Quotes About Childhood

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.

I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas.

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then.

Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watching prison movies, which is probably why prisoners talked like that, too.

I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' magazine.

Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many others have issues because their parents were around growing up

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

I was pretty quiet as a child. I kind of hung out with my family and listened to music and sh*t. I wasn't too outgoing at all.

When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings - soon the child and the music are one.

There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child.

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

I've dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.

I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.

Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.

Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child

I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.