Youthful Adventure Quotes

For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky - poor parents! - I would be home before it got dark.

I lived my twenties on the road, in all different countries experiencing this momentum of a career which was taking off in its own way.

When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.

I went to Florida when I was 15. That was my first time in America, so you learn about how different the regions are.

I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.

I lived in Cleveland for a summer when I was 12, and I was a ball boy for the Browns, which few people know.

I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager.

I'd only been to Studio 54 a couple of times, when I was 16.

I learnt to drive at around eleven years old. In an old jeep on a field in Colorado. There were lots of ditches. I could barely see over the steering wheel.

I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I was doing graffiti - writing my name everywhere, using the city as a canvas. I was going in the tunnels of Paris, on the rooftops with my friends. Each trip was an excursion, was an adventure.

'Dil Chahta Hai' is not the first film about friendship. 'Lakshya' is not the first film about war and coming of age.

I used to go to the stables and fool with the mules. My mother lived in constant fear that I might be brought home with a hoof print on my stomach.

When I was 12, my friend and I tried to sneak onto a plane from my hometown of Cleveland to New York City! My dad encouraged us - he was a wild guy, big on jokes.

I hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown a lot of times riding home from school.

Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths.

I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.

As soon as I was tall enough, my dad used to let me drive him 60 miles or 70 miles to work. That was pretty fun. My dad was really old. At the time, he was 82 years old. He said, 'Can you drive?' and I said 'Yes.' I guess I didn't find it to be that crazy.

When I was fifteen years old, my dad won a video camera in a corporate golf tournament. I snatched it from his closet and began filming skateboard videos with my friends.

I was put on a surfboard by a cute boyfriend in high school.

When I was 16, I played Tallulah in 'Bugsy Malone' at the Queen's Theatre. Me and five others shared a flat together in Blackheath. It was brilliant being 16 and living in London with my mates.

I went to Africa the first time when I was 14 and first starting out in modeling. I went for a campaign and I just fell in love.

And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

I went to Alaska as a young man just looking for adventure. And like so many of us in the '70s, we found it.