One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days.
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.
A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.
There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.
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.
Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.
There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.
We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.
A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.
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.