Youth Decision Quotes

When I was 16, my friends were in a drama group, and they asked me to join. I said no, I'm not interested, that it's not really for me.

I'd dropped out of college to start design thing.

Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

My parents every day said, 'Ah, it's better you go to school, it's very important for your future.' But inside myself, I said: 'I think the good way is follow the football.'

I was about 15 when I decided that acting was what I wanted to pursue professionally.

When I was 8 years old, my brother was making the noises of the animals I was eating, so I decided to go vegetarian. Then I would give up because I was 8.

I dropped out of college and started gigging around Brighton.

There was a point when I was very young where I remember talking with my mom about going to drama school and this was maybe when I was 8, 9, 10 years old - and she knew that I was also academically very capable, and she steered me in another direction.

I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.

I had my nose done when I was 16 years old, and I'll be honest: it did change my life.

Certainty regarding your career aged 15 is very unusual.

I dropped out of college when I was 18 to be in a band.

Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

I didn't want to go to college, and my parents said, 'Well, then you'd better get a job, because we're not paying for you to drop out of school.' So I delivered pizza near USC for a while. We had to wear khakis and a baseball hat with the logo on it, and I worked almost every day.

I left school and didn't go to university to be in a band.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

I talked to a few schools about playing football, but I had already pretty much made my mind up. I fell in love with baseball at a young age, and I knew that that's what I wanted to do.

There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.

I left home at 15 to go to the North Carolina School of the Arts.

I dropped out of school at 17 and joined the Irish band The Frames, getting my first glimpse into the world of professional film making while shooting of a number of rock videos.