Quotes About Youth

When I was a kid, I would watch the grands prix. Everyone dreamt of becoming a race driver, while I only started thinking about it when I was 18 or 19. Only at that age did I seriously start thinking about this job. Before then, I would change ideas from one second to the next.

The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.

Growing up, I always wanted a bedroom of my own.

I'm still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and playing them.

It's not like I'm back for bath-time and bedtime for the children. You're back when they are asleep and you go out before they wake up. Really, that time when they are young goes all too quickly.

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

The beginnings of CTE can start quite early.

It's my belief that Barcelona are successful because they have a number of youth teams alongside the first team. They are where it begins.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

What was weird, as a 12-year-old actor, was being expected to behave like an adult while still being treated as a kid everywhere else.

Ancelotti immediately understood me and put me in the right situation to adapt quickly. I was 18 and, at that age, it is difficult. He helped me a lot off the field, too. He advised me on how to behave. You can say he was a father to me in the footballing world.

I was quite badly behaved at school - I remember cutting class - and acting was a way of channelling energy.

When I was in Beijing, London, and also in Rio I was still a kid really, I didn't feel pressure.

I remember being a teenager, I never thought that I'd live in a society that was not segregated. It happened.

I remember being happy and a little wild kid.

I think when you're young, being in love for the first time is like this fantasy.

Playing athletics, playing a lot of different sports, going to drama school... I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, so I ended up being pretty average at everything.

To be fair, when you are really young, you don't think about the future too much. You just want to play with your friends. When you get older, you start to dream about being there, about being at a top team, so of course it's a dream to be at a team like Manchester United.

Street football means you don't fear no one because you have nothing to lose and you are just being yourself.

My belief is that sports in school is not an extracurricular activity.

I want to encourage kids to speak up, to tell their stories. That is the only way people will know what we have to go through. Believe in yourself. Someone once told me being different isn't bad - different is just different!

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

I'm a strong believer in kid-empowerment.

I look really young. I always get carded at bars. No one believes that I'm over 18, let alone over 21.