Rick Famuyiwa Quotes

I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.

I went to school every day, like everyone else, and I played baseball for my high school team. I was a part of a lot of different activities outside of school.

I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.

I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike.

I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.

Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again.

During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.

Normal kids in their teens want to go and date girls and do mischievous things, your hormones are jumping around, but I stayed in my bedroom in search of something.

I don't like Las Vegas. I'd rather be mountain biking or climbing.

My parents have always been open to me trying new things, whether it's yoga or ballet or tap or jazz or piano or horse riding.

At the age of 14, I ran away from home for four days and hitchhiked around western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio.

I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.

I was a hard rocker when I was in high school.

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

Acting was something I did growing up. I never it took it too seriously; it was just one of those things I got into high school and was like, 'Nah, I don't want to continue acting.' Cause I got into it professionally by local theater, and from there, I just decided to do sports and be more a high school kid and have my fun.

I started surfing when I was working on 'The Hunger Games,' out on the north shore of Oahu, so about four years ago. I used to skateboard as a kid, kind of religiously, until I broke my leg riding in a pool when I was about 14 and I couldn't play football that fall.

I think I can safely say that, as adolescents, most people have excess energy to spare and need adventure, excitement, and a challenge.

As a young man, I experimented with everything.

If being a skateboarder were a personality type and not actually an athletic activity, then I'd say I'm a skateboarder. But I don't ride one. I'm a bicycle person.

I played sports. I had boyfriends. I loved high school.

I have hobbies. I like being active. I like to surf a lot, play a little bit of golf.