All Quotes

When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told me as I was becoming a man: 'You don't go picking fights, but you don't run from any of them.' And I was more afraid of my father than anybody else I had to fight.
‐‐ Nate Robinson

When I was younger, I was a complete tomboy. Then in college I started emerging out of the tomboy stage and dressing differently.
‐‐ Hope Solo

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.
‐‐ Chris Evert

When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.
‐‐ Daniel Alarcon

When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor.
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o

When I was younger, I was always being told I had a period face, but 'Bel Ami' was my first shot at it.
‐‐ Holliday Grainger

When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.
‐‐ Alfred Molina

When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox

When I was younger, I was always obsessed with nails.
‐‐ Serena Williams

When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.
‐‐ Derek Jeter

When I was younger, I was always willing to tell a joke and play out a scene. I would get sticks and pretend they were light sabers. I think it was just at a young age, I was so willing to jump up and perform a little play at the family picnic.
‐‐ Sufe Bradshaw

When I was younger, I was ambitious. Now I'm not ambitious anymore. I just want to be happy. Does that make sense?
‐‐ James McBride

When I was younger, I was chubby. It gave me a terrible sense of self-image, and I guess I carry that around with me still.
‐‐ Brandon Flowers

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.
‐‐ Gyorgy Ligeti

When I was younger, I was diagnosed with dyslexia, which meant, for me, sitting in front of a book was really hard - until I discovered Harry Potter, and this character, this 11-year-old boy, who suddenly gets off to school for the first time, captured my imagination, and suddenly reading was fun. Reading was inspiring, and I was motivated.
‐‐ Princess Beatrice of York

When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.
‐‐ David Harsanyi

When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
‐‐ Lars von Trier

When I was younger I was fat. I was never conscious of it and was content with who I was because I was so loved. My mother never told me to lose weight and my father doted on me, but my agent told me. I tried, but I loved Indian food too much.
‐‐ Archie Panjabi

When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.
‐‐ Colin O'Donoghue

When I was younger, I was impressed by those who were educated, accomplished, successful, and applauded by the world. But over the years, I have come to the realization that I am far more impressed by those wonderful and blessed souls who are truly good and without guile.
‐‐ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.
‐‐ Terri Windling

When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
‐‐ Jack Whitehall

When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know more. I was completely naive, and I was like, 'Why can't I do anything I want to do?'
‐‐ Carole King

When I was younger, I was like, 'I want to be on Playboy.' My mum was a Playmate.
‐‐ Sophie Monk

When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.
‐‐ Serj Tankian

When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life.
‐‐ Temple Grandin

When I was younger, I was more self-conscious about living up to or surpassing the expectations of others. But as you get older, you start to build confidence.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

When I was younger, I was nervous and didn't have a huge amount of confidence as an actor. Comedy is something - you know when you're getting it right because you can hear. And you can hear if you're not getting it right! I like to create interesting, weird characters, and they're often best in comedies.
‐‐ Lucy Punch

When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.
‐‐ Todd Phillips

When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time.
‐‐ Joan Armatrading

When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.
‐‐ Joy Bryant

When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Limelight in New York, and I would see people and be able to freeze them with a look. People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.
‐‐ Johnny Ramone

When I was younger, I was really anti-Hollywood. Now I'm more accepting of it because I'm less of a snob.
‐‐ Chloe Sevigny

When I was younger I was really shy, but I'd always be singing, driving my family crazy. Apparently I was even singing when I was in the cot. That probably didn't sound too good!
‐‐ Pixie Lott

When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large.
‐‐ Robert Hass

When I was younger, I was so damn pretty, I looked like a girl, so I understand why guys didn't like me.
‐‐ Paul Walker

When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles.
‐‐ Conor Oberst

When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.
‐‐ Angie Stone

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.
‐‐ Thierry Henry

When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things.
‐‐ Saoirse Ronan

When I was younger, I was very princessy. I always wanted to be blond-haired and blue-eyed. This was before Mulan, so I was very upset about all the Cinderellas. I always tried to imagine that maybe Snow White was Chinese since she had black hair.
‐‐ Grace Lin

When I was younger, I was very vocal to the point of being strident in my views.
‐‐ Gillian Jacobs

When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

When I was younger, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, but I told a lot of lies in school. I told my friends once that I was playing John Travolta's daughter in a movie. I also told people that I had this romantic affair with Jonathan Taylor Thomas over a summer.
‐‐ Meaghan Rath

When I was younger, I wasn't thinking about fit. Clothes are measured just for me now. I know that's not what the average person does, but I've gotten smart about what fits my body the right way and what makes me feel comfortable.
‐‐ Theophilus London

When I was younger, I went through a lot of different phases. One day I'd be punk rock, and the next I would be tomboyish, and then I would be really girly. I was so weird. My two best friends and I were just crazy and goofy!
‐‐ Ashley Benson

When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went to was primarily Caucasian, there wasn't anyone who had my hair texture. I remember one day I straightened my hair, and that was the first day that people gave me compliments on it.
‐‐ Zendaya

When I was younger, I won a radio at a church raffle.
‐‐ Gbenga Akinnagbe

When I was younger, I would eat everything.
‐‐ Summer Sanders

When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
‐‐ Al Pacino

When I was younger, I would see shea butter being sold on the street, and I was interested how people were still coating themselves in the theater of Africanism. You see that in dashikis and hairstyles and music.
‐‐ Rashid Johnson

When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.
‐‐ Britney Spears

When I was younger - it might be a romantic idea - I always thought I might go crazy.
‐‐ Diane Kruger

When I was younger, it was like, 'Yay, lesbians love me!' I didn't know there was a responsibility that came with it.
‐‐ Katee Sackhoff

When I was younger, it was really difficult for me to get acting jobs, because you're a kid and you don't fit in the typical family.
‐‐ Crystal Lowe

When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team.
‐‐ Brandi Chastain

When I was younger it was - you know, my dad dressed up in drag on 'Bosom Buddies.' And that was what I was having to deal with at the time. And then around the time that I was into college was when he became statue-worthy I guess you could say.
‐‐ Colin Hanks

When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.
‐‐ Michael Zaslow

When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to make these silly, stupid short films, which, looking back now, were probably horrible.
‐‐ Iain De Caestecker

When I was younger, music was always there.
‐‐ Kiiara

When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.
‐‐ Shawn Johnson

When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.'
‐‐ Vanessa Lengies

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
‐‐ Paris Hilton

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.
‐‐ Domhnall Gleeson

When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the most part I grew up in the South and D.C. I got the travel bug as a little person and I've bounced around a lot.
‐‐ Nicole Beharie

When I was younger, my feet would hurt a lot, but you build up calluses and strength, and you don't feel as much pain there. But then again, it's a give and take. The older you get, you may feel pain in your back or your hips.
‐‐ Misty Copeland

When I was younger, my goal in life was to work in special FX makeup. Liquid latex and fake blood! That was the dream!
‐‐ Cullen Bunn

When I was younger, my grandma taught me how to cut patterns and sew.
‐‐ Kylie Minogue

When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only way that I'd be able to express myself was to write her. We would write letters back and forth for days. When I'm writing, I feel uninterrupted. I write what I'm going through and how I see it.
‐‐ Alicia Keys

When I was younger, my mum used to dress me in, like, lime green leggings with a matching neon jumper and hair scrunch, so I'd say I've definitely progressed since then in terms of style.
‐‐ Sophie Turner

When I was younger, my mum used to put fresh flowers in bath water instead of rubber ducks, and since then I had a love of perfumes.
‐‐ Virginia Hey

When I was younger, my sister thought it was funny to pretend to punch me in the face because my mom was concerned about my teeth falling out. They were loose for a long time, and she knocked out my teeth.
‐‐ Amy Adams

When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.
‐‐ Kiefer Sutherland

When I was younger, on weekends, my mom would make us pancakes with our initials on them and then a tiny cup of coffee. I remember at 10 sneaking my own coffee and pouring a ton of sugar in and going up to the playroom and drinking it.
‐‐ Mary-Kate Olsen

When I was younger, people kept making offers for different reality shows and stuff.
‐‐ Cassidy Gifford

When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid.
‐‐ Katie Cassidy

When I was younger, shopping helped me discover many new places and many new things.
‐‐ Miuccia Prada

When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.
‐‐ Alicia Keys

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.
‐‐ Paul Walker

When I was younger, the red carpet used to terrify me because it's not about playing a part: you're not in a film pretending to be someone - you are yourself. It's intimidating.
‐‐ Alexandra Maria Lara

When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.
‐‐ Namie Amuro

When I was younger, there was a sort of stigma attached to my stamina. My dad took me swimming one day and I just was no good at it, so my dad said, 'Your stamina's bad.'
‐‐ Charlie Bewley

When I was younger, things got to me more, but not now.
‐‐ Holly Valance