All Quotes

When I was 17, I broke up with my future wife.
‐‐ Kris Allen

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.
‐‐ Julia Bacha

When I was 17, I decided I was going to leave home.
‐‐ Zach Roerig

When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent. No faces, voices, nothing like that. It is like the world burst and flamed into life all around me. That is not a great image, but it is as good as I will ever do.
‐‐ Barbara Ehrenreich

When I was 17, I had my first proper girlfriend, and on Valentine's Day, I painted a canvas of her, bought her a massage, put flowers on the stairs, and ran a bath.
‐‐ Tom Cullen

When I was 17 I interned at a school, and it was the most exhausting, difficult thing I've ever done, with all these screaming children.
‐‐ Lucy Punch

When I was 17, I listened to reggae music. I loved Bob Marley. I started growing dreadlocks. It's always been my way, that the outside matches what's going on with me inside.
‐‐ Matisyahu

When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.
‐‐ Hans-Ulrich Obrist

When I was 17 I sent a picture up to an agency, and within a week I was in The Sun five days in a row.
‐‐ Katie Price

When I was 17, I signed my record deal and passed my driver's test. It was a very good year!
‐‐ Conor Maynard

When I was 17, I studied at RADA in London for the summer. I wanted to live abroad and to pursue drama, so it seemed like the perfect opportunity. I thought I may as well throw myself in at the deep end. My first big role is in 'Starlet.'
‐‐ Dree Hemingway

When I was 17, I taught music; I had 65 students a week, and I did that for a year. So that's pretty regular. But it was great to give the gift of music to people, seeing them learn. It's great to influence young people in a creative way.
‐‐ Matt Schulze

When I was 17, I used to really think about what I wore every day.
‐‐ Edie Campbell

When I was 17, I was a Lakers Girl; I was the youngest girl on the squad.
‐‐ Moon Bloodgood

When I was 17, I was always hanging out with the older kids, and a lot of times, the kids that graduated would come back and play pranks. I was a huge, huge, huge prankster.
‐‐ Tristan Wilds

When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me to join them at their table. They were fascinated that I'd watched their programme on existentialism back home and wanted to understand nothingness and being.
‐‐ Jerry Hall

When I was 17, I was excited to graduate from high school!
‐‐ Tyler Blackburn

When I was 17, I was hyperactive and annoyed my teachers.
‐‐ Keegan Allen

When I was 17, I was so shy I could barely speak or introduce myself to anyone.
‐‐ Trevor Donovan

When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.
‐‐ Seymour Cassel

When I was 17, I went to India for six weeks and had what, at the time, was a very challenging trip. You walk down the street and you see lepers and beggars, and there were several of us, a group of Americans. I remember we were just trying to park one night somewhere and people were just sleeping in the parking lot.
‐‐ Chris Hughes

When I was 17, I worked at a bagel shop - I ate so many! I was also in all the school musicals, which we rehearsed for during the afternoons.
‐‐ Jenna Ushkowitz

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When I was 17, my producer Rodney Jerkins was working with Michael Jackson at the time. He knew how much I wanted to meet Michael Jackson, so he says, 'Would you like to come and meet him?' I'm like, 'Are you serious? Of course I want to meet Michael Jackson! Where do I meet you? Where do we come?'
‐‐ Brandy Norwood

When I was 17 or 18 and it was time to figure out what to do with my life, I realized that I didn't enjoy anything as much as I enjoyed playing music. I felt that I had no choice: that I had to become a musician.
‐‐ David Sanborn

When I was 17 or 18, I realised I could do something with boxing.
‐‐ Liam Smith

When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'
‐‐ Gary Vaynerchuk

When I was 17 years old, Frank DiLeo saw my very first music video and flew to my hometown of Las Vegas to meet with my family and me. Frank told my dad, 'I am coming out of retirement to manage one last big act: Manika.'
‐‐ Manika

When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.
‐‐ Lil Mama

When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business.
‐‐ Scott Caan

When I was 18, 19, I was presented as the 'aw shucks' Nebraska kid who's coming up with a big serve, and then I flipped out a couple of times, and then I was ueber-brat, when I feel like there's parts of both, but I don't think I am either one, if that makes sense.
‐‐ Andy Roddick

When I was 18, and my looks were what I was - and all that I was - it did feel very limiting.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy.
‐‐ David Suchet

When I was 18, and when I entered my family business, I soon realised that it wasn't as easy as I thought. I had to deal with people of my father's generation. Building trust was key to doing business.
‐‐ Binod Chaudhary

When I was 18 at the Santa Ana River Jetty is where I put my first board in the water that I ever got from Joe Quigg. I was just riding the whitewater in, and I was just in heaven.
‐‐ Dick Dale

When I was 18, I broke my leg, and my shin came right through - like I had two knees.
‐‐ Tony McCoy

When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
‐‐ Laura Fraser

When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.
‐‐ Marla Maples

When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
‐‐ Caitriona Balfe

When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist's life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city.
‐‐ Christian de Portzamparc

When I was 18, I moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA.
‐‐ Sofia Carson

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.
‐‐ Frank Butler

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.
‐‐ David Bowie

When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw for a teenager: there were no cellphones, no Internet, and the only music I had with me was this cassette by Liz Phair. I was writing a lot of poetry, and she embodied a talky style of songwriting that I found very accessible.
‐‐ Jenny Lewis

When I was 18, I was halfway up the Eiffel Tower with my friend, Tom, when we decided to stick our heads through the railings. The gap between the railings was exactly the right size to be able to put your head through and nearly get stuck. Which is exactly what happened.
‐‐ Robert Webb

When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.
‐‐ Paul Wesley

When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of college in Toronto and wasn't happy there. I didn't have any friends in New York City, but I applied and got in. It was pretty overwhelming, but everyone in New York is so ambitious and creative.
‐‐ Stacey Farber

When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.
‐‐ Claire Danes

When I was 18, I went to India and was stupid enough to drink the tap water. I ended up with dysentery. It's not an experience I wish to go through again.
‐‐ Tom Parker Bowles

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.
‐‐ Alice Walker