All Quotes

When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life with the big cats.
‐‐ Edward Hoagland

When I was 18, my mum gave me all the clothes she'd had made at the famous haute couture fashion label, House of Worth, in Paris. Of course, I eventually trashed them all.
‐‐ Trinny Woodall

When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.
‐‐ Mark E. Smith

When I was 18 years old, I had never before seen Australian film on the big screen.
‐‐ Gillian Armstrong

When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.
‐‐ Alicia Silverstone

When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.
‐‐ Guy Gavriel Kay

When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmother.
‐‐ Karen Bender

When I was 19, I celebrated my first Valentine's Day while being in a relationship. I was so excited, but didn't know what the rules were. What should I get him, or was I even supposed to get him something?
‐‐ Carly Craig

When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, 'Okay, this is something that I could take seriously.' When I came to Minneapolis, it just refined everything.
‐‐ Lizzo

When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
‐‐ Billy Joel

When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the time - can you imagine, in the middle of the IRA bombing campaigns? I saw an ad inviting Irish applicants for an induction course, so I signed up.
‐‐ Colm Toibin

When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.
‐‐ Andy Andrews

When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem.
‐‐ Tracey Gold

When I was 19 years old, I hitchhiked across the country to San Francisco.
‐‐ John Prendergast

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.
‐‐ Jim McKelvey

When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.
‐‐ Roald Dahl

When I was 20, 21 years old, I had just got married. Put yourself in my wife's shoes. All of these fans all across the world would have Donny Osmond burning - record-burning parties. They would put my albums and burn them.
‐‐ Donny Osmond

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.
‐‐ Ritchie Blackmore

When I was 20, I had these furrowed lines between my brows because I was always angry. And I was 20. I don't think that was a mark of age; it was just my personality.
‐‐ Amy Heckerling

When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
‐‐ Vince Clarke

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.
‐‐ Elisha Cuthbert

When I was 20, I used to go around telling stories, and I knew where I was comfortable - onstage, talking, making 'em laugh and listen to the weirdest things. I liked being the center of attention.
‐‐ Ron White

When I was 20, I wanted to be famous and win a Grammy and have people respect and love me.
‐‐ Andra Day

When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.
‐‐ Del Shannon

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.
‐‐ Linda Grant

When I was 20 I was like, 'I'm not a teenager anymore. I got this.' But when I look back I'm like, 'Oh no. Oh no. You did not.'
‐‐ Cassie Scerbo

When I was 20, I was living in the Alps, snowboarding and studying political science. I blew out my knee, and I began to realize my days in the sport were numbered; the reality was I would never be a pro.
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga

When I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn't work.
‐‐ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about Buddy Holly. And I loved pop bands that had absolutely no intellectual pretensions whatsoever. I loved the Monkees.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

When I was 20, journalists would ask me what I would do when I retire from waterpolo. For me this is not just a five- or ten-year-period in my life. This is life itself.
‐‐ Tibor Benedek

When I was 20, my husband at the time looked at me said, 'You're fat; go run.' There weren't a lot of tools at the end of the '70s to lose weight. It took me a while to realize what kind of exercise would make me happy and I would look forward to doing. And running became it.
‐‐ Kim Alexis

When I was 20, my mother died and I went off the rails a little bit. I kinda had my slightly dark period.
‐‐ James McCartney

When I was 20 or 21, I didn't... I won't say care about anything, but you're like in your own world - you made something that you always wanted to do, and then you kind of think only about your family and yourself.
‐‐ Thierry Henry

When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth.
‐‐ Bjork

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.
‐‐ Dave Brubeck

When I was 20, the idea of having a play on anywhere was just beyond my dreams.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

When I was 20 years old, I had no plans to ever be a filmmaker.
‐‐ Spike Jonze

When I was 20 years old, my mom flew me for my first Broadway audition for 'The Color Purple,' and I only found out about it because I knew that Fantasia was in it, and so I went online to ActorsEquity.com. I was not a part of the union, but I flew there for the audition, and the next week I made my Broadway debut!
‐‐ Todrick Hall

When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.
‐‐ Chantal Kreviazuk

When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work.
‐‐ Pia Zadora

When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.
‐‐ Zadie Smith

When I was 21 or 22, I realized I was never going to be something else - I had to be a musician. I can't commit to anything unless I love it.
‐‐ Chet Faker

When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.
‐‐ Tom Hanks

When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body.
‐‐ Eli Roth

When I was 22, I met with some janky manager, and she told me, 'You're never going to work at this weight.' I think I was a size 6 at the time. There is just this weird thing about how we perceive women in this country. I would love to be a part of breaking that down.
‐‐ Melissa McCarthy

When I was 22, I realised I wanted to be an inventor.
‐‐ Nick Woodman

When I was 22, I thought I couldn't wear heels because of my height.
‐‐ Rebecca Hall

When I was 22, I was having a ball!
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.
‐‐ James Altucher

When I was 22, I wasn't too proud to do anything. I was taking out trash, buying stinky vintage clothes, and pulling gross Kleenex out of the pockets.
‐‐ Sophia Amoruso