My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.
I made my debut very early and a lot of things happened to me at a young age, but I was there for the best time in Barcelona’s history and played with the best players in the world.
Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
Growing up on stage, I was introduced to makeup at a young age and I will never forget the first time I tried on a L’Oreal Paris iconic lipstick – it was instant glamour and I’ve been hooked ever since.
I don’t think that being an actor or being a performer at a young age leads to failures as an adult. There’s a lot more success stories than I think people recognize.
My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.
I’ve read stories from people who say they always knew they were attracted to the same sex, or that they figured it out at a young age. I’m not one of them. I had practically no idea until one night in my sophomore year of high school.
From a young age, I saw and placed importance on spirituality within religion.
At a young age, I was very aware I was different and not perceived in a good way. For a lot of my adolescence, I struggled with that, trying to identify where I belong and who my real friends are.
I use a lot of sunblock, which is something I learned from my mother at a young age – to stay out of the sun and be careful of skin cancer. We live in a time where global warming is at its maximum level. The ozone is destroyed, and our skin is exposed to sunbeams on a daily basis.
At a very young age, I fell in love with the idea of being in a restaurant and being surrounded with people around me. I don’t think at the time I thought about becoming a chef. I have a bachelor’s degree in economics. I never went to a cooking school.
Daniel Boulud told me at a young age, ‘Whatever happens to you in your career, you’re going to be great – be humble. Just be humble.’ And I think about that daily. Like, whatever happens to me, whatever awards we win as a team or whatever else, just be humble.
I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That’s a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.
From a very young age I was someone who stood up for others and myself.
I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn’t be where I am if I hadn’t.
I remember specifically a couple of performances that I saw when I was young – River Phoenix in ‘Stand by Me’ and also Michael Jackson, in particular his ability to command such power and love while maintaining such deep vulnerability. It really moved my soul from a very young age.
You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there’s very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they’re the same 30 years later.
You look more like a legend when you accomplish a lot at a young age.
I’ve never been a frustrated person because I learnt at a very young age that the frustration I had inside of me had to do with creativity and the ability to transform that into action. I realized very early my restlessness had to be channelled into things I could do.
I was an arts kid in every form of the word you can imagine. I wanted to sing and dance and act – I wanted to do it all. At a very young age, I was put in performing arts schools where I got to do those things every single day.
The most important thing in convoluted families, I learnt as I wrote, is that the child feels loved. I knew from a young age that I was a problem which required constant solving; but I never felt unloved. I was lucky.
I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.
Formula One was just cool. I loved racing, all types of racing, but from a young age, Formula One was the noise and everything, and that’s what I was drawn to. I already knew when I was younger, the coolest guys are in F1… not that NASCAR drivers aren’t cool, but that was always what I had in my head!
I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what ‘pull my finger’ meant the hard way.
From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal.
You are neither better nor worse than anyone else. I learned at a young age how to maintain this balance.
Arsenal have always been one of the best clubs in the world, so to even be a part of the club from a young age I’ve always had to give my best.
I wish I’d lived in New York in my early twenties. Or learned to speak more languages at a young age. I didn’t do either.
You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don’t, and it’s a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome.
I was actually signed at a very young age – I was 12 – and one thing led to another, and I ended up in a mutual split from the label. But it was probably the best thing that could have ever happened, because I was able to kind of leave the industry side of it for a minute and focus on the independent side.
I knew from a young age what I wanted to do, but that’s not the case for everyone. Some go through different paths to reach their destination.
People think that I have figured it all out, at a young age, about love.
By the time I graduated, I’d lost both parents and 23 was a young age to deal with a double loss like that. I felt rootless.
At a young age winning is not the most important thing… the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
‘Driving while black’ was taught to me at a young age.
At the end of the day, we’re goalkeepers, and we live with making mistakes. We learn from a young age that you can make a mistake at any point.
I went from someone who really wanted to perform from a really young age – that was all I knew – to going on ‘X-Factor’, which I thought was going to be the most incredible experience ever and it becoming the worst experience of my life.
I graduated high school, and I always wanted to go to college, but I also really wanted to work at a young age. At 18, I was pitching talk show ideas to different networks. I was a journalist.
From a fairly young age, Donald had a really hard time reading social cues. You know, the rules in the house, my grandparents’ house were very different from the rules in school. So, he had a difficult time adjusting to that.
Doing modeling was a fun thing for me. At a young age, being able to earn was exciting. I got to work with some very talented designers and models. But there was always a yearning in me to do something more.
My dad grew up in western Nebraska. I’d visit all the time as a kid, and it’s very much like the Wild West. It felt to me like a cowboy movie. Stuff like that made me become this dreamer at a young age.
Food has always been a passion for me from a very young age.
My passion for service came from my parents, and my community involvement began at a very young age, when I volunteered with the local Chamber of Commerce in Lowell, MA to help revitalize our city.
I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had left school at a very young age, unwillingly in my father’s case. Yet both had deep effects on my education, my father influencing me toward measurement and mathematics, and my mother toward writing and history.
I’ve loved poetry since a very young age and my parents, especially my dad, he really introduced us to art when we were quite young.
Any time that you get big titles or head jobs at a young age, there’s going to be that factor. ‘He didn’t pay his dues.’
A lot of times people are caught between doing the things they have to do versus following their passion and I’m someone who, at a very young age chose to be of service.
I recognized from a young age that I wasn’t a football player; I played football.
I think it’s really important to be able to talk when something’s wrong. I learned at a really young age that if you don’t talk about it, it can drive you insane.
One of the things that I learned at a very young age is the power of a parent’s words to their children.
To see myself with the Champions League trophy at such a young age was an incredible and tremendous feeling.
People don’t understand this, but I started very young, and I became very, very successful at a very young age. By the time I was 26 years old, I was a multimillionaire. And I started with nothing. And I was on the road 10, 11 months a year.
I feel that confidence in women – especially young girls of color – but women, in general, is so important. It is so important for us to arm ourselves and become powerful at a very young age.
I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I’ve just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don’t know what put that bug in me at a young age.
In today’s day and age, where so many kids are taught to specialize so early, I want to show them you don’t have to – at a young age, high school age, college age and hopefully a professional age.
