Quotes About Youth

'1984,' one of the most important works ever written, helped us understand the Cold War. In '1984,' the dictatorship was always surveilling you. Now, young people want to be surveyed. They want people to know where they are at all times.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'

'Die Hard' was a really awesome experience, but I was too young to understand what a big film it was.

The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.

A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

I always liked Santos. Then I started watching, it was the time, when I was very young, it was Robinho, Diego. Then I got the season that Neymar, Ganso and Elano played, I saw them all playing, that's when I fell in love with Santos.

One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.

Lots of kids don't have active lives and good diets.

I think I just want to focus on being the best player that I can be and being the best role model that I can be by just doing all the right things, not just for black kids or kids from different backgrounds, but for all kids who play the game. You want them to look at you in a positive light.

I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.

By the time I was 19 years old, I had lived in five different cities in four different countries and three different continents.

When I moved to U.S., you have to be stronger somehow, and a lot of kids from different countries and sometimes you have to play with big guys, especially I was small when I was little.

I get kids from all different cultures and nationalities coming up to me now, all wanting to be F1 drivers. They feel the sport is open to everyone.

I was lucky to move around different cultures at an early age and have experience of different lifestyles.

When I was a kid I feel lonely, I have not many friends. If you make a movie, then you can work with different kinds of people and make different kinds of friend. That's very important to me.

I took tap classes growing up.

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.

When I was 13, I was a member of a women's over-40s tap class.

The way the music comes to you starts to affect how you listen to music. When you're a kid, it's 'Does it rock? Does it make me feel good? Does it make me tap my feet? Does it make me go to sleep?'

When I'm on TV or whatever, I'm able to bring my instruments, my board, and my sound is intact. But other kids who are on TV, when they're doing tap, sometimes they're just on the regular floor. It's not as safe; it's not as sound-worthy as it should be.

Tap dancing and basketball started at the same time, and when I was eight, I just kind of made the decision that entertainment was really where I wanted to be.

What I'm trying to do is bring young people into doing tap so that the art form will keep going.

I was highly sensitive and still am, but as a kid I could tap into my emotional state rather easily.