Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

Some nights I lie awake at night thinking, 'What's going to stop someone from smashing a chair through my window and coming in the house at two in the morning?' It is very unnerving. It's a realistic scare, which is the worst kind of scare that you could have. ”

I was the best street fighter in history when I was growing up on the Lower East Side. Hell, I never lost a street fight. Never. I thought I could lick Jack Dempsey or Joe Louis or anybody. I was fantastic. ”

When I was a kid growing up, there might be 10 shows on the air that had been on for ten seasons or eleven seasons. 'Gunsmoke' ran for over twenty years. ”

If you think of all the enduring stories in the world, they're of journeys. Whether it's 'Don Quixote' or 'Ulysses,' there's always this sense of a quest - of a person going away to be tested, and coming back. ”

In Brazil, I didn't have it easy growing up. ”

I used the bus when I was growing up in Brazil. I don't want to diminish anyone who travels on the bus, but I haven't done that for a long time. ”

I came to Manchester City because I see them growing and getting bigger. Can they be as big as Real Madrid? Yes, I hope so. ”

I've completely embraced life in Florida after growing up in the Midwest. This is home for me. ”

I remember Robert Plant coming backstage after the first show saying, 'Hey, boys, I should be opening for you.' That felt pretty good. ”

I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one. ”