Youth Interests Quotes

I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.

I've always been interested in visual art and used to be much more into theater when I was younger, or more knowledgeable about what's going on. And literature has played a big part in my life.

I was not a big comic-book reader.

There's something suspicious about saying, 'I'm just going to leave my child alone and let her pursue her passions.' You know what? I think most 13-year-olds' passion is sitting in front of the TV, or doing Facebook, or surfing the Internet for hours.

I don't think the demographic for skating really entails a lot of basketball watching.

In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.

I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.

I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see the Bugs Bunny cartoons.

I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.

Marine biology was something I was into during high school and the beginning of college.

When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.

I wanted to be a baseball player, but I became fascinated with wrestling as a teenager.

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.

Most kids are very seriously interested in something - friends, math, shopping, sports. For me it happened to be music and the violin. I had the chance to pursue it without having it get in the way of my life.

I boxed until I got interested in other things. My first car. Girls.

When I was a kid I wanted to be a musician. I used to play the trumpet. I practiced all the time, but I got braces and I couldn't play it anymore, so I had all of this free time.

Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.

I've got to say, my parents have always been very supportive. I used to sit in my bedroom and read every liner note and listened to records. My parents are rock fans.

I'd been interested in animal behaviour as a teenager and had thought of studying it at one point.

Comic books are a big thing. I looked at them when I was a kid. I'm not a kid anymore, so I kind of grew out of that phase.

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

I am worried that young Japanese people are not very curious about the outside world - which is so different to the way we were in the Sixties and Seventies. All they want to listen to is Japanese pop. They haven't even heard of Radiohead!

Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.

I didn't want to do anything but ride horses until I was, like, 15.

I would say I was into two sports as a kid: basketball and baseball.