Young Quotes

"My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job"

Jensen Ackles, Actor

"Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse"

Cesar Romero, Actor

"Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully"

Fay Weldon, Novelist

"More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people"

Elijah Cummings, Politician

"Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future"

Mark Foley, Politician

"So there was always a stunt coordinator on those films that was from Stunts Unlimited and I was just one of the young warriors from Stunts Unlimited that got to be a part of it because it was a big show and they needed a lot of guys"

David R. Ellis, Director

"When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980"

Jacques Rivette, Director

"But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me"

Jack Vance, Author

"It was like an older but better version of Young Talent Time because we had more time to spend on it. There were three guys and three girls and we made thirteen episodes that were sold in the United States and Canada"

Dannii Minogue, Musician

"I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it"

Hilary Duff, Actress

"I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I'm quite proud that I've had fun with fashion and don't always look perfect. The only regret I have is when I look at something I wore when I was very young and it obviously looks like it belonged to someone else"

Emma Watson, Actress

"I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young"

Cornelia Funke, Author

"If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration"

Daniel Greenberg, Educator

"I was looking at making a shift in my career. I've been so blessed I'd like to be able to give that back. If I could find young artists, young performers I can nurture to have a career I would really like that"

Diana Ross, Actress

"The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed"

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Author

"Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young"

Anna Lee, Actress

"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader"

David Foster Wallace, Writer

"For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world"

Donnie Wahlberg, Actor

"It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people"

Avery Brundage, Athlete

"That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that"

Brian Clough, Athlete

"A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater"

Christy Mathewson, Athlete

"What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences"

Abbe Pierre, Priest

"I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care"

Broderick Crawford, Actor

"The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect"

Bill Frist, Politician

"If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well"

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Politician

"Even in relationships, I don't get my hopes up or anything, especially not right now because I know I'm young and I've got plenty of time later in the future"

Christina Milian, Musician

"I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care"

Dominic Monaghan, Actor

"Maybe it was all those wild times that kept me young"

Burt Ward, Actor

"We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species"

Andrew Vachss, Author

"When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue"

Anthony Holden, Journalist

"But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment"

Fanny Burney, Novelist

"I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity"

Emma Watson, Actress

"Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated"

Dianne Wiest, Actress

"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind"

Broderick Crawford, Actor

"My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age"

Brian Austin Green, Actor

"I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it"

Claire Danes, Actress

"So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him"

Archie Shepp, Musician

"A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music"

Archie Shepp, Musician

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