Quotes About Youth

Yes, I would love to step outside the costume drama category and play a young urbanite, something closer to who I am.

I grew up on a council estate.

The council estate I grew up on wasn't too bad.

We've been lucky because quite a few young people keep coming to see us play. We couldn't tour as much as we do if we could only count on the baby boomers.

We are as old as we feel. And while I never feel my calendar age, I often feel my Leaper age. And I'll go with that. Because life is not something to be run down like a counter nor counted as it runs you down. It is an experience, and we can choose to live it as we will.

I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.

I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.

I grew up in the countryside as a normal kid.

We should ensure that a kid from Nash County can get the same great education as a kid from Wake County.

I was a barefoot earth child for a couple of years.

Most ballerinas take their first ballet class when they are 5 or 6 years old. I was 13 when I took mine on the basketball court of the San Pedro Boys & Girls Club in California.

I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.

Me and my little cousin DJ John John, we used to always be DJing in the house. We never took it seriously.

When I was young and beautiful, I never appeared on the cover of a magazine.

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great.

I've done things that should be talked about, and covered serious issues that face our kids, but people aren't interested in that.

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be playing for the Cowboys.

I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.

What I want people to take away from my music is that it's important to listen. Especially for young people, your opinion is the one that counts the most when it comes to your craft.

It's wonderful when you happen across it as an actor, finding a young actor that is literally just starting out and you understand that to them the craft is the most important aspect of the job.

I was fortunate enough to crash the right audition when I was 15, and just took it from there.

I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.

My best mates when I was 19 were all in their 30s. I used to go to all their house parties, and they were crazier than the guys who were 17, 18. They were so much more liberated than the people who were apparently shackle-free.