Quotes About Childhood

At the age of eight, I auditioned for 'The Sound of Music' and made it through to the third round, where we all stood in a row like the Von Trapp family and had to sing.

My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.

I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.

I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school.

When I was a kid I was always afraid of small dogs, because they always seemed like the ones that would attack.

My dad always watched wrestling and I seldom did.

I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.

I've been a horror fan pretty much in the sense that my sense of horror and my sense of humor were both equally kindled by films as a kid.

Both of my parents have great senses of humor.

I was a sensitive boy.

I was a sensitive kid.

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

My father and my mother separated when I was two.

I can distinctly remember being the only boy in my class whose parents had separated.

My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.

My parents separated when I was two, and then my father passed away, so I never really knew that side of the family.

My parents are separated. My father left when I was six years old.

I had huge separation anxiety as a kid.

I remember watching 'Sesame Street' as a kid and loving that there were Latino characters on there.

I learned watching Sesame Street how to speak English, and Bert and Ernie were my best friends. I believed in them and I learned from them, how to have a healthy and happy relationship.

I've always loved the beauty world. Ever since I was a child, I looked at magazines and wore fragrances and tried out samples and sets.

I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.

Growing up as a child actress, I was tutored on movie and TV sets.

I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.