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When I was 17, I decided I was going to leave home.
— Zach Roerig
In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.
— Michel Faber
I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
When you're 17 in the suburbs and know only three gay people, holding hands with your girlfriend is a proclamation.
— Mary Lambert
When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.
— Paul Mooney
I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.
— Mathieu Amalric
I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.
— Ben Hogan
How can you walk away," Connor finally says, "when they're about to overthrow the Cap-17 law?
— Neal Shusterman
I started acting when I was 17. I started modeling when I was 13. It helps in the way that you don't get fazed by cameras too much.
— Sandrine Holt
When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.
— Julie Kagawa
It is all my fault! But the blind man when he stumbles over a stone, curses the stone, not the blindness that made him stumble. 17
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
When we are at our weakest, God is at his best, ready to step in and say to us as he said to Hagar, "Do not be afraid" (Genesis 21:17).
— Ann Spangler
Shout-out to my dad - he influenced my style when I was 17.
— Theophilus London
Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.
— Jessica Brown Findlay
I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn't go into work until late in my life.
— Carolina Herrera
I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.
— Jonathan Evison
When I was on 'Idol' and 17, everything was so new. Everyone is so nice and wants to see you succeed.
— Jordin Sparks
My first car was a Toyota 4Runner when I was 17. I paid for it myself. I was very happy.
— Apolo Ohno
I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.
— Christopher Reeve
I was 17 years old when I was killed by a vampire-Ruby Kennedy from My Handsome Vampire.
— Vianka Van Bokkem
I'm this high school dropout. I quit in my sophomore year, when I was 15. I worked for a while in a deli, and when I was almost 17, I got married.
— Mary Beth Whitehead
I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.
— Anthony Hopkins
My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
— Olivia Cooke
When I was 17, I was excited to graduate from high school!
— Tyler Blackburn
The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.
— Joe Elliott
When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
— Florence Henderson
I read a lot and fell in love with comics and science fiction. I even self-published some of my comics when I was 16 or 17.
— Toni Jerrman
For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.
— Jonathan Dimbleby
I'd moved to L.A. with my mother when I was 17 or 18. She loved show business and I was young enough that I had no idea what I wanted to do.
— Sherilyn Fenn
I could have signed for Newcastle when I was 17, but I decided I would be better off at Carlisle. I'd had a drink that night.
— Peter Beardsley
I mean I'm 16 and 17 years wiser now. So if I could do it when I was 18 with a guy, I can certainly do it at 33 with a lady.
— Charlie Hunnam
When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.
— Lionel Messi
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
— Tanith Lee
I left home when I was 17 with Joe Williams.
— David Edwards
When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was.
— Tony Kaye
I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.
— Sydney Wayser
I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.
— Ernest Cline
When I got to be about 16,17 I got into a beauty pageant and I was allowed to start playing around with makeup.
— Halle Berry
I started a theater company when I was 17.
— Stephen Moyer
When I was 17, I worked at a bagel shop - I ate so many! I was also in all the school musicals, which we rehearsed for during the afternoons.
— Jenna Ushkowitz
When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.
— Seymour Cassel
My mother died when I was 17, and I moved in with my dad to make a 12-month pig's ear of retaking my A-levels.
— Robert Webb
I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.
— Francis Ford Coppola
When I was 17, I was hyperactive and annoyed my teachers.
— Keegan Allen
I went straight out of high school, and when I was 17, all I wanted to do was play guitar.
— John Petrucci
I went to do my first big movie when I was 17. I was in South Africa for three and half months, and I was by myself.
— Robert Pattinson
When I was 17, I broke up with my future wife.
— Kris Allen
If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
— Alex Kapranos
I enjoy acting more and more than when I was 17.
— Tommy Lee Jones
I've always been interested in beauty. I studied it when I was 16 and 17, and I know it's a good idea to invest in something alongside my music.
— Rebecca Ferguson
It's kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL
— Wayne Gretzky
I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor.
— Jason Reeves
When I was 16 or 17, when I started, I never even considered not doing a project. I just wanted to work.
— Penelope Cruz
I used to make fun of young people when I was 17 - the angst, the insecurities, all those tattoos.
— Craig Kilborn
Hey, I took karate when I was 17 years old; I am dangerous.
— Michele Bachmann
I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
— Rand Paul
The first tattoo I got was when I was 17, and it's a cross on my bicep with 'Only God Can Judge Me' underneath.
— Trey Songz
I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.
— Zoe Kravitz
I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and my parents were devastated.
— Gretchen Carlson
I'm weirdly flexible, so when I dance, I dance like a 17-year-old girl.
— Michael Angarano
When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kind of negative about everything.
— Cecily Von Ziegesar
I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
— Francesca Annis
I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.
— Gloria Swanson
Since being 17, I can honestly say I've only been ill twice on drink. I stop when I feel happy, so I don't throw up.
— Nikki Sanderson
The only thing I had in my mind [when I was 17 ] was that I was going to be a professional musician. So it was just the right environment.
— John Petrucci
When I was 17, I signed my record deal and passed my driver's test. It was a very good year!
— Conor Maynard
When I sign people's stuff, I put down John 3:16 and 17.
— Si Robertson
George W. Bush even stopped in Pennsylvania to try his hand at the lotto and gave up when he could only think of the numbers 4 and 17
— Craig Kilborn
I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I was very social. I liked to know everyone.
— Natasha Bedingfield
When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.
— Julia Bacha
I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.
— Skylar Grey
I practice yoga even when my schedule doesn't allow me to teach. I've been practicing for 17 years, since before it became hip.
— Brenda Strong
When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days.
— Richard Donner