Quotes About Youth

I used to watch English football on TV when I was younger in Brazil. I already knew it was a dynamic, competitive and fast way of playing. When I got here, I just confirmed all of that.

I think there's so much to play in adolescence; there's so many conflicting things happening and so many changes, and there's just a lot of good stuff to play there as an actor.

If I was confronted with some 20-year-old American hotshot, I'd hate him.

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.

New York was very congenial to me when I was young, like most people. I met my comrades in arms and partied hard. It's the way it should be, and then you get sick of it.

I started to write my songs when I was 15 and living in the Congo.

I think that the beauty of 'Spud' is that everyone can connect to the character of Spud in so many ways. It's about real experiences that happen to kids all the time.

I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.

There are so many fun things that you live that you can write about and people of all ages can connect to.

I didn't go to high school. I never felt connected to people my age.

I grew up in Connecticut - it was really charming, but when I was younger, all I wanted was to get out.

I really like connecting with kids.

My characters in both 'Pyaar Ka Punchnama' films were so relatable that every other guy connects with me.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I've got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

When I left Cameroon, I was 15 years old... I had one dream - it was to conquer the world.

I wish I would have listened, when I was a kid, to my elders or people who had my best interests at heart, and then I wish I would have been more conscious at that age also.

We have to make conservatism cool and exciting again.

As an 18-year-old, I really sensed the call of God. What was interesting about that time was, I come from a very conservative part of the body of Christ, so there was really nothing for a woman to do.

I would advise any 17-year-old to surround yourself with people who listen to you, nod when you speak, and smile when you enter spaces.

When you are surrounded by children, the child in you comes back.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

It's always been very important for me to be surrounded by people. It's never been enough for me to be successful alone. I want to be around people my own age who are also doing things I can learn from.

I had some social anxiety when I was younger because I wasn't surrounded by many people in my life.