Young Quotes

"I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities"

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"When we're young we have a very clear vision of how life is supposed to be, and it all seems very neatly packaged"

Andrew Shue, Actor

"Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?"

Andrew Shue, Actor

"Given that there was that era of girl group music and it's still very popular, but I think if you looked at the chart from that time you would see many more men on it. Because the industry, they were catering to young girls. I mean, that's what they thought their audience was"

Lesley Gore, Musician

"I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!"

Dominic Monaghan, Actor

"There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians"

Dave Van Ronk, Musician

"Political movements always belong to the young"

Harvey Fierstein, Actor

"Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training"

Fay Godwin, Photographer

"The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not"

Emma Thompson, Actress

"Asthma research is a lot better and new medicines are always coming out to help young people"

Dominique Wilkins, Athlete

"I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari"

Bryan Ferry, Musician

"I am the young, edgy New Yorker"

Douglas Wilson, Entertainer

"Television is a young person's medium"

Bernard Cornwell, Novelist

"In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty"

Charlotte Smith, Poet

"You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future"

Andy Griffith, Actor

"You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later"

Alec Baldwin, Actor

"There is no sinner like a young saint"

Aphra Behn, Dramatist

"I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"I've become a much more serious young insect"

Andrew Denton, Comedian

"People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them"

Aharon Appelfeld, Novelist

"A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years"

Rupert Brooke, Poet

"We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams"

Lenny Wilkens

"Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work"

Paddy Chayefsky, Playwright

"There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process"

Kurt Angle

"As long as I love Beauty I am young"

W. H. Davies, Poet

"I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates"

Marc Almond, Musician

"Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy"

Johnny Winter, Musician

"The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people"

Georg Solti, Musician

"People ask me who he reminds me of. The way he's playing, I'd say he doesn't remind me of anybody. I've never seen anybody - running back, quarterback, wide receiver - make the plays that Vince Young made today"

Dan Fouts, Athlete

"I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that"

Edie Falco, Actress

"My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between"

Tom Chapin, Musician

"I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world"

Samuel Dash, Lawyer

"So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time"

Kitty Carlisle, Musician

"We get these overzealous young men and their girlfriends. It's happened occasionally where one of them will lean up against the front of the stage and the guy is behind her, and it starts off as just dancing and then it gets into something more"

Chris Frantz, Musician

"My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside"

Aaron Klug, Physicist

"Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me"

Jack Layton, Politician

"I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee"

Bella Abzug, Lawyer

"The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them"

Marv Levy, Coach

"We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him"

Margaret Whiting, Musician

"I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future"

Maurice Ashley, Celebrity

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