Jay Ryan Quotes

I had a ton of energy, ran around like crazy - more than a handful for my dad. I was crazy. Dad barely handled it. I was never diagnosed ADHD or anything like that, but I'm pretty sure I had it when I was younger. It's the only thing that would explain me getting into trouble all the time.

I've been quite hyperactive since I was a child.

I'm hyperactive.

I expressed myself through hyperactivity and disruption. I wanted to play rather than study.

I am not much on down-time. I'm ADHD, and I gotta be moving.

I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.

I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.

I think I've got some actor's form of ADHD. I just can't do the same thing day in, day out.

That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.

I'm so ADD.

I was definitely a handful back then. I could not sit down long enough to study.

I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painting and I'm writing music. I have to rotate what I'm doing every 15 minutes.

I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.

When I was maybe like, under 10 years old, I was kind of like a maniac.

I have a problem sometimes with being too hyper.

I can never sit still for five minutes.

When I was 17, I was hyperactive and annoyed my teachers.

I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but it's entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if you're a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.

I was really hyperactive as a kid and no one knew how or where I got all this energy.

When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.

I can't sit still for 10 minutes.

Sometimes I get a little manic and you can't stop me. I'm all over the place. I have fun.

I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD because I was making sounds. I was far from being an ADD child. I was actually quite quiet and well-behaved. But I used to drum on things.