When I was young, my mother would not let me get my ears pierced because I used to get into too many fights.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.

When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.

I have a young heart.

I can't get married for the heck of it only because 'I'm not getting any younger.'

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!

I've always tried very hard to gain weight since I was very young.

I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose now-famous collection of 'Kinder- und Hausmarchen' ('Children's and Household Tales') was first published in 1812. The book was not intended for young readers.

For directors and producers, you're not going to get competent performers on your set if they didn't start at a young age and understand professionalism.

I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.

When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're climbing into the meat grinder. And what you're coming out with on the other side is a generic, heavily studio-controlled pile of garbage that ends up on the side of Burger King wrappers.

I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their lives, often problems that are bigger than they're actually capable of solving.

I think whenever anyone asked me why I wanted to be a hockey player, that's where it all started, watching the Winnipeg Jets play as a young kid.

Even when I was young, I never felt extreme feelings.

In 1970, the average woman had her first child at 21.4; by 2012, it was almost 26, an age by which many young adults are at least a few years deep into jobs or careers.