Quotes About Impressionable

There was something about me even at an early age that enjoyed charming and manipulating.

I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula.

The Jesuit boast, 'Give me the child for his first seven years, and I'll give you the man,' is no less accurate (or sinister) for being hackneyed.

I think it's probably a bad idea for young boys to see how they're being depicted in men's fantasies. It could get very dark. You could learn how to do things wrong.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

When I was 16 I'd watch 'The Godfather,' but I didn't think, 'Right, I'm going to go down the barber's and get some protection money off him.'

Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime

Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world.

The book was thick and red. It was almost thicker than it was wide, a thickness that somehow enhanced its bookishness. It was - to me aged 12 - quite clearly more of a book than most, if not all, of the paperbacks untidily stacked on the shelves of my father's study.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.

The child is the father of the man.

it was part of being very young that you overestimated the lightweights with charisma.

I never realized that a child is capable of remembering so well and of waiting so patiently

I am too easily swayed by every story I hear, or see, or witness, especially the tragic ones," she said. "I think this is going to be the story of my life. I'm going to be the girl who is too easily swayed by other people's stories.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.

When I was three and a half years old, I heard my big sister tell my mum that at school that day all the kids sat on the floor and watched 'The Neverending Story.' Having never heard of the movie, I concluded that this was what school must be: sitting cross legged on the floor listening to a never-ending story. Page after page.

I watched '12 Angry Men' when I was a kid. It blew me away definitely.

'The State' was a huge thing for me. I watched that and 'SNL' together when I was 15, 16.