When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in 1904, and the rise of the unions in America.
You know, it really doesn`t matter what (the media) write as long as you`ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.
When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!
I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.
I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.
I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in America, and Asian in America, and a young person in America.
When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.
Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.
When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it.
I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.
I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.
When you're a young kid and you're gay, you're out there on your own. And you're trying to figure this thing out. And your parents typically aren't gay.
You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.
Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.
My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.
