All Quotes

When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.'
‐‐ Hank Azaria

When I was young in the business, I felt anything I wanted to buy personally and professionally was always too expensive.
‐‐ Mickey Drexler

When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have risked failing. It would have felt much harder.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini

When I was young, it was fun being in the locker room and shagging balls in the outfield in spring training. But I couldn't keep my attention on the games for more than 30 minutes. I would sit there with my Game Boy the whole game.
‐‐ Shane Larkin

When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.
‐‐ Victor Cruz

When I was young, many people didn't know what figure skating was. Some who knew of it thought of it as dancing on ice. But, as I entered international competitions and got good results, many people got to know more about it and came to cheer for me.
‐‐ Kim Yuna

When I was young, many people worked for a company with a pension plan that covered them for as long as they lived. If they didn't have a pension plan, they could count on Social Security and Medicare.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
‐‐ Jim Henson

When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, 'If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!' And then the roller rink, and you work your way up branch by branch.
‐‐ Neil Peart

When I was young, my dad always let me listen to comedy albums.
‐‐ Leslie Jones

When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.
‐‐ Jenny Lawson

When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.
‐‐ Frederick Sanger

When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times.
‐‐ Rick Riordan

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
‐‐ Patrice Leconte

When I was young, my mom realized I could dance and hold a beat, and I really danced just for fun. It was good exercise.
‐‐ Tom Holland

When I was young, my mother would not let me get my ears pierced because I used to get into too many fights.
‐‐ Kelly Hu

When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.
‐‐ Arthur Darvill

When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.
‐‐ Judy Blume

When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.
‐‐ James Wolk

When I was young, my parents were these titanic, infallible figures. But Mum's illness and Dad's battles with diabetes and heart attacks had a ripple effect on me - reminding me of my own mortality and that these illnesses are genetic.
‐‐ Sam Worthington

When I was young, my voice was so strong, and I would annoy people because I had such a loud little voice. And then it changed, and I thought I wouldn't be able to sing again, because I thought you had to sing like Christina Aguilera to be a singer.
‐‐ Skylar Grey

When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.
‐‐ Sade Adu

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.
‐‐ Lyndon B. Johnson

When I was young, running with a gang was a cool thing to do; that's how you get popular; that's how you get the girls.
‐‐ Martin Compston

When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
‐‐ Rain

When I was young, Tchaikovsky was ruined for me by conductors who made it slick and treacly. Hearing Valery Gergiev conduct Tchaikovsky has been a revelation - he brings out all its raw passion. And Gergiev with the super-virtuoso LSO - well, it's just the perfect combination.
‐‐ Charles Hazlewood

When I was young, there was no such thing as YA. You simply went from reading children's novels to reading adult novels. So one year, I was reading Tove Jansson, and the next year, I was reading Stephen King.
‐‐ Matt Haig

When I was young, there was only one TV channel, sponsored by the government, and it only broadcast things like what the leader had for breakfast. There was no real media.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

When I was young, there weren't any teenage girls I could relate to in film. They were all put in boxes: the virginal good girl, the really sarcastic asexual one. I wanted to do something that represented how I felt then.
‐‐ Bel Powley

When I was young, they just gave me the lead. And when I got old, they wouldn't see me at all.
‐‐ Polly Bergen

When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched. That was something I not only felt, but I participated in.
‐‐ Nate Parker

When I was young, we didn't have indie games. We had 'garage developers' or similar terms, who were just small teams making games out of passion.
‐‐ Markus Persson

When I was young, we had nothing. The carpets and upholstery in the palace were full of holes. The floors creaked. Everything was so old. Yes, we had a piano, an upright given to us by the Fine Arts Department. But it was out of tune.
‐‐ Bhumibol Adulyadej

When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
‐‐ Yao Ming

When I was younger, acting, singing, and dancing was what it was all about.
‐‐ Suki Waterhouse

When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class in New York and became obsessed with that.
‐‐ Chaley Rose

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.
‐‐ Adam Sandler

When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.
‐‐ Victoria Justice

When I was younger and in primary school, I'd do maybe a film a year, and I had to adapt to being away from everyone for a couple of months.
‐‐ Saoirse Ronan

When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.
‐‐ Prince William

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.
‐‐ Matt LeBlanc

When I was younger and women first started to get in public positions, in my case the law, we went through a period where we wore those little ribbon ties, little bows. We tried to figure out what was our appropriate dress.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

When I was younger, before I was born, I lost my twin, so I think I've always had a fascination for telepathy or the way that twins act and react with each other.
‐‐ Sophie Turner

When I was younger, before I was married and had children, I really was nit-picky, a perfectionist. I was very much into different people's approval. I had too much time on my hands, I think.
‐‐ Nia Peeples

When I was younger, coming up in this industry, I was 17, 18 years old. You couldn't tell me Beyonce wasn't my friend. You couldn't tell me that Janet Jackson wasn't my girl. You couldn't tell me that once I signed to my label that me and J.Lo weren't going to have tea in L.A.
‐‐ Lil Mama

When I was younger, everyone thought I was Courteney Cox.
‐‐ Amy Landecker