Stephen Jackson Quotes

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

I was still going out when I was younger - drinking - and I wasn't looking after myself properly.

When you're a teenager, you think you're invincible. You don't listen to anyone.

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem.

I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

In high school, I threw a party to get a guy's attention. I wanted him to think I was cool, so I let him and his friends DJ and basically take over the house.

As a teenager, I wanted to be sophisticated and avant-garde, and I was really judgmental. But when you're a teenager, you're fearless because you don't know the repercussions to anything.

From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.

Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

Beauty pageants, you're only judged once. Sorority rush, you have to go through 20 parties.

I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane!

What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time.

I find it an exhausting experience, personally, to go to a party every night.

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

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.

At the senior prom for my Catholic boarding school, I was feeling manly, so I shaved, even though I didn't need to. Being inexperienced, I managed to slice a quarter-inch gash into my lower chin a half hour before I picked up my date.

I was a wild kid in high school. I liked to get crazy and be rebellious and go to parties and do all that kind of stuff.

I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

When I was 15, if Stephen Fry had advised me to trim my eyebrows with a Flymo, I would have given it serious consideration.

The young may be pure in heart, but they are also high on emotion and short on life experience. Simply put, they are natural philistines.

When people are like, 'College! Oh my God! Ultimate freedom!' I didn't feel that way. My roommates were loving hitting the town, but I wasn't as psyched about going to the frats.

I drank too much, only champagne.