Quotes About Youth

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.

When I was in school I used to prank my teachers all the time. But I was really, really nice. I love to make people laugh. And even in those pranks, the teachers would laugh most of the time.

Also consider that someday, when you're dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.

Tel Aviv is the most party time place in the world.

By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.

About time you grew up and became a vampire like the rest of us.

I think kids should be doing pickup or futsal all the time.

I think it is important to pass on the message to young people who are going through a difficult time with friends that it will pass.

Of course, when I started my career, like anyone else who was 16 at the time, we were besotted by the rock-n-roll scene from America, and all I was interested in was having a career of my own.

If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.

I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.

Come back, true love! Sweet youth, return!— But time goes on, and will, unheeding, Though hands will reach, and eyes will yearn, And the wild days set true hearts bleeding.

I wish I had more time to visit schools.

When I was a teen, or like 18 to early 20s, I used to go to festivals all the time. I'd save all my money.

Around the time the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, I was already in a band.

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.

I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.

The last time I saw you I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!

When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.

Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world.

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

Wasting time just going mindless, watching your charades. When you were younger, did it occur to you 10 years from then you'd act the same age?

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books

Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.