Quotes About Youth

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

Every generation of children has its private hero.

I didn't want to be a hero to kids; I didn't think I had that. I just wanted to be popular.

By the time we're adults, our ideas have solidified. So I wanted to write for a younger audience, who would perhaps love heroes from other cultures.

I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

Growing up my heroes were American motocross riders. I didn't want to be a drummer; I wanted to be a motocross rider.

When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.

Green Day were heroes of mine growing up.

You know how kids will wait outside after a gig and try to get an autograph from the band? I would do that, but when I found the guitar player, I would say, 'What advice can you give me?' And a lot of my heroes would say, 'Have your own style.' I always kept that in my head.

When you're younger, you're going to be cast as the heroic, earnest leading man.

I like 'Girlhood' because it has this universal feeling, and that's also the project of the film, to bring very contemporaneous characters into the big fiction, and the classical idea of a heroine's emancipation.

I was just 15 years old when I did my first film, 'Faulad,' in 1963, opposite Dara Singh. Although I had worked earlier as a child actress, this was my first break as a lead heroine.

I never stopped being a heroine. I began acting when I was four and bagged my first film as a heroine at the age of 15.

I lived on an ashram in India at 12 and later I was a heroine in a Bollywood movie - I'm not telling you the name because I was terrible.

In films, usually we see romantic relationships between a hero and a heroine all the time. But we rarely see love between the older generations.

Liv never wanted to be a hellion. From an early age, she used to make all these wish lists for herself and then try to live up to them.

We are firm on bringing the Navodaya schools to T.N. and if need arises we will not hesitate to agitate.

Rock 'n' roll says, 'Hey, man, this is where you can be normal,' and then after a while you grow up and you go, 'Wait a minute. Oh, by the way, I learned how to do these cool things, but I never learned how to speak my mind. I never learned how to express myself emotionally. I should have been paying attention more.'

I have come a long way from a girl with pigtails and acne showing up and going, 'Hey guys, I'm here! Where do you want me to fall over?'

Hey, it isn't bad that I look young.

'SpongeBob,' 'Hey Arnold!,' 'Rocket Power.' I watched all those shows, man.

When you are young, you need to know the reality because when you are in your bubble, you believe that, always, all you do is right. And sometimes you need people who say, 'Hey, come on, what happened with you?'

I want the next 16-year-old kid who looks like me to know he's not automatically the bad guy. Hopefully, that kid can look at Mustafa Ali and say, 'Hey, he's not the bad guy, and I don't have to be, either.'

Hey, I was one of those hip-hop kids who used to hate on things that would become popular.