Alexandra Daddario Quotes

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

At 20, you're cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.

I naively thought I had to go door to door, find somebody who could record me singing some songs. I didn't know Music Row, I didn't know anything! So after six or seven months, I went back home and went to college.

When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.

When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my resume with everything I had ever done - ice-skate, carry a tune. I can't dance for my life, but I can learn, so I'll tell people I can dance. I play the piano - I'm a really good pianist, actually.

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.

At 17, we all think we know what we're doing.

I was cocky and arrogant when I was younger. I thought that if I delivered a good performance, and put my best foot forward, that would be enough to get people's attention. So in my naivety, I cut my legs off at the knees, because I didn't realize that oftentimes it doesn't matter about the performance... it's the media that creates stars.

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 you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.

And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.

You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?

When I entered the pros, I was a young kid in the major leagues. I was 18 years old, right out of high school. I thought I knew everything, and I clearly didn't.

When you're young, when you've never done anything very much on your own, you imagine that it won't be so hard.

When I made my first film, I was arrogant and over-confident.

When I went to Burnley I'd only been a pro for 14 months. I wasn't even entirely sure where it was! I always lived at home with my mum and dad and it's a long way from Bournemouth.

I was 25 myself once. I also thought I knew everything. I also thought that I could give singers singing advice and comics comedy advice. When you're that age, you know it all, so I understand it. But when you're tired and you don't have patience for it, you definitely snap.

I got an opportunity to do varied roles so early in my career.

I was very immature when I married.

At the beginning of my career before anything started propelling, I used to blow up everybody. I was trying to work with whoever got next.

I was so young in 'Bring It On!' I didn't know what I didn't know.

Sometimes when you're young and a little more immature, you can overdo things or not really have your legs under you.

I used to work at Sirius. And when I got my job at Sirius, I was only 21. It was my first job out of college. And when I think back to what 21 was, though, you're an idiot.

When you're young, you're cocky.