Quotes About Youth

When I was younger, I was ambitious. Now I'm not ambitious anymore. I just want to be happy. Does that make sense?

Every kid will tell you that they want you to be real, but that's until you keep it real with them. Then they don't want it real.

After school let out around 2:30, I'd go straight to the gym to be the first person there, even though it didn't open until about 4:30. I was the littlest one and I was good, so they took me serious.

From when I was a young boy, I wanted to be the first person to direct a movie at 100.

Of course, I want to be the first pick. That's every kids' dream.

I started on the beach in Santa Barbara with my father when I was six.

I want to be a beacon to kids like me, the ones who grow up without hope.

The first record I bought was actually Booker T and the MG's 'Red Beans and Rice.'

When you're small, you either are funny, or you get beat up a lot.

There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school.

I was this big, heavy kid - nobody was at my weight at that age, so I had to fight 12-year-olds, 13-year-olds when I was seven years old. And what do you know, I was beating them.

I love beating guys who are younger than me.

I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.

I grew up a massive Beatles fan.

When I was a kid in the '50s, I was very enamored of beatniks and... a kind of dark sensibility.

As long as your heart beats, one is never too old.

I probably started trying to make beats at around 12.

I started making beats when I was 13.

I started making beats in high school.

I actually started making beats first and that was before 2010. I think I was like 14. They were really bad. I used to sample like Arabic music for some reason.

There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

Why should only rich men have young, beautiful women? Rich women should have young, beautiful men.

I was very young when I became an actor: I was 19 years old.

While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.