All Quotes

When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.
‐‐ Tom Waits

When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you'll never get anything done. There's enough inner strife.
‐‐ Melissa Rosenberg

When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.
‐‐ Felix Dennis

When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching - it's pretty cool. It's a really a nice contrast to writing.
‐‐ Michael Azerrad

When you're writing, you think: How does intimacy happen in the work? You don't know who your reader is, woman, man, child, black person, Asian, who knows?
‐‐ Claudia Rankine

When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them, but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain, more and more loss and it makes you more fragile.
‐‐ Carole Bouquet

When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.
‐‐ Helen Mirren

When you're young and dating someone, just play it safe and don't try so hard.
‐‐ Matt Prokop

When you're young and desperate to hold on to a place in the team you do whatever is asked of you.
‐‐ Peter Storey

When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.
‐‐ Lauryn Hill

When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder.
‐‐ Julie Newmar

When you're young and have the opportunity, it's crucial to learn as much as possible about your profession from every possible angle.
‐‐ Narciso Rodriguez

When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
‐‐ Dan Savage

When you're young and starting out, the big hurdle is to relax enough in rehearsal so that you don't feel intimidated. The more work you've done, the more you can experiment in rehearsal and not have to worry about getting the sack.
‐‐ Hattie Morahan

When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.
‐‐ Corey Haim

When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.
‐‐ Louis C. K.

When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.
‐‐ Manny Montana

When you're young, it's hard not to get together with your costar.
‐‐ Amanda Seyfried

When you're young, it's so easy to get bull-dozed.
‐‐ Christina Aguilera

When you're young, no one cares who your parents are, although Mum would arrive to pick me up in her full hair and make-up and fur, and I used to say, 'Can't you just dress normally, like all the other mums?' I wanted her to blend in more, but I've always been really proud of Mum - as proud as she is of me.
‐‐ Georgia May Jagger

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.
‐‐ Janis Ian

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.
‐‐ Pearl Bailey

When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.
‐‐ Anthony J. D'Angelo

When you're young, when you've never done anything very much on your own, you imagine that it won't be so hard.
‐‐ Alice Paul

When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.
‐‐ Garry Trudeau

When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink.
‐‐ Mickey Rourke

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.
‐‐ George Clooney

When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against the other top athletes, and sometimes things don't work.
‐‐ Lindsey Vonn

When you're young, you don't care about your parents and what they're doing. But then you get to your 20s, and you start watching their movies. And then you become an actor, as I did late in college, and then you're really watching them. And they were really very good.
‐‐ Campbell Scott

When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of things in terms of age because you're not conscious of it.
‐‐ Richard Hell

When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
‐‐ Garry Trudeau

When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.
‐‐ Neil Young

When you're young you don't know anything, but you have lot of energy to express yourself. So you make a lot of mistakes and you stumble, but you also get a lot of truth from within.
‐‐ Gilbert Hernandez

When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into that magical thing.
‐‐ Greg Rusedski

When you're young, you don't realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.
‐‐ Bobby Orr

When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.
‐‐ Sinead O'Connor

When you're young, you don't think about your career or your future - you perform because you love it.
‐‐ Kelsey Chow

When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
‐‐ Fefe Dobson

When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.
‐‐ Katarina Witt

When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!
‐‐ Devon Werkheiser

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.
‐‐ Deborah Kerr

When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.
‐‐ Paul Auster

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
‐‐ Steve Jobs

When you're young, you need to be silly and be stupid and not be trying to do that when you're 40 in a red sports car.
‐‐ Gin Wigmore

When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
‐‐ Val Kilmer

When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

When you're young, you're fearless and more creative, more of an outsider.
‐‐ Helmut Lang

When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.
‐‐ Dave Grohl

When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
‐‐ Ozzy Osbourne

When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood