Quotes About Youth

I really got into Three Doors Down - that's the sound that was out when I was 12 or 13. I really loved Breaking Benjamin and bands like that.

I don't believe in breaks. Not yet. I'm too young.

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

I was really close to my father since I was young. He always told me that I had to work in order to become a man, so I had to stay with him when my mother left. He always took me to work to help him as a bricklayer. I was just a kid, so I did what I could do to help him.

I did 'Bridge to Terabithia' when I was around 6 years old, but for my first movie, I was 5.

Even students from rural India may have bright ideas. They need to be tapped.

At ten I was bright.

To be honest, when I was younger, I went to schools that made me aware I wasn't the brightest.

I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me.

All the serious bands, all the punks, came from Bristol.

I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.

In Britain, you don't usually learn about evolution until you are about 15. I should have thought that you should start at about 8. But I could be wrong about that.

I grew up with British rock.

I tried to take my gran to the Brits, but she's 81, and I don't know if she was up for making the whole journey all that way for one night anyway.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

The world we live in is like a Benetton ad. It's changed, and we have to appeal to a broader audience. You want younger kids of every race to be able to see themselves in the movie.

The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.'

I knew when I was a kid that I had a Broadway voice. I wanted to be a rocker, because I grew up in that era of transistor radios at the beach.

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

In high school, I was doing my magazine 'Rookie' and a lot of writing, and I became a little less interested in the fashion world. I was approached by an agent for writing, and I said I wanted to act as well. They sent me scripts, and then I got my first Broadway play, 'This Is Our Youth'.

If I were to talk to my younger self, I would say, 'Girl, you're gonna be on Broadway one day.' I sometimes think about my younger self knowing that and how ridiculously she's sobbing somewhere, so I would love to tell her that it's all going to happen.

When I was 17, I broke up with my future wife.

I married my first boyfriend. We just married too young. No children. So that broke up. There were a few relationships in between, and then I met my husband Adam when I was 37.

The bonds you make with those records when you're 14, 15 and 16, they'll never be broken, and nothing will ever be as strong as that.