My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook and she still cooks and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor but for an actor of a young age it's going to be even tougher.

I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.

I was taught from a young age that I had to serve so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

Well I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger which I think without flattering myself I did but I think I certainly have as George Orwell says people do after a certain age the face they deserve.

There was no respect for youth when I was young and now that I am old there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger which I think without flattering myself I did but I think I certainly have as George Orwell says people do after a certain age the face they deserve.

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

In fact my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts old age is slow in both.

In order to fix Social Security we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things but you're old enough too.

And in my own life in my own small way I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

Wives are young men's mistresses companions for middle age and old men's nurses.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

It were a real increase of human happiness could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings till they emerged sadder and wiser at the age of twenty-five.