Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes

I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.

When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?

I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.

I never envy the guys who get attention for partying too much or behaving badly.

Nothing good happens after midnight.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.

Everything is so aggressively marketed at every age: if you're not in Baby Gap, you're not cool. That's how everybody's grown up, so they don't even know it could be another way.

I never got a chance to take advantage of 'Superbad' at school because I graduated before it came out, so I never got to use any of my fame to pick up girls and go to cool parties.

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.

Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of magazines, smoking cigars. Give me a break. I didn't want to be a part of that. I don't like 'popular.'

I won't allow magazines in the house. When I was younger, I wanted to have my hair cut like so-and-so in the class above me at school, not somebody in a magazine. You see young girls trying to dress like so-and-so because they've seen lots of pictures of them.

People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.

The measures have not yet been devised which can permanently protect men from their folly.

Cardinals are never off-base. They are often ill-advised.

We have found that equivocation by the parents has contributed to eventual drug experimentation

Maybe we’ve done the best thing but sometimes have done it in the worst way.