When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.
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Related When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very im... SINEAD O'CONNOR When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems na... GARRY TRUDEAU When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out... NEIL YOUNG When you're on a submarine you're usually underwater for months at a time, and you don't... JESSY SCHRAM I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you ... MAGGIE CAREY When you're acting, you're a person. When you're modeling, you're a hanger. ANALEIGH TIPTON When you're younger, you kind of assume you'll be fine at whatever. Then you get older, and ... ETHAN COEN When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going ... SYLVESTER STALLONE But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - o... DAMIEN HIRST When you're an actor in grade school, high school, college, whatever, you start to realize what ... BRYAN CRANSTON When you're young, you don't care about your parents and what they're doing. But then yo... CAMPBELL SCOTT When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless ag... CLINT EASTWOOD When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go. RACHEL DRATCH A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think ... OCTAVIA BUTLER When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important tha... JOAN ARMATRADING When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into th... GREG RUSEDSKI When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's ... ZELJKO IVANEK When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you kn... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN When you're a dweeb, when you're really young, it stands out. But as everybody gets older an... CATHERINE JINKS When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor. ADAM RAPP You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're ... LORETTA LYNN I think when you're young, you're a lot more open-minded, and sometimes you're a lot mor... ZENDAYA I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce ... ALAN ALDA When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it. DAVE GROHL At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a moth... INDRA NOOYI When you're young, you're fearless and more creative, more of an outsider. HELMUT LANG When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don'... FREDDIE HIGHMORE When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you ... ED WEEKS I don't even really know what it is I do for a living - the level of insecurity is very, very hi... SHIA LABEOUF When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight... LAURENCE OLIVIER You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing ... PETE FOUNTAIN I don't know how to explain it, but when you're working on something constantly, and you'... ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know... DAN ROSENSWEIG When you're in your 20s, you're a little more carefree; you're single. You have a very d... MELISSA DE SOUSA My favorite part of a roller-coaster ride is when you're going up and you're slightly scared... GINA GERSHON After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you&... AUDREY TAUTOU Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half t... VANESSA HUDGENS With tennis, if you're very good at a young age, you don't even go to your prom. You're ... DOUGLAS BRUNT In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it ha... ALEC BALDWIN You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what th... LEONARD NIMOY Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about. JOHN VON NEUMANN When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you ... BARBARA WALTERS When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you'... TAYLOR KITSCH When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that... VERONICA ROTH Either you're this, or you're that: either you're - if you're a Pakistani, you'r... MIRA NAIR When you're young, you're stupid. WENDY HILLER When you're drunk, you always think you're not. If you even drink at all don't get behin... BAM MARGERA It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt in... CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG I think there is sexy. And then there's tacky sexy. When you're young, you can get away with... ANDIE MACDOWELL I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't... CARL REINER I really don't know what it's like in 'Twilight,' but I know in the young-adult genr... ALDEN EHRENREICH If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don&... JOHN KRICFALUSI Hearing 'no' a lot of times usually tells you either you're crazy or you're on the r... MIKE KRIEGER When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important. BILL SHOEMAKER I don't really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don't. I really don... TOM BRADY When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking... PATRICK O'BRIAN I've had to really teach myself that when you're not feeling it, you shouldn't write any... COREY TAYLOR When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts. ORLANDO BLOOM People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when ... 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MAISIE WILLIAMS When you're young you don't know anything, but you have lot of energy to express yourself. S... GILBERT HERNANDEZ When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable. HELEN MIRREN The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all,... RIDLEY SCOTT I've learnt that you tend most to make a div of yourself when you're trying to cover up the ... CAITLIN MORAN Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when y... DEEPAK CHOPRA When you're a kid, you're not as corrupted by the world at large. You're not corrupted b... JEFF LEMIRE When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, th... BLAKE MYCOSKIE If you're a musician, you're a musician; you don't ever get that out of your bones. ALEX CLARE In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you're gonna impre... JASON BATEMAN I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going ... ANTONY BEEVOR I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting t... SCOTT AUKERMAN You're supposed to look a certain way when you're a celebrity, but I want to take care of my... JENNIFER GARNER When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good... MARILYN MANSON If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspect... STEVE CASE When you're a big sister, it's a great job. I don't know how little sisters feel about t... VENUS WILLIAMS If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. If you're discipline... TOM LANDRY When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things. OZZY OSBOURNE You're the luckiest person in the entire world if you know what you really want to do, which I w... ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why... FRED DURST If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong... PARKER STEVENSON Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, peopl... ISIAH WHITLOCK, JR. The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you&... CHERIE LUNGHI When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them, but at least you're very s... CAROLE BOUQUET One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to th... ED BELFOUR When you're on the victory podium, you're a queen, but when you come down from it, you'r... YANA KUDRYAVTSEVA The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You'... 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