Early Signs Quotes

I have been addicted to crime since I was born. I was making up crime stories when I was a 4- or 5-year-old kid.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

My mum says that, when I was a couple of months old and couldn't even stand up yet, I'd try and kick a ball. She knew I'd be into football. Maybe I was just destined to do this.

I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.

My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids.

I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it’s that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it’s going to work. It’s astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks.

Problems always start long before you really, really see them.

When I ask my parents, it's incredibly obvious I was going to have a creative career at an early age. I've been forever telling stories since I was very young.

I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower.

Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.