Quotes About Youth

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.

New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.

After high school I moved out and worked at pizza shops and movie theaters and moved to L.A. for a year and lived with my brother.

Growing up, my best friend was the movie theaters. I'd go to the movies every week, multiple times a week, with my dad or alone.

I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

I remember when I saw 'The Matrix' when I was 13, I saw it in the theaters, and I was so blown away by it. It was one of the most memorable experiences I definitely ever had in the theater.

I grew up near New York, and there were a lot of summer stock theaters in the area. I started an apprenticing with some of the theaters. Not really acting in them - I did everything else: everything but act.

I'd like more kids to go and see theatre because it really is amazing.

When I left school I did far more theatre than anything else and it was exciting.

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.

I was really, really, really enthusiastic as a kid. I was up for anything. I was hugely into music and theatre. I was a big musical theatre kid; I loved reading.

My dream is to eventually open a children's theatre.

I think that the wonderful advantage we have in the film of being able to cast a girl as young as Emmy and which we couldn't do in the theatre of course because no girl of 16 or 17 could sing 8 shows a week, couldn't sing two.

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.

Directing is something I always wanted to do. I started when I was 13 directing scenes in high school and then plays in college with my theatre company.