Time, Aging & Legacy: Youth Quotes

"The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up"

Luke Wilson, Actor

"I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy"

Renee Fleming, Musician

Marion Zimmer Bradley, Writer

"Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out"

John Knowles, Novelist

"Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses"

Jena Malone, Actress

"As a child, I was always playing some generic child"

Susan Olsen, Actress

"When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so"

Solange Knowles, Actress

"In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone"

Alexis Korner, Musician

"I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom"

Lance Loud, Actor

"There are millions of kids who, naturally, if we could only remember how it is - you know, you resent authority, you are impatient for change, you want to fix things up"

Thomas Foran, Writer

"If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after"

Moon Unit Zappa, Musician

"In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train"

Bruce Catton, Historian

"In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here"

Penelope Spheeris, Director

"One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh"

Michael Aspel, Journalist

"I'm currently working on a Mind Siege for youth"

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

"I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs"

Stephen Collins, Actor

"I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that"

Lacey Chabert, Actress

"Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers"

James Ellroy, Writer

"I was a normal American nerd"

Jack Herer, Activist

"It is right and natural that generous minds, while in the twenties, should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age"

Eliza Dushku, Actress

"I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now"

D. W. Griffith, Director

"I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up"

Uma Thurman, Actress

"I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living, one would come to the know child"

Dick Francis, Author

"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

"I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid"

Dave Van Ronk, Musician

"I was a full foot taller than any child my age"

Kristen Johnston, Actress

"That's great because I know as a teenager, I didn't relate to a TV series where all people do is cheerlead and drink sodas on the weekend. So I think it'll be great if it can be seen by a few people at least"

Caroline Dhavernas, Actress

"At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again"

King Hussein, Royalty

"I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up"

Natalie Cole, Musician

"It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all"

Georges Courteline, Dramatist

"You know what, man? I don't have time to worry about what people think. I'm focused on the youth of America. I'm focused on the kids who are dressing like whores. Because that's the message in the media"

Stephen Baldwin, Actor

"I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird"

Uma Thurman, Actress

"In the summer we graduated, we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls"

Ed O'Neill, Actor

"Towards the end, it got really rough. I take my hat of to Alice, he's still doing it. This is probably more work than going on the road for 2-3 months. I wish I was 25 again!"

Michael Owen Bruce, Musician

"I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately"

Molly Ringwald, Actress

"I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it"

Jerry Doyle, Actor

"I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university"

Adam Faith, Musician

"Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood"

Beryl Bainbridge, Novelist

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