All Quotes

I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang.
‐‐ Robert Carlyle

I was 16 years old, and I was just flailing around, looking for an interest. I heard, you know, these jazz records. They were modern records, at the time in the '50s, and I realized that I didn't fully get what was going on. But I liked a lot of what I heard.
‐‐ Harvey Pekar

I was 16 years old and wanted to help my mom with the rent. There was a restaurant called China Buffet in Tampa that hung a 'Help Wanted' sign outside, so I went in and ended up hosting every Friday and Sunday for $6 or $7 an hour.
‐‐ Michelle Phan

I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.
‐‐ Nick Cannon

I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.
‐‐ Jared Harris

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.
‐‐ Alan Parsons

I was 17 and the whole thing was very confusing at the time. It was a great job and I loved it, and to lose the role was definitely tough for me. I was devastated when I lost the role.
‐‐ Sarah Chalke

I was 17 pounds when I was born. My mother couldn't walk for three weeks.
‐‐ Art Donovan

I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.
‐‐ Erik Hassle

I was 17 when I decided to write stories as big as cathedrals, overflowing with the kind of memorable and audacious characters Walker Percy, Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow created.
‐‐ Philip Schultz

I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.
‐‐ Patrick Dempsey

I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.
‐‐ Sydney Wayser

I was 17 when my body started changing, and I worried about what I did wrong. I went through a period where I didn't eat at all. I also had someone who was encouraging me to take diet pills. I pushed myself to the extreme because I woke up one day and had hips - and a butt - and thought, 'Oh my gosh, I'm getting fat!'
‐‐ Shantel VanSanten

I was 17 when Peter Jackson asked me to be in 'Heavenly Creatures.'
‐‐ Kate Winslet

I was 17 years old and in my first band, and we played at the university. I was kind of a gawky, unpopular teenager and there was about 400 people smiling and dancing to what we were doing.
‐‐ Sarah McLachlan

I was 17 years old when I built the first store... A very simple, basic store with a basic counter - not very much equipment, all purchased second-hand. And the menu was very simple.
‐‐ Fred DeLuca

I was 175 pounds at 13 years old and 5 feet tall.
‐‐ Jillian Michaels

I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it.
‐‐ Jamie Sives

I was 18, at art school, and saw this cute boy playing banjo. I was obsessed. I taught myself how to play. I listened to a lot of country and just messed around. The second song I wrote on the banjo was 'Good to Be a Man.' That what's got me signed.
‐‐ Elle King

I was 18 when I did 'The Amanda Show,' and I was 19 when I did 'MadTV,' and I was in way over my head. I was just sort of a goof who could do impressions of WB stars - speaking of the Dawson Van Der Beek era - and it was overwhelming. I don't think I've learned more faster in my life than when I worked on 'MadTV.'
‐‐ Taran Killam

I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find.
‐‐ Ferran Adria

I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.
‐‐ David Hockney

I was 18 when I got my first acting job.
‐‐ Jaime Winstone

I was 18 when I got my first TV job.
‐‐ Andrea Arnold

I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but I thought: 'What the hell?' So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it.
‐‐ Aziz Ansari

I was 18 years old when I booked 'Youth in Revolt,' and it was my first movie, and I was starring in that movie - and even then, I didn't feel like I had made it.
‐‐ Portia Doubleday

I was 19 when I discovered Pilates, and I'm still doing it. It's the workout my body really responds to. It's all about alignment, elongating your spine, and strengthening your core. It makes me feel my strongest.
‐‐ Kate Hudson

I was 19 when I got my first passport as an adult. I had moved from California to New York City and was living out of a suitcase, staying with friends. I'd just finished filming my first movie, 'Ordinary People,' but I didn't know whether acting was what I wanted to do with my life.
‐‐ Timothy Hutton

I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led what was by all appearances a risk-free life. But he was overweight, and heart disease runs in our family.
‐‐ Alex Honnold

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
‐‐ Adam Oates

I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.
‐‐ Richard Briers

I was 20 when I moved to Los Angeles. I went on probably 600 commercial auditions and couldn't book any of them.
‐‐ Dax Shepard

I was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife's pregnancy. I was going to be the perfect father. Once she was born, it was suddenly, 'Oh, my God! I'm a parent!'
‐‐ Kiefer Sutherland

I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.
‐‐ Tina Yothers

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.
‐‐ Barney Ross

I was 20 years old when, despite mass protests against military action, Iraq was invaded in 2003 - it didn't make for motivated political participation, I can tell you.
‐‐ Romola Garai

I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.
‐‐ Cory Monteith

I was 21 and had been going out with my boyfriend for two years when I found out I was pregnant - despite being told by doctors that I was sterile. Jamie's father and I hadn't discussed marriage, and to me, it wasn't something to be entered into just to stop gossip.
‐‐ Joanna Lumley

I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.
‐‐ Lykke Li

I was 21 and I got to film with my best friend.
‐‐ Nicole Richie

I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.
‐‐ Bill Pullman

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years.
‐‐ Marlee Matlin

I was 22 and had worked on Wall Street for a year, and quit my job. I bought a motorcycle and sort of had this fantasy that I'd go cross-country like 'Easy Rider.' I went from New York to L.A., and on the way back, I stopped in Chicago and saw a friend of mine who was into improv. And I figured it might be fun to give it a shot.
‐‐ Jon Favreau

I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.
‐‐ Annie Baker

I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

I was 22 years old when I asked Christ to come into my heart. You cannot be born a Christian; you can only be converted. And that is by putting your faith and trust in Christ.
‐‐ Franklin Graham

I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.
‐‐ David Edwards

I was 23, and he was 86. I saw a very sick man. I just wanted to just talk with him. There was no physical attraction at all. He was very much attracted to me.
‐‐ Anna Nicole Smith