You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.
When I was a kid. I had traveled the world by the time I was 13 years old because of all the competitions I did for inline skating.
Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.
I accomplished so many things, so early in my career.
When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.
I have the most loyal fans that have been with me since I was 19 years old, when I was just a young guy becoming a world champion.
I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.
A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood.
Everything in my life has happened very early, personally and professionally.
There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.
I did important films when I was very young.
Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.
I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.
I did some good things as a rookie.
I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.
Space is not a two-year objective. It used to be, in the early '60's, we had this eye candy of Mercury and Gemini and Apollo and every year we would do something more and more and it met those needs. But the easy stuff has been done.
I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.
