All Quotes

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

When I was 15, if anything, I thought I was going to be a Delta bluesman, which is so ridiculous.
‐‐ James Bay

When I was 15, if Stephen Fry had advised me to trim my eyebrows with a Flymo, I would have given it serious consideration.
‐‐ Robert Webb

When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. That month, I drove my stepdad's Thunderbird Super Coupe into Manhattan every day, and I would crank Cypress Hill as I flew around the city, racing the taxis.
‐‐ Danny Masterson

When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.
‐‐ James McAvoy

When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change.
‐‐ John Lewis

When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.
‐‐ Canelo Alvarez

When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
‐‐ Karen Finerman

When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.
‐‐ Tommy Lasorda

When I was 15 years old, my cousin and I formed a singing group called The Altaires. And, because we became the most popular singing group in the Tri-State area, the rest of the group convinced me I should play the guitar - even though I didn't own one! So what happened was, my stepfather actually made my first electric guitar for me for $23!
‐‐ George Benson

When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kind of negative about everything.
‐‐ Cecily von Ziegesar

When I was 16 and arrived in France, I discovered chocolate mousse. I was crazy about the bread, too. Every morning, I'd go to the bakery and get a fresh croissant. It made me feel very sophisticated.
‐‐ Jerry Hall

When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket.
‐‐ Steve Valentine

When I was 16, at night I went to my high school and chucked rocks at the billboard sign and broke the light bulbs. That was fun.
‐‐ Christopher Mintz-Plasse

When I was 16 I'd watch 'The Godfather,' but I didn't think, 'Right, I'm going to go down the barber's and get some protection money off him.'
‐‐ Noel Gallagher

When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'
‐‐ Cameron Russell

When I was 16, I discovered jazzercise. And I thought it was the greatest thing since peanut butter and jelly.
‐‐ Lisa Rinna

When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'
‐‐ Leos Carax

When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life and death from another perspective. Every young person should be interested in that island. It's a beautiful place.
‐‐ Leos Carax

When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.
‐‐ Candace Cameron Bure

When I was 16, I got 'Jamon, Jamon.' Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.
‐‐ Penelope Cruz

When I was 16, I had a job on the cleaning crew at a local hospital. I wore a pink uniform and cleaned bathrooms and buffed the hallway linoleum. Oddly, I don't recall hating the job. I recall getting choked up at the end of the summer when I went to turn in my uniform and say goodbye to the ladies.
‐‐ Mary Roach

When I was 16, I knew I was gay. I loved a lot. But I lived as a straight guy, because there are people in my town who don't understand my story. I never told. I never wanted to show what was inside my heart.
‐‐ Domenico Dolce

When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film.
‐‐ David Suchet

When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet Theatre in New York. It all happened so fast - it was pretty unheard of that someone could train for so few years and become a professional at one of the most elite dance companies in the United States.
‐‐ Misty Copeland

When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.
‐‐ David Suchet

When I was 16, I played Tallulah in 'Bugsy Malone' at the Queen's Theatre. Me and five others shared a flat together in Blackheath. It was brilliant being 16 and living in London with my mates.
‐‐ Sheridan Smith

When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.
‐‐ Apparat

When I was 16, I spent a year pushing trollies around a car park, and that wasn't fun. I didn't love working in a supermarket; it wasn't for me. It is for some people, and that's totally cool.
‐‐ James Bay

When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.
‐‐ Jamie Campbell Bower

When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not-cut, but I've never changed it. It's a bit Byron, a bit Don Juan DeMarco and other things that I aspire to be.
‐‐ Jeremy Clarkson

When I was 16 I was fortunate enough to get Cosby and move to New York and shift my whole life. that had been my dream all along, and it came true.
‐‐ Lisa Bonet

When I was 16, I was in Boston and some friends said, 'You want to go to New York?,' I went with my roommate... These guys said, 'We're going to this club. Just don't go in the washroom.' It was CBGB. I had no idea what it was or the history of all the music. All I knew was this was my first 21-and-over club and I managed to get in!
‐‐ Stana Katic

When I was 16, I was like any other boy at that age who dreams of having a good physique.
‐‐ Rohit Shetty

When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.
‐‐ Alice Oswald

When I was 16, I was working on 'Arrested Development.' My memories of being 16 were just trying to keep up with school while doing the show and trying to be around all those people on the show, as much as I could.
‐‐ Michael Cera

When I was 16... I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because... they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.
‐‐ Steven Wright

When I was 16, nobody else talked like me. Nobody else sounded like me.
‐‐ Linda Hunt

When I was 16 or 17, anyone could have had me if they sang the right song and recruited me in the right way. Which is why I've always had a sneaking understanding for people who took the wrong route. That doesn't mean to say I took it or even contemplated it myself.
‐‐ John le Carre

When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!
‐‐ Illinois Jacquet

When I was 16 or 17, I remember kissing one of my first girlfriends, Kim Anderson, under a stairwell at Disneyland. I'll never forget that feeling.
‐‐ John Stamos

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.
‐‐ Paul Mooney

When I was 16 or 17, when I started, I never even considered not doing a project. I just wanted to work.
‐‐ Penelope Cruz

When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was 'Hunt for Red October' by Tom Clancy.
‐‐ Max Brooks

When I was 16 the first girl I had a crush on wasn't interested at all. I liked her from afar for ages, and when I eventually got the courage and told her, and she wasn't into me.
‐‐ Luke Pasqualino

When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of translator steel, 22 miles of copper wire, and I assembled a 6-kilowatt, 2.3 million electron accelerator in the garage.
‐‐ Michio Kaku

When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'
‐‐ Brenton Thwaites

When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you're too big and fat to do anything else.' Well, I took his advice. It was a quick way to get to the big leagues, and I've never regretted it.
‐‐ Joe Torre

When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.
‐‐ Tamsin Greig