Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

Youth is a period of missed opportunities. ”

Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don't make the transition. ”

Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me to live through the open racism of the time. ”

No, I always hated modeling. I developed an early hatred of modeling just from having to do it; having won Miss Teenage Memphis, I had to model, and I hated it. It bored me. ”

When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria. ”

I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better here than anywhere else. It's better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it. ”

It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man. ”

When I was just coming up, I always wanted to be able to perform to a large crowd with a symphony. ”

Coming up in Chicago, we heard a lot of blues. ”

Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends. ”