Quotes About Childhood

I used to love Jem and the Holograms. I think if they were doing a concert, I would stand in line to see Jem and the Holograms.

I think the first concert I attended was Coldplay with my dad when I was around eight years old.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.

When I was young I wanted to be a bus driver, because my grandad was a conductor on the Routemasters.

I was a very confident little kid.

I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5.

I was six years old when the conflict started in Rwanda.

The version I got of Christianity was quite confusing to me, even as a child, because there were certain things that didn't add up.

I remember learning as a kid that love meant loneliness and confusion.

Our dad was just a congressman for 27 years, and if you live in Washington, D.C., everybody's dad works for the government. We grew up just like everyone else.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

I didn't want to go see mountainous areas as a kid - I wanted to be around town, around New York, around Connecticut.

I asked myself what it was that I wanted from writing and where my connection with books began, and the answer to that question was definitely in childhood, because that's where my connection with reading began.

I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that I really lacked, I believe, growing up.

Because of the Lebanese civil war, I had a scattered childhood. I had to build my own connections to each country we moved to.

When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.

I grew up in a religious community, and like everyone, I went through a period of doubt and later made a conscious choice to embrace the faith of my childhood.

Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.

I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.

My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the time. So by the time I get to Hong Kong, I become the only child and the only one surrounded by adults, you know.

I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.

You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

I had a very happy childhood. I was lucky to grow up surrounded by nature and animals, to be outside all the time, and to work on a big farm with my dad.