,000 people.

When you put more than a million kids in school, you take a plane today and go to Haiti, you cannot see the results. You will see the results in 30 years when you see a different type of Haitian.

I didn't fly on a plane until I was 19.

I first flew in a plane at eight, and by the age of 10 I had mother drive me out to an airstrip to study the planes parked there.

We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.

Man's world is the planet of inexperience.

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

High school's like another planet.

Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.

I was 16 when I started modelling. It wasn't planned, but nothing in my life has or ever will be planned.

When I was 16 and I wanted information about birth control, Planned Parenthood was the first and only place that I could think of going for my health care and education.