Quotes About Youth

I was quite naughty at school. I was always in the back of the class messing about with the Bunsen burner rather than paying attention.

I was really not into school. Everything was distracting to me. I would have a beat in my head or a song. I was always not paying attention, just daydreaming.

College, by far, was the best time of my life. Just being able to go there right now and not worry about paying bills and all that and just having fun.

When you're in your 20s, you're a little more carefree; you're single. You have a very different way of looking at the world and experiencing the world. But later in your 30s, when you have children, a career, career obstacles, mortgages, car payments and relationships, you have to negotiate; that's a very different life.

When I was 18, I went into the army as a payroll clerk because otherwise I was headed for Korea.

Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and uncool.

Countries need to invest in their most important asset - their own people - and it pays to start early.

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, too. I was also the first footballer to have long hair, and that's how I got my nickname 'the Fifth Beatle.'

I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.

Where Halloween is concerned, I peaked in 2007.

I'm pretty sure I peaked at 15.

When I was 16, I discovered jazzercise. And I thought it was the greatest thing since peanut butter and jelly.

Pearl Jam were a part of my growing up.

I had a lot of jobs when I was younger. Where I grew up, there was a lot of agricultural jobs, so I worked on a lot of farms. I worked in the pea fields, harvesting peas.

I don't think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don't think there are many kids who want to sit around and want to be senators. But so many of us want to be athletes, so we're envious of them, and we put them up on that pedestal.

I want to be less of a role model and more of a mentor. I don't ever want kids to put me on a pedestal and feel like they can't talk or reach out to me. I want to be there for them.

I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.

I just felt good working with peer actors around my age.

I tend to make movies about my peer group. I couldn't see myself now going back and making a movie about a bunch of college kids, necessarily. I kind of always operate in the things I'm observing around me, whether it's friends having babies now in my life or what have you.

I was a highly sensitive kid, sort of an old soul, and I felt like a lot of people in my peer group didn't fully understand me, or I couldn't fully be myself. I just wasn't engaged in a way that was fulfilling me.

Mostly in high school, when peer pressure took its big hold on me, that's when I started getting into my faith, and that helped me out so much.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

I've always been a big guy - I was much larger and stronger than my peers when I was 13 years old.