Quotes About Youth

I have always been an extrovert. When I was younger, I would go outside and sing to the flowers and pretend they were the orchestra. As one of my parents' friends said, I was an odd boy.

I was a very lame skinhead. I had to be in by 8:30 P. M., so I used to pretend that I had a baby sister I had to go home and baby-sit.

When I was 16, I had a massive crush on our tennis coach and every time he came round to teach my brothers I used to sit outside and pretend to be reading something really intellectual.

I've never been one of those nanas who pretends to be young.

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

As a kid, I was always pretending to score the goal in the FA Cup final, and I managed to live my dream.

Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.

When I was, like, 12, I remember grabbing a mic, pretending it was a guitar, and performing in front of my friends. I didn't know at the time I wanted to be an artist.

I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole.

I must have been a really pretentious little girl.

I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.

I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.

Girls in my school were always prettier.

My parents were pretty cool about letting me listen to whatever I wanted. The only objection might have been playing music too loud.

Kids are pretty brutal.

I started Instagramming, like, my model life, per se, when I was 14. I got into it as, like, this is an opportunity to be able to show yourself not just as a pretty face but as a personality, which I think models have never been able to have until now.

Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.

People would come to me and say, 'Jet, your Kung Fu is pretty good, do you want to be an action star when you grow up?' At 17, I was given the script and I went to make the movie.

I used to be a pretty good player back in the day. But I don't play basketball too much anymore.

I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.

I never wanted to be an actor as a kid. I wanted to play hockey, like every other kid in Canada. I had a pretty good shot at it until I was 15 and badly injured myself.

I've put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being around these young guys, it keeps you going pretty good.

The only time I ever think about getting old is when I look in the mirror. I feel pretty good about it, actually.

On my youth teams, I always pretty good. I guess I just really started to play with some of my peers around age 8 or 9. We always battled and had fun playing in the rec leagues.