All Quotes

When I was 14, I saw 'Waiting for Godot.' It's one of those plays that if it's done badly is absolutely dire and can put you off acting for life. But I was laughing all the way through it.
‐‐ Kit Harington

When I was 14, I thought, 'How wonderful to be a science fiction writer. I'd like to do that.' I have never lost touch with that ambitious 14-year-old, and I can't help chuckling and thinking, 'You did it, and you did it right.'
‐‐ Robert Silverberg

When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.
‐‐ Marina Abramovic

When I was 14, I thought I was the coolest kid in school because I told everyone the jokes in FHM.
‐‐ Megan Fox

When I was 14, I told all the girls in my class that I wanted to be the first woman prime minister. Someone else beat me to that!
‐‐ Cherie Blair

When I was 14, I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.
‐‐ Helen McCrory

When I was 14, I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16.
‐‐ Mark E. Smith

When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
‐‐ Quincy Jones

When I was 14, I was on the cover of 'Bop' and 'Tiger Beat.' Every two months, I would see a new kid's face, and I remember saying, 'This is not something that lasts very long.'
‐‐ Leonardo DiCaprio

When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since.
‐‐ Shirley Temple

When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.
‐‐ Steve Burns

When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
‐‐ Quincy Jones

When I was 14, in Cuba, I met Fidel Castro with my dad, and it was really impressive. And on a totally different level, I met Justin Timberlake!
‐‐ Dylan Penn

When I was 14, my dad came home one day and told us he had cancer. It was looking pretty bad. And I remember him saying how afraid he was that he hadn't gotten to do the things he wanted to do during his life. He had surgery and survived. And he's still alive today, thank God. But it made a big impact on me.
‐‐ Jeffrey Skoll

When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of intestinal operations, and was in the hospital for nearly a year. So the four of us teenagers lived by ourselves in the apartment without a guardian.
‐‐ Bonnie Bedelia

When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz

When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.
‐‐ Elizabeth Olsen

When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.
‐‐ Dermot Healy

When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.
‐‐ Dom DeLuise

When I was 14 years old, I had the opportunity to meet Buddy Holly. I asked him how he got that big, powerful sound out of his guitar amp. He said, 'I blew a speaker and decided not to get it fixed.'
‐‐ Robbie Robertson

When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004.
‐‐ Emma Stone

When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em.
‐‐ Evan Dando

When I was 14 years old, I was crazy about Dr. Seuss. I loved the words he made up, and I just thought, 'Well, if he can make up words, then I can make up words.'
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

When I was 14 years old, I was with my parents at a restaurant. Some people came in and said, 'Would you like to be a model?' I went to see them, and they said, 'You have to lose seven kilos.' I said, 'No, I want to eat French fries.'
‐‐ Nora Arnezeder

When I was 14 years old, I went on location to film 'Mrs. Doubtfire' for five months, and my high school was not happy. My job meant an increased workload for teachers, and they were not equipped to handle a 'non-traditional' student. So, during filming, they kicked me out.
‐‐ Lisa Jakub

When I was 15, 16, 17 years old, I spent five hours a day juggling, and I probably spent six hours a day seriously listening to music. And if I were 16 now, I would put that time into playing video games.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

When I was 15, 16, I studied with Stella Adler at the Conservatory of Acting, then I stopped again and went to the Actors Studio when I was 18.
‐‐ Robert De Niro

When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks.
‐‐ Rivers Cuomo

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.
‐‐ Agnetha Faltskog

When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.
‐‐ Valerie June

When I was 15, I came downstairs one morning, picked up mother's newspaper and, oh, what a shock! The Titanic had gone. The 'unsinkable' ship - but it had gone down so simple.
‐‐ Henry Allingham

When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name.
‐‐ Portia de Rossi

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.
‐‐ Constance Baker Motley

When I was 15, I decided to take up the sport seriously, so I went down to the Y.M.C.A. My first day there, this little Italian guy beat my brains out. I decided to quit. Then I realized I really wanted to be a fighter. I worked at it, went back, and that little Italian guy didn't beat me up no more.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.
‐‐ Maurice Jarre

When I was 15, I didn't think I was the prettiest at all. But then something happened when I was 20-something - I thought, actually, I really like what I look like. Just because I don't look like everybody else doesn't mean that I can't be just as beautiful.
‐‐ Cynthia Erivo

When I was 15, I got a job at the first Hollister that opened up.
‐‐ Jessica Stroup

When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.
‐‐ Danica McKellar

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
‐‐ Paul Simon

When I was 15, I never thought I'd live to see 21. And then I became 21, and I'm like, 'I'll never live to see 30.'
‐‐ Jane Wiedlin

When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.
‐‐ Sachin Tendulkar

When I was 15, I talked to Liam Neeson because I was the only one of my friends ballsy enough to engage him.
‐‐ Awkwafina

When I was 15, I was asked to do 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at school, and it fundamentally changed my life. It's obviously an extraordinarily diverse and potentially electrifying part. It's a big leading part, and I hadn't really played anything like that before; I was the one doing the comedy side bit.
‐‐ Rory Kinnear

When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.
‐‐ Kim Wilde

When I was 15, I was scouted at the mall by Elite Model Management. I started to go to New York on the bus in high school, which was about four hours door-to-door from my hometown, until I moved to New York and lived in models' apartments all over.
‐‐ Krysten Ritter

When I was 15, I was wearing sandals and corduroys, Guernsey, striped pullover, a beard that was hardly there, shades and a beret, and the goal was hanging out.
‐‐ Roy Harper

When I was 15, I was working for a radio band in Shreveport. Cliff Bruner, the hottest Texas fiddler of them all, was on the same package shows, playing for Jimmie Davis.
‐‐ Johnny Gimble

When I was 15, I went on a cricket tour of Zimbabwe with my school. My defining memory of it was stroking a semi-tame lioness at a game reserve. I grew up on a farm, so I felt I had an affinity with animals, and when it put a paw out, I thought I'd connected with it. But its claws came out and nicked my leg. Then I did the most stupid thing: I ran.
‐‐ Rupert Evans

When I was 15, I wore combat boots with a fluorescent Columbia ski jacket. I was trying to find myself.
‐‐ Eric Wareheim

When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
‐‐ Adam DeVine

When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!
‐‐ Ashley Greene