All Quotes

When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.
‐‐ Edgar Meyer

When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time.
‐‐ Heidi Klum

When I was younger, I had big visions of changing the world.
‐‐ Rick Danko

When I was younger, I had conversations with friends about wanting to create something different. Every young musician probably thinks that. But it's difficult to do, because there are only so many words, notes, melodies, songs. But as soon as I stopped thinking and started feeling, it worked. I didn't realize it till I was done.
‐‐ FKA twigs

When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
‐‐ Camilla Belle

When I was younger, I had pink underneath my hair, and I got detention. I went to an all-girls school where you wore a uniform, and pink hair was not OK.
‐‐ Gia Coppola

When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.
‐‐ Gareth Bale

When I was younger, I had terrible skin... my mother has terrible skin. Male-pattern hair loss is starting to come in... my dad is bald. It's so unfair; my brother's tall, has perfect skin, great hair, but I'm like the runt.
‐‐ Russell Tovey

When I was younger, I had this fairy tale that you can have the eight hours of sleep and be a healthy, balanced person and still achieve your goals. The reality is, that hasn't always been the case.
‐‐ Lilly Singh

When I was younger, I just liked the sound of different accents, and I used to just play around to see if I could do things. I hear accents like music, so that's what helps me to learn them.
‐‐ Cynthia Erivo

When I was younger, I just lived my life on paper. I didn't really live in the real world very much. As a consequence, I couldn't cope with the real world and real people very well. That in itself became life threatening, so I had to stop drawing so much and learn how to cope with people.
‐‐ Robert Crumb

When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning to get it done. I can only write for a few hours at a time; after that, my attention fades.
‐‐ Patrick Modiano

When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.
‐‐ Derrick Rose

When I was younger, I just thought that my plans were probably going to be more exciting than my parents' plans or the establishment. I sort of got by on being a little bit of a rebel.
‐‐ Amy Grant

When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.
‐‐ Cara Delevingne

When I was younger, I liked writing stories and watching younger actors on TV.
‐‐ Kiersey Clemons

When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny Bruce albums. But once I started doing fairly well, I didn't want to hear anybody's jokes or premises.
‐‐ Richard Lewis

When I was younger, I looked a lot older than I was. They have these working laws in England where you have to be 16: if you're over 16, you don't have to be restrained by working hours and things like that. In America, it's actually 18.
‐‐ Douglas Booth

When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I've found the exact opposite to be true. I find that I'm getting warmer, and that I'm more mystified by human interactions.
‐‐ Jon Brion

When I was younger, I looked to actors like they were from another planet. You couldn't believe you could be anywhere near that world. It was exciting. I kind of like that.
‐‐ Jim Sturgess

When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

When I was younger, I played sports and went to camp. As I got older, my parents began to instill in us the importance of giving back to the community, especially those places around the world that are less fortunate than my very privileged life growing up in Los Angeles.
‐‐ Katherine Schwarzenegger

When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist - he said that media had a responsibility, that all sectors of society had a responsibility to try and progress things and move things forward. And that fascinated me, because I'd been messing around with a camera most of my life.
‐‐ Jeremy Gilley

When I was younger, I read all the great food memoirs, by M.F.K. Fisher and Laurie Colwin and Julia Child and Nicolas Freeling and Ruth Reichl, and felt flooded with a sense of comfort and safety.
‐‐ Kate Christensen

When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence.
‐‐ Jurnee Smollett

When I was younger, I remember there was a really famous book, and it was called 'The People Could Fly.' And so this idea of, kind of like, black characters kind of jumping into space and kind of the challenge that they presented to gravity I thought was really interesting.
‐‐ Rashid Johnson

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.
‐‐ Jane Seymour

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.
‐‐ Peter Facinelli

When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.
‐‐ Lindsay Lohan

When I was younger, I suppose I was interested in checking out as much about writing as I could: bad, weird, irritating, even things not-to-my-taste. Now I am less open. I will decide after a few pages if I want to stay in the world of the book, and if I don't, I put it down. I have less time left.
‐‐ Susan Minot

When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.
‐‐ Anderson Cooper

When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure.
‐‐ Claire Forlani

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
‐‐ Tanya Tucker

When I was younger, I thought every kid was adopted because that's all I've known. I have everything I need, so I never felt the need to have answers for what happened.
‐‐ Simone Biles

When I was younger, I thought I had to shut myself off, work really hard to cry. I learned after a while that that's just not... You know, often in life, you cry when you're caught off-guard. That's where I need to be when I'm acting, too.
‐‐ Julianne Moore

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.
‐‐ Stockard Channing

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.
‐‐ Robbie Robertson

When I was younger, I thought LisaRaye sounded so country, but I've come to really appreciate my family-given name. I was named after my father, David Ray McCoy, and I'm totally a daddy's girl.
‐‐ LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

When I was younger, I thought maybe one day I'd be involved in sport in terms of career.
‐‐ Jamie Dornan

When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist.
‐‐ Grover Norquist

When I was younger, I thought that straight hair was, like, the only thing. So I was trying to be like Naomi Campbell or Tyra Banks. I didn't know that people would add hair for more length. I'm like, 'Oh all these people just have natural hair like this.' I obviously grew up and figured out that everyone does something to their hair.
‐‐ Jillian Hervey

When I was younger, I thought you had to be in control of your own life. That takes a lot of discipline, hard work and focus. You just can't let it all fall by the wayside. Later on, I learned that God is really in control of everything. But you still have to put your best foot forward and be the best you can possibly be.
‐‐ Janet Jackson

When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.
‐‐ Matthew Perry

When I was younger, I used to be a high jumper before I switched to hurdles.
‐‐ Liu Xiang

When I was younger, I used to be a part of the surfing-and-skateboarding community.
‐‐ Katy Perry

When I was younger I used to be devastated if I would lose.
‐‐ Kim Clijsters

When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.
‐‐ Vanessa Hudgens

When I was younger, I used to bite my nails so bad. I used to play sports; I played, like, every sport. I would be playing soccer, and I'd be in the middle of the field just zoned out, biting my nails, and I'd, like, miss the ball going past me.
‐‐ Kendall Jenner

When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really relax me and then put it on repeat. That would send me to sleep. It was quite obvious classical music, people like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel.
‐‐ King Krule

When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.
‐‐ Levon Helm

When I was younger, I used to find stories about divas charming. Not much anymore.
‐‐ Rabih Alameddine

When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the day. I usually finish work at half past seven, then go back to the house to open a bottle of wine, have dinner, and then read or watch television.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I've grown to really appreciate the German people.
‐‐ Anthony Kiedis

When I was younger, I used to look at movie stars with pencil-thin noses and think about a nose job. I've got a grown-up baby nose; it's not chiseled and structured. Then I saw how beautiful Audrey Tatou was in 'Amelie' and thought, 'She's got a nose like mine, and if she can have a baby nose, so can I.'
‐‐ Martine McCutcheon

When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
‐‐ Vincent D'Onofrio

When I was younger, I used to play mind games in which I'd try to finish tasks in minutes. My favorite was when I would shower, lay out my school clothes, then devour my dinner - in 15 minutes flat.
‐‐ Alexa Von Tobel

When I was younger, I used to say, One day I'll be famous.
‐‐ Katie Price

When I was younger ,I used to want to be, like, a back-up dancer, and my mom was like, 'Well, you know, you can do that, but you might want to choose another career.'
‐‐ Sufe Bradshaw

When I was younger I used to want to own a sweet shop so I could eat sweets all day, but that dream died a long time ago.
‐‐ Amy Nuttall

When I was younger, I used to watch all the black-and-white 'Dracula's and 'Frankenstein's.
‐‐ Sean Bean

When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation.
‐‐ Dhani Jones

When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've made a terrible mistake.'
‐‐ Kelly Reilly