Quotes About Youth

My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.

When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder.

David Cameron was a good-looking chap in his day!

Thank goodness for me, 'Smallville''s Lois Lane is younger, so there's a little bit of play with the character.

I used to goof off a lot.

'The Diary of Anne Frank' gets pretty dark toward the end. But there are some comic moments in the early part of the play. Anne was a goofball at times.

When I was young, I was working with people my own age, so it was kind of a lot of goofing around.

It never dawned on me that I was sexy. I always thought of myself as the goofy kid.

When kids are kids, everything a parent does seems goofy.

There's a reason why start-ups, especially disruptive start-ups - like Google or Amazon or Uber - are full of young people. That's because young people are not as wedded to the old fashioned ways of doing things.

For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.

I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.

Going into the 2012 election, I worried that without effectively connecting with the youth vote, the GOP risked losing the millennial generation for the rest of their lives.

You see kids leave drama school who are drop-dead gorgeous and they just go stratospheric instant'aneously.

I actually didn't own any North Face until I was 18 and the first one I had was a gorgeous Blue Extreme and I loved it.

British rock & roll became the gospel for American kids like me.

I was exposed to jazz and blues and gospel and country music and rock, and I was the only kid I knew who knew about that stuff.

I would say when I was 9 or 10 I started doing gospel choir, and I was with them for about two years.

So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.

Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg - there's always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta look better than him.

I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

I think 'Lovin' Feelin' was probably one of the most - probably in '64 and '65, one of the more dramatic love songs for these kids to grab hold of. I mean, they had been listening to, you know, kind of cute songs, and 'Lovin' Feelin' was just a strong, powerful song.

I was a go-go dancer, too. I called myself 'Grace Mendoza' to fool my parents.