Quotes About Childhood

I always used to pretend to be different characters - cowboys, that sort of thing. I used to think that the Indians lived over the mountains that I could see out of my bedroom. As I grew up, I started to understand that acting was actually a craft, and there was no question about it, that was exactly what I was going to do.

I didn't like Barbie dolls, so I used to have this overactive imagination, and I used to pretend to be all these different things. My weird childhood fetishes seem to have come to life now as an actor.

I was always a 'let's pretend' kind of kid.

Growing up, I idolised Madhuri Dixit. She's my favourite actress, and I used to pretend I was her all the time.

'The Giver' by Lois Lowry - I had to read this in school, and I fell in love with it. It was my favorite book as a child, and I read and reread it. I would pretend I lived in that world and that Asher was my best friend.

I have always been an extrovert. When I was younger, I would go outside and sing to the flowers and pretend they were the orchestra. As one of my parents' friends said, I was an odd boy.

Adults don't have the opportunity to pretend anymore.

I was a big fan of Marvin Gaye, and when my parents were at work, I would get in front of the mirror, put my father's clothes on and pretend I was singing Marvin Gaye songs.

I remember being about six years old, for the first day of school, and sitting in the back of a Chrysler, pretending to cry while listening to Tracy Chapman.

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

I mean, I feel like I've been pretending I was a werewolf since I was a little kid.

Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.

The happiest that I remember myself was putting on plays and pretending to be other people.

I used to hide behind doors pretending to be a mouse listening to the grown up's conversations. I always wanted to hear them plotting peoples deaths so I could dob them in to the police. unfortunately there were no murderers in my family.

I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole.

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.

I must have been a really pretentious little girl.

I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.

When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

We had a severely autistic kid in my class, and I was always picked last in gym class, even after him. Naturally, that made me feel pretty bad as an eight-year-old.

Babies should be classified as an antidepressant. It's pretty hard to be in a bad mood around a 5-month-old baby.

I think our kids live an extraordinarily different life than what I lived growing up. Pretty much everything about their life is different than mine was.

Kids are pretty brutal.