Boy Quotes

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band form. We've heard a few people say that so now we use it. I think Pink is amazing person to be compared to.

I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.

I started training for musicals since I was a boy.

He didn't maintain my illusion of myself, he gave me an illusion of myself. Before I met him, I never thought of myself as an actress. Boy, he sidetracked me in a great way!

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.

The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.

I remember I had a fight with my friend when I touched a boy for the first time and I didn't tell her. She got mad with me, not because I didn't tell her but because I'd done it in the first place.

There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.'

I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.

Having a little boy has taken me to a very deep place. I am starting to realize everything I ever worried about was such a waste of time.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.

I had no idea this thing was televised. Boy, is my face red.

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.

I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.