Quotes About Youth

Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.'

I got to host a radio show. I got a clothing range. I was the face of fashion week. I got to do a whole television show with kids.

I was about 15 years old, and I needed a job, and somebody I know - I don't even know who it was - said that there was a television show that needed a presenter and that I should go and audition for it, so I did. That was a show called 'The Word,' and I got that job.

For me, it's a great thing to tell people anything is possible. When I was 15, people told me 'You're not going to be a DJ.'

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.

What I loved about playing Ms. Albright in 'Love, Simon' is that, so often, when we speak of allies in the queer community, we don't really get to see what it means be an active ally. I love that she can step into this world with these kids and be a truth teller.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

What good is telling America's children that they will have equal opportunity for education if they don't have the skills that will even get them to the point of benefiting from education, because they didn't have the child care, the health care that would enable them to grow as strong and constructive human beings?

I would play around bonfires with my friends, and people were telling me that I was good.

I was a mad, impressionable kid, and every skit from 'The College Dropout' was telling me how I didn't need school.

I love telling 'first' stories - first loves, first college experience, first kiss, all of those kinds of things.

I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me.

When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.

One summer, when I was a kid, I was in the car with my stepfather, and he was asking me where I thought I ranked, on a scale of 1 to 10. I said, '6,' and he said, '3.' I think it was his way of telling me that I needed to get out and really attack life.

This is the time it all starts, I'm telling you. Like, 16, I mean, forget it. You could just get beat up, you could go through these grueling schedules.

But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them.

My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.

Jesus meets the physical needs of kids but also tells them how to save their soul.

I know people judge me from the shows I've been on, but I was growing up on telly, making mistakes, saying stupid things.

There were no prototypes for me - the telly was full of little blonde juveniles.

I want to see craggy old faces on the telly. I find them infinitely more fascinating than pretty young ones.

Going back to school, having done 'Byker Grove' and being on the telly when you're 13, all the kids are very jealous and it can make it a quite hostile environment.