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“When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy.”

Reason Philosophy Character Wanted Actors Voice Acting Changed Not Sure Never Change Realised Playwright

Author:David Suchet

“When I was 18 I already had a business going.”

Author:Satoshi Tajiri

“When I was 18 I gifted my 11-year-old step cousin a copy of Rancid's "...And Out Come the Wolves." Because of this her side of the family blamed me for many things. Caught her smoking at 15? Rancid. Disappeared for a long weekend? The Girl's a Time Bomb. Posed nude for a magazine 3 days after turning 18? They just disowned me. I'm a bad influence it seems. I've been a bad influence for a long time.”

Music Punk Bad Influence

Author:Damon Thomas

Source: More Snakes Than People: A Rural Gloom Graphic Novel

“When I was 18 I read a book about Buddhism and, before I was halfway through it I said to my mother, "I'm a Buddhist!" She said, "That's great. Finish reading the book and then you can tell me all about it." From that moment on I knew I was a Buddhist.”

Said Book Moments Mother Reading Buddhism Buddhist That Moment Halfway

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“When I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn't imagine having to deal with some kind of fame.”

Kind Deals Imagine Emotional Fame Wrecks Emotional Wreck

Author:Chris Pine

“When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.”

Happens Willing Wave Naive Whatever Happens Absorbing Whatever Happens Happens

Author:Paul Wesley

“When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.”

Thinking Years Two Actors Responsibility Identity College Needed Essentials Two Years Divorced

Author:Claire Danes

“When I was 18 the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.”

Vision

Author:Mark E. Smith

“When I was 18 years old I knew pretty much what I wanted to do in life. When I was 18 I knew I wanted to be a pro bodybuilder.”

Years Wanted Bodybuilder

Author:Branch Warren

“When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.”

Years School Felt Company Tree

Author:Alicia Silverstone

“When I was 18 years old, about to develop my sportsman career, the asthma complaints became already some years before.”

Years Careers Complaints Sportsman Asthma

Author:Cathy Freeman

“When I was 18 years old, I came to Tokyo from my hometown, Ise, in the countryside. I'd always been really inspired by fashion and music, especially when punk came out in '76 or '77.”

Fashion Inspired Punk Countryside Hometown

Author:Hiroshi Fujiwara

“When I was 18 years old, I went on the road with my dad after I graduated from high school. And we were riding on the tour bus one day, kind of rolling through the South, and he mentioned a song. We started talking about songs, and he mentioned one, and I said I don't know that one. And he mentioned another. I said I don't know that one either, Dad, and he became very alarmed that I didn't know what he considered my own musical genealogy.”

Knows Years Kind Said School Song My Own Talking Dad One Day High School South Musical My Dad Bus Riding Rolling Genealogy

Author:Rosanne Cash

“When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.”

Years Firsts Hours Europe Innocent Temples Avoiding Forums Saturn Backpacking Nightfall Patrolling

Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

“When I was 18 years old, there was no internet and no gay teen nights. Instead, you went to the clubs and talked to grown men and did grown-up things.”

Men Night Internet Gay

Author:Mark Bradford

“When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.”

Actors New York College Screens Guilds

Author:Marla Maples

“When I was 18, I was playing to 18 to 21-year-olds, and then, when I was 25, still playing to 18 to 25-year-olds. As I've gone on, the crowd has gone in both directions, both younger and a little older now than it's ever been. It is an interesting thing to hit 30.”

Years Littles Stills Interesting Gone Crowds Interesting Things

Author:Girl Talk

“When I was 18, I went to a Baptist church with my girlfriend, and had a breakthrough when a pastor laid hands on me on an altar call. I wept that evening and realized how numb I had become with God and how He was calling to me for restoration. I received that blessing and went on to raising my three children in a Lutheran Church in the Bay Area as a member of Journey.”

Children Hands Three Church Journey Calling Blessing Members Areas Evening Girlfriend Pastor Breakthrough Altars Restoration Numb My Girlfriend Baptists Bay Area Lutherans

Author:Jonathan Cain

“When I was 18, I'd be out four nights a week - I want to have that energy again but I've found I'm a bit old and ready for retirement.”

Want Night Found Energy Bits Four Week Ready Retirement

Author:Katy B

“When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.”

Girl Bits Boys My Favorite Math Physics Chess Championship Nerd Science Physics

Author:Bjork

“When I was 18, there were 50 people that I called my friends. Today, there are only three, but I'm glad to have those three. If you have three people that you can really call your friends, then you truly have it made.”

People Ifs Made Today Three My Friends Glad

Author:John Rzeznik

“When I was 19 and I had lots of hope. Now, of course, I have none whatever. One wouldn't. One doesn't. I have a hope for a painless death. That's all that bothers me. Paul Bowles to Richard de Combray”

Death Dying

Author:Paul Bowles

“When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.”

Art Play School Song Teaching Months Six Singing Folks Six Months Belts Art School Novices Ukulele Folk Songs Baritones

Author:Joni Mitchell

“When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.”

Years Two Might Three Next Parent My Own Decision Car Mom Dad Died Add Series My Dad Cancer My Mom Accidents Three Years Homeless Coast Bad Decision Car Accident Piers

Author:Andy Andrews

“When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem.”

Years Self Self Esteem Esteem Anorexia

Author:Tracey Gold

“When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years. When I was 40, nobody wanted me.”

World Years Two Wanted Jobs Stars Numbers Two Years Oscars

Author:Mickey Rooney

“When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.”

Writing Years Firsts Book Class Computer Garbage Computer Science Science Class

Author:Jim McKelvey

“When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.”

Firsts Made Stills Enough Jobs Pay Week Musician Clubs Quitting Factories Good Week

Author:Billy Joel

“When I was 19, I thought [Brokeback Mountain] was going to be the best movie ever made. And everyone was going to see it and it was just going to be incredible. And then nobody saw it and it didn't get bought at Sundance. And it was a really great experience. Humbling. And then it's since found its way.”

Way Made Found Saws Mountain Incredibles Being The Best Really Great Humbling Great Experiences Sundance Brokeback Mountain

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“When I was 19, I was in a horrific car accident, and it taught me that at the end of our life, we ask all these questions. And my questions, I discovered, were: Did I really live my life? Did I love? Did I matter? And I was unhappy with the answers.”

Ends Matter Asks Answers Our Lives Car Taught Accidents Unhappy Living My Life Horrific Car Accident

Author:Brendon Burchard

“When I was 2 my mom said she knew I was going to be a singer. I`ve been performing ever since I was a young kid. So I`ve known I wanted to do this for awhile. I always knew in my heart that I`d be singing.”

Heart Said Kids Wanted Young Known Mom My Heart Singing My Mom Singers Performing

Author:Avril Lavigne

“When I was 2, I used to put pictures of the Manhattan skyline in a little scrapbook. And I used to wear American 'stars and stripe' vests and Daytona Beach stuff and they used to call me 'The Little Yankee.' Thank you to my producers for having faith in a little nobody from Lancashire.”

Littles Used Stars Stuff Producers Beach Call Me Have Faith Yankees Manhattan Stripes Vests Skylines Daytona Lancashire

Author:Tracie Bennett

“When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.”

Country Moved West Miles Imposing Mansions Wales Cardiff 8 Mile

Author:Roald Dahl

“When I was 20 and ran my first race, I told myself I don't know how I'm going to do this for a living. I don't have the money to do it. But it is what I want to do.”

Knows Want Firsts Race Know How Ran

Author:Dale Jarrett

“When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.”

Modern Proud Grey Penguins Bookcases

Author:Linda Grant

“When I was 20 or 21, I didn't... I won't say care about anything, but you're like in your own world - you made something that you always wanted to do, and then you kind of think only about your family and yourself.”

Thinking World Kind Made Care Wanted Sports Our Family

Author:Thierry Henry

“When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.”

Giving Play Wanted Song Noise Loud Damn Construction Umpires

Author:Ritchie Blackmore

“When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I dont know what to say, really.”

Thinking Knows Stills Past Ridiculous Finding Yourself Music Business

Author:Vince Clarke

“When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.”

Want Looks Happens Young Patience Great Things Mature Time And Patience

Author:Elisha Cuthbert

“When I was 20, I was contemplating quitting. I was at the first event of the season and I overhead a conversation between two girls. One told the other, "God still loves you," and that caught my attention. Later that day, I caught up with the girl and asked her what she meant. Before then, I'd never really thought about God. But there was an undeniable stirring in me and I couldn't ignore it.”

Firsts Stills Two Girl Attention Love You Events Conversation Seasons Caught Quitting Contemplating Caught Up Stirring Overhead Still Love You

Author:Kelly Clark

“When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.”

Way Too Much Drinking

Author:Del Shannon

“When I was 20, I would have taken a bullet in the head to never have to be 35.”

Taken Bullets

Author:Michael J. Fox

“When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.”

Firsts Earth Political Reading News First Time

Author:Bjork

“When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.”

Want Made Stills Pieces Wonderful My Favorite Rhythm Theme Composer Fifth Symphony Outstanding Classical Composers Shostakovich

Author:Dave Brubeck

“When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work.”

Years Work Perfect Wife Married This Society Back To Work Perfect Wife

Author:Pia Zadora

“When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.”

Thinking Should Kind Late Twenties Busy Right Thing Too Busy Doing The Right Thing Late Twenties

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.”

Writing Wanted Religious Scripts Editors Cult Such Is Life Religious Cults

Author:Zadie Smith

“When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.”

Years Jobs Shapes Traditional Stomach Squares Shopping Pants Centre Santa Rail Santa Claus Sofas Cushions Sacramento

Author:Tom Hanks

“When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.”

Writing Firsts Lying First Time Europe Inspired Focused Accidents Motorcycle Aftermath

Author:Chantal Kreviazuk

“When I was 22, I finally reached that huge goal. Now I'm going for another one. It's so satisfying. It's something that I worked for for so long, and just to know that I got it feels so great.”

Knows Feels Long Goal Huge Satisfying

Author:Jonathan Horton

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