When I was younger, I really loved playing rugby.
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.
I grew up in the age of radio. That was my main boyhood form of entertainment: lying on the living room floor with my ears affixed to the radio. I loved shows like ‘The Phantom,’ ‘Cisco Kid,’ and even ‘Happy Theater’ when I was younger.
Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it’s really like magic because you transform reality for people.
Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.
I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I’m still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
I used to play role-playing games a lot when I was younger, but once you start an RPG, it takes a lot of time. So I like things like action games you can just pick up and play.
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.
You’ve got to be a role model to the younger generation who look up to you, but it’s always good to have fun. That’s what the goal celebrations are about, really.
The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it.
I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I’ve developed mechanisms to deal with it.
When I was younger, let’s face it, Latinos in the league were almost always kickers. But Anthony Munoz was definitely a guy I looked up to.
As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: ‘This is me playing this character. And aren’t I fantastic!’ I don’t feel that so much now.
Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community – especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.
If I could talk to my younger self, I would tell her that you will grow into the woman you’ve always wanted to be. You will find love. You will be successful. You will be happy.
For some reason I can’t explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you’re doing and keep your imagination open. That’s a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age.
The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.
I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
I’m younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I’m still getting up there in age.
My dad died, I think, at 87. So I’ll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I’m not trying to lose weight.
I try not to be too invasive into my personal life. When I was younger, I used to tweet a lot, everything I was doing and feeling. I can’t do that anymore, because it’s just giving people too much room to judge.
I would definitely tell my younger self not to be in a rush, on anyone else’s timeline, and make sure that, along the way, that you take care of you first so that you can reach your destination.
Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in ‘Twilight’ and keeping your cool. The ‘Harry Potter’ men and women had, what, a 10-year run?
It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, ‘Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?’ It keeps you reaching.
Song Joong-ki is known for his sincerity and manners. He is younger than me, but I thought I learned many things from him.
Maybe I’m a damaged man. I think we’re all damaged in some ways. When I was younger I never thought I had any way of breaking through the hardships.
Just the fact that I’ve lived more, and I’m not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it’s not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself.
The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.
When I was younger, I liked guys who had a good personality and decent looks.
When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.
I started promoting clubs when I was 15. 1 was doing what is considered the normal collegiate stuff when I was a lot younger. I was holding my own, but doing a lot of crazy things.
My kids mean more to me than anything I thought was important when I was younger.
Once social media was introduced, it enabled a new way for people, particularly the younger generation, to connect with one another, based on common interests, goals and even values.
I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.
Nothing in the reporting of a nation’s history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course.
Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering ‘I want to be white,’ hidden in the aspirations of his people, to ‘Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!’
You reach a certain age, and you realize, ‘Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don’t leave me out – I don’t want to be left behind. I want to do it, too. Where are you going? I want to be part of it.’
I’m not drunk onstage, although I’ve done that a couple of times when I was younger. It’s partly just the way I talk – I talk like somebody in a rocking chair. I’m your 150-year-old grandmother.
When I was younger and really interested in acting, I would look at all the women on TV, and even the ones who were supposed to be ‘geeks’ or ‘less attractive,’ they all looked similar because they were extremely attractive and their bodies were all a certain way.
I think ‘No’ is a very powerful word in our business that is very hard to use early on in your career. But I also think I was pretty arrogant when I was younger… I used that word maybe too much, but it did help me with finding roles that I did like.
I couldn’t get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too… genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.
When I was younger, I was very wild, and I didn’t really have my head screwed on properly.
It takes time, but I have a promising team of younger Ministers, and I am quite sure from amongst them, one leader will emerge.
I’ve always played characters that were younger than myself.
My very first show that I ever did was a show called ‘Then Came You’. It became a huge hit – no, it didn’t. But it was a sitcom with some great people involved, and the story was about an older woman and a younger guy. I was the older woman’s best friend. I was 27 years old.
I think you’re a little more fragile when you’re younger.
In Holland we have always viewed Villa as an important club with a tradition of being powerful in Europe when I was younger, so I would be very interested in managing them if the job was offered to me.
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.
That’s the thing, when you play younger characters they’re always less casual. You’re hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.
People feel I look younger than my age. I don’t feel that way.
Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they’re 15 they can play 11 or when they’re 18 they can play 14. They look young for so long, they have abilities a much younger kid wouldn’t have.
They had asked for me because they wanted a younger girl, but Mum asked if she could bring Kylie along because she didn’t want there to be any jealously.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.
For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.
When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who’d get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.
