Quotes About Memories

My grandmother had a couple of strange books published by the Woolfs. I didn't know her - she was dead by the time I was born. But I knew my grandfather. He was lovely.

My mum and dad had four pubs when we were growing up, but the main one was the New Inn in Hattersley, on the estate. It was a very good pub.

So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.

Pub life was such a huge part of growing up for me, going to pubs and being around them. It made me who I am today.

Everyone has a favourite cake, pastry, pudding or pie from when they were kids.

I was dancing for my grandpa from the time I was 4 or 5 years old in Puerto Rico.

Growing up I was listening to Puff and Biggie.

You have to really understand that although certain memories or stories make you sad, you are not sad. Pull yourself out from that emotion and remember that.

A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman's cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle still grazed on the meadows near Church Farm.

I used to carry my father's Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

I cut 'Diamond in My Crown' in my home in Georgia, because I wanted to use an old 1848 pump organ that my mother-in-law had gotten for Emory for Christmas one year. His mother would be proud to know that pump organ was made use of.

My older brother used to punch me all the time because I was a nerd.

My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of Inwood and get special shamrock cookies. Hawaiian Punch was served and we had shamrock napkins. It was a lot of fun.

I used to collect computer punch cards from the data centers.

For a gut punch of nostalgia, consider that Saturday morning cartoons are now largely a thing of the past.

Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three years old. I don't remember doing that, and I think it was more that I was very energetic.

Driving to set for 'The Rig', the route went right past my old secondary school. Every morning when I was going to work, I was passing Leithy and thinking: 'Oh my God, there's where Billy Gilfillan punched me in the mouth' or whatever.

My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the pasture. Cows bit me all over.

In my family, my earliest memory of you get out of line is - BAM! It was a lot of corporal punishment. But you can't do that.

I will always consider myself a punk because of those experiences in high school. It will always be a part of me.

AC/DC 'Back in Black' - Those were my punk rock days.

At school, there were more Davids than any other name: more than 20 of us cousins out of 40 pupils. When my older cousins moved on, the school had to close.

'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred, but fascinated, me with puppets and dolls, clowns and stuff like that.