J R Young Quotes

So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie

Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.

What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously. "I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he explained.

Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?

My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.

And we will cause it to be well-made, this Sacrifice. You, young and never loving; I, old and never loved. Such a Song the Sea will never have seen.

...is this not in fact the purpose of young Americans going abroad? To make them think of things they never thought of?

I consider myself a 'local' actor in France. I started out in France, I went to drama school in France and the French film community was very welcoming to me when I was a young actress.

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

I obviously don't feel under pressure to look young, because I have had no Botox or surgery. I don't judge people who choose to have it, but I don't want to erase who I am.

New York seemed as young as I was and infinitely hospitable.

Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated.

If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely - on a talented young comedy writer.

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Young people ask me for advice, and I tell them to do what I didn't do. Get some training. I took jobs that required talents I didn't have.

You try to be young, maybe you like to have a few toys, but it's not the most important thing in life.

When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.

There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.

we are so scornful when we are young!

I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young.

I really love Juicy Couture - it's young and fresh.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

You never want to look like an old fart doing young rap music.

I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.

How can a young man like to wear a beard?

Oh, wise young judge.

People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

I love the energy of children. It makes me feel young. I'm just drawn to them. They're like magic to me. And they're drawn to me, the childlike part of me that never did grow up.

I remember, as a young man, wanting to experience a car going at those speeds and being visually nourished by something which I loved so much. And I wanted to race fast cars and have a good time.

One of my earliest memories as a reader - I don't know how old I was, quite young - was a poem of his, called "Fog," and I remember the first verse, "The fog comes / on little cat feet".

It's naturally kind of humiliating and strange to have a microphone; when you're young you just make movies, you don't worry about all the peripheral stuff that comes with it.

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."

With migration [in Europe] you look at the lines and you look at the tremendous amount of young strong men in these lines and you wonder what is going on?

New York is eating young geniuses [businessmen] up alive. It's eating them up alive, Stone. And it's showing the beauty of the city, but it's showing the toughness and the viciousness of the city.

[Marco] Rubio, I've never seen a young guy sweat that much. I've never seen - he's drinking water, water, water, I never saw anything like this with him and the water.

Many young, beautiful, innocent people, living and enjoying their lives, murdered by evil losers in life. I won't call them monsters, because they would like that term.

There's no word for what Young does, only for what he accomplishes-the capturing of small, daily miracles.

After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before.

The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.

Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.

I was immediately into all the great movie comedians - Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder. Everything those guys had anything to do with, from I don't know how young. Super young.

I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!

Being blinded by young love. I remember the feeling, when I first fell in love - you don't see the world the same way that other people see it. You don't see the same boundaries.

I dreamt of being an actor ever since I was young.