Quotes About Youth

When you're from a boring town, you have to find things to do. It's funny: I always knew I wanted to make music, so I was always kind of ahead of my peers. I had an MP3 player by the time I was in the fourth grade.

The idea of being with my peers at a real school seemed much more exciting than making movies.

We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.

We want all LGBTQ kids to grow up in a world where they feel safe and equal to their straight peers.

I was really lucky about two things about my life as a kid: I had awesome parents, and I had awesome peers.

I'm inspired by the fact that for every kid we see committed to crime, there's kids determined to go to uni and not follow their peers.

I wasn't mad, but it was maybe a little frustrating sometimes seeing some friends and peers my age do well. Not because I wasn't cheering for them - because I feel like I was as good as them.

I was the All-American kid, or so I told myself - good grades, never in trouble, bright future, well-respected by my peers. My favorite comedian was Bob Newhart.

I don't want to see a kid get hurt trying to imitate me or trying to do something he or she has seen one of my peers do.

Marine Le Pen belongs to her generation, I belong to mine. I got into politics for Marine Le Pen and with her as party leader.

Le Pen is old; I'm young.

As a little kid, I wasn't even interested in football. The first time I played, I was nine, and I volunteered to go in goal, thinking it would be exciting to save penalties. In fact, it was really boring.

I think when I was younger, I knew I was either going to get a penalty or score a goal. It was a gamble. But it benefited me.

Everyone wants to pencil you in as the kind of player that you're going to be after a few years in the big leagues. When you're still really young, they think that's what you're going to be forever.

I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.

'Lizzie McGuire' was my big thing when I was younger. I did buy some pencils and back-to-school stuff of hers because she was on it. I loved her.

I'm still short now, but when I was 14, I was like a pencil. You had to be aggressive and hold your own.

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

I go to a lot of metal shows when we're home. I don't know why, but it takes me back to when I was 17 and going to the local metal shows in Pennsylvania. I go right back to that mentality.

I remember going on adventures with my older brother and, when I was 11, being allowed to go to the corner shop alone, and filling up a bag with penny chews, Fruit Salads, Bruiser bars and Black Jacks.

I can pass on a lot of information. I'm just never going to be the 21-year-old Penny Hardaway again.

People say I look so happy - and I say, 'That's the Botox.'

A lot of people say I was brilliant. I wasn't. I was an opportunist: a young entrepreneur who saw things and took advantage.