You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to.
I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.
I don't think that youth should be glorified.
Just because people are older, they don't have the right to tell you what's right and wrong.
Every manager has a certain influence, and it depends whether you're 18, 25, or 30. You need different things.
When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder.
I honestly don't think you're taken seriously until you're 30. Any ideas I've ever taken to the BBC, they've told me I wasn't ready for it.
I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.
People who don't know how old I am can cast me as the woman in 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' and can cast me as Stella in 'Streetcar Named Desire,' and they are miles apart.
A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.
If you are heading for 60, people will flirt with you; if you are heading for 70, they won't.
It doesn't matter, if you're on the pitch, how old you are. You have to keep going - you have to perform - and if you're 18 or 36, you have to play your games.
By the time my brother was 8, he was cooking breakfast and dinner for us. And I was 5.
I had that extroverted energy, and I always involved myself in quite adult conversations. My mum never hid us from that. There was never a kids' table; we were never treated as kids, per se, because I don't think she believes in that.
