Quotes About Youth

Showing up in the lives of children is everything.

I never gave much thought to anything since I was 22 years old, when I got into the arts, so when Larry David came to my house in 2000, I didn't even think about it - I just thought about showing up on the set.

I'm happy to be associated with the Times Thyagaraja Awards, which takes Carnatic music to the young generation.

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.

I was an awful singer when I was younger.

Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.

It's awful when everything's before your time.

DACA, to me personally, and the DREAM Act are very personal and mean an awful lot.

I got my awkward years out of the way.

I feel really happy like with 'Derry Girls,' I feel happy to be part of something that young people are like, that is dysfunctional and you feel awkward in relationships and you try to find someone that makes you feel comfortable.

I was an awkward kid.

I always thought I was sort of awkward and goofy-looking. I'm still kind of gangly.

All babies are beautiful.

Babies got it going on!

I love babies and children.

From 16 years old, I wanted to have a baby, that's all I wanted.

I almost got my babysitter arrested when I was 7.

I do school on set and then when I come home I go back to school and kind of balance it out. One day I'll be 18 and then I won't have to do it.

I did my first professional play at 11, and there was really nothing else I ever dreamed of doing. I felt so fortunate that I knew at the age of like, 12, like this is all I want to do for the rest of my life; that's the only play. There's no backup plan. My mom wanted me to go to school and have a backup plan. I'm like 'No, this is the only plan.'

I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward.

Me? I'm going to grow backwards and be a kid again.

I'm growing up backwards.

I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example.