- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boy Quotes
From playground dreams to fatherly reflection.
This collection gathers quotes touching on boyhood in its many forms, from primary-school friendships and boy scout days to a boy's private ambition to become something larger than himself. See also our Boyhood quotes for more on early years.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to see my dad and his brothers rhyming, and I knew I wanted to do that one day. I'm like any other boy, always wanting to follow in his father's footsteps.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 16, I was like any other boy at that age who dreams of having a good physique.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.
- Art Student
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an art student when I was a boy, and as an art student you don't have to talk to anyone - you just have to paint really wonderful paintings. It's very unlike being an actor, where you have to talk all the time.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm enough of a southeast Texas boy - there's enough white trash in my blood that when somebody gives me money to make a record, I feel like I have to please them instead of myself.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.
- Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wrestling has a tremendous entrance plan. You come in, and it's, 'Boy, here you are. It's rock and roll; it's wonderful.' It's got no exit plan.
- Partner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy as a tag-team partner.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever you make a movie, when it's done, as a filmmaker, you never sit there and say, 'Boy, I really got that right.' It's, 'Where did I screw up?'
- Golf Balls
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a young boy. A stock car guy used to live across the street from us. He'd work on his car, and both of my older brothers became gearheads.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a little boy, I didn't know what the Hall of Fame was. I was just playing the game of baseball, and I wanted to be just like my dad.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020