- Every American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Age Quotes
On the ages we pass through.
This collection moves from a childhood memory shaped by early pressure over appearance to a university course named for an 18th-century literary period, showing how differently 'age' can be used. For life-stage reflections, browse Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Dive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I finally became a scuba diver at age 15 or so, and a couple of years after that, I attended a dive show that is held every year in Boston. It's the oldest one in the world and it's still going on - it's called the Sea Rovers.
- Embraces
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about being onstage, man. No matter what age I am or where I'm going, theater will constantly be the thing that accepts me and embraces me.
- Coming
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
- Big Ones
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never counted how many tattoos I have, but I started getting them at a really young age, so most of my big ones are cover-ups.
- Have Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
A winning model would mean trying to get the best possible players that you can, at whatever age they are; it doesn't matter.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's so much music from Led Zeppelin that I think I overlooked when I was a kid because I didn't understand it, so now to revisit it at an older age, I have a deeper appreciation for it.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very vocal about what I wanted to do at a very young age. I wanted to be inside of the television set. I didn't know being on TV was being an actor.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would have loved to have been a footballer like my great uncle Matt Busby, but I knew quite early on that I wasn't going to make the grade. Luckily I was told by the age of 13 that I wasn't good enough. That's not a bad thing. You see this 'X Factor' generation of kids now who don't accept that they're not good enough.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've invented several games for use as teaching tools in my classroom: one of them, a game called 'Iron Age: Council of the Clans,' got so popular among my students that they encouraged me to publish it, which I did.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020