Quotes About Youth

I played Romeo when I was younger, and I think I did a couple kind Romeo-like parts after that, and I kind of went, 'I mustn't do this again. I must always choose something that I don't know if I'm a good enough actor to play.'

You go see a great production of 'Romeo and Juliet,' where those kids are full of life and love, you hope and forget.

Romeo and Juliet' is two love addicts acting out, and look how that ended.

Especially growing up in Los Angeles, there's just a very different mind-set than my own. There's no 'Romeo and Juliet' in Los Angeles. There's 'Laguna Beach.'

It was watching Franco's 'Romeo and Juliet' at the age of 15 that first made me want to act.

I've always rooted on kids that do what they want to do and are being who they want to be.

I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.

Everybody says Jalen Rose is somebody I have to watch, even though he's a little older than me. It started back in high school. Everybody called me 'Little Jalen.'

I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.

I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.

I remember auditioning for 'Moulin Rouge!,' the part that Ewan McGregor played. I was so young: I was literally just out of college.

I've always been a rough kid.

I was at a pretty rough school, and the only thing I was good at was art.

People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.

I remember I came into the NBA in 1999; the game was a little bit more rough. The game now is more for kids. It's not really a man's game anymore.

I think being a young female star must be really, really pretty rough.

I wasn't ready to get drafted in the first round.

I was a math and science kid in school, but I ended up going the route of writing and music in college.

When I was on 'EastEnders,' I still had a paper route until I was 21 and left home.

I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.

J. K. Rowling has already got a whole generation reading.

I grew up in a little seaside town that I thought was absolutely rubbish and I couldn't wait to leave.

Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.

I played rugby until I was 15, 16 and I eventually had to say, 'No, I have to choose one' and it was obviously going to be football, I miss playing rugby a lot.