Quotes About Childhood

My brother was scouted for a commercial when he was three, and it was just because he could speak clearly and was well behaved, basically. I don't think he had any amazing acting ability at that age - although he is actually a great actor.

I did a commercial for a phone company when I was five. But my first big thing was when I was eight. I was on the first season of 'E.R.'

I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it.

When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

I've been watching Maybelline commercials since I was little and singing along with the jingle and doing little Maybelline commercials in my bathroom when I was, like, 10.

I wasn't very good a communicating as a kid. I wasn't very good at speaking my mind, and I went through some challenges as a kid with my family, as we all do.

I fled communism as a child. That's an experience that can shape you forever.

I was 6 when communism was finished.

When you grow up, you don't realize that your parents are any different than anybody else's. And their behavior - you have nothing to compare it to. So that is what normal is, even if it's abnormal.

There is nothing that compares to the bonding between parent and child in that first year of life. Study after study shows how both parents being involved in the early weeks and months of a child's life is good for the child's development.

I had 10 to 12 close buddies who I played ball with all the way from elementary to high school. That is where I learned to compete.

When I was a little boy, I always wanted to run. I loved competing with my friends.

I think I was just a very competitive child.

I'm very competitive. When I was, like, four, I would see a Shake 'N Bake commercial and see a little girl on that and think, 'I can do that. I might be better.'

People know a lot about my life - I've been on TV since I was three years old. And there's not a lot to complain about.

As a kid, I didn't know much about Prince - who he was and all the complexities of his personality - but I could still feel very close to him when I listened to his music.

I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.

One day, you have a father who's always around, and then the next day, he's gone. I was too young to comprehend that. I actually thought he was going to come back.

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

My dad used to work at IBM, so we used to get discounts on computers and stuff, and I did have a ThinkPad.

I got my first computer when I was 6, and I was part of that early generation of children who grew up with computers always being around. I fell in love with them early on.

As a child, as far as I was concerned, my dad had an amazing job, and we had all the money we needed. My life was so fun and carefree that I didn't realize at all that we weren't rich - until I met someone rich. Still, I've never met a rich kid who grew up as happy as I did.

My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.

I grew up in the '80s, and there was no bigger group than New Edition in R&B. I broke my piggy bank so me and my mom could go to a New Edition concert together.