Ninja Quotes

I don't care about the drinking, I just want to be able to go hang out and not have to worry about being too young.

I don't want to get in a big, long discussion about right and wrong, but our company has been working on the issue of underage drinking and alcohol abuse for a long time. I've been outspoken about it.

I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.

I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!

Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span.

ABC Family is really restructuring their network because there's a new kind of family, so I think they're really trying to step away from that younger audience, and they're bringing a network that can bring more to an older demographic.

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.

Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

I feel limited in some ways because I have such young fans. But I'm okay with that; I do everything I want to do.

I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

An Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors in the City of Annapolis, or within five miles thereof, to minors and people of color.

Brand loyalty starts in the cradle and ends in the grave, as I wrote in my first book, 'Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers.'

Giving up your core business in search of a phantom audience is not wise.

We know that families and kids are going to be an important part of our audience, so we've always made sure that we've picked subject matter that was appropriate for kids. But I think if you try to target a movie to kids, you're going to fail.

I can't understand why TV tries to appeal to youth.

I'm not opposed to the consumption of alcohol. I'm opposed to my kids watching TV at seven o'clock and being told to bet and drink.

What I find is that when young people find a brand they relate to, that they feel speaks to them, they want it in every format they can get.

It's not the networks, it's the advertisers who want to appeal to the young males who go to the movies and buy all of this stuff.

Full House was a show that was done for ten-year-olds. The critics hated it. They said terrible, terrible things about it. But it should have been reviewed by ten-year-olds. That's who it was made for. They loved it. And if they loved it, great. Why the hell does a fifty-year-old guy working at a big newspaper have to tell me I'm a piece of crap?

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

Canada, the drinking age is 18, that's unnecessary. Nobody wants to get loaded around people who have hope and their whole lives still ahead of them.

There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and, of course, I would never put sex and extreme violence in a YA book. But writing for adults and children requires the same care and attention.

I've just recently started doing the promo bits for the new album, and the funny thing is that the people who come to talk to me about these things seem to be getting younger. It's like the people who like the music are all young kids and they're on top of you - they know all about what you're doing, and they're excited and animated about it. So it's a lot of fun.