Quotes About Youth

I'm 19. I'm in the process of growing up and figuring out where I'm supposed to be in my life. But it is kind of weird when I realize that other people look to me as inspiration.

I am private because I'm still figuring things out. I'm young! I'm making it up as I go!

I started working at a time when most of my friends were still figuring their lives out.

I feel like at 18, you're half of someone else, as opposed to all of yourself. You're still figuring yourself out.

But I think sometimes, coaching less is better. That's the art of coaching, figuring out with each kid what is the right way to approach it?

I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.

I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.

I think I was one of those kids that, at the age of 13, start filling out a little bit: I was the kid that had the chest, the arms, the calves, especially, with these big legs like an adult.

More meaningful cinema is being made, and that is the reason why you see a rejuvenated Malayalam film industry. But more films aimed at youth are needed.

There is this thing in America where actresses reach 40 and go mad. The film industry wants all these young people.

I knew when I was about 14 that I wanted to be a director and that I wanted to go to NYU for film school.

Though I was born in a cricketing family and played Under 16 and Under 19 cricket for Delhi, my heart was always in cinema. Even while I was playing cricket, I was day dreaming about how it would be to stand on a film set saying lines.

Film was something I didn't really think about when I was young, because if you looked like me, you weren't a film star.

Filming is a very adult world, and you need to be with people your own age.

I was all of 18, and in love with Shammi Kapoor while we were filming 'Brahmachari.' He wanted me to give up my career, but I wasn't ready. I had my family to look after.

A lot of people think that I and Debina met while filming for 'Ramayan,' and then we got married in 2011. Very few know that when we were nothing, we weren't actors, we were only looking for work - we were just 19 and 20 years old, we eloped and got married, in 2006. We did not tell our parents.

I think of myself as young, but I was 23 when we were filming. Diana was 19; 16 at the start.

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

We've all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers 'ruining our childhood,' we forget that right now is someone else's childhood. This is their time. And I have to build something that can take them to the same place those earlier films took us.

Like a lot of people my age, I grew up on Amblin movies. They're a part of who I am as a filmmaker and, arguably, as a person.

Film is something I've always loved since I was very young. In fact, I actually wanted to study to be a filmmaker when I was younger.

I was blessed enough to know that I wanted to be a filmmaker when I was a kid, the first time I realized that that was something people did for a living.

I made short films in school.

I did important films when I was very young.