Quotes About Childhood

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling about, 'cause I read comics as a kid. Someone drew me, and actually did a pretty good job!

Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.

I never wanted to be an actor as a kid. I wanted to play hockey, like every other kid in Canada. I had a pretty good shot at it until I was 15 and badly injured myself.

I come from a family with many dancers, my aunts learnt dance, so did Kamal Haasan and, as a child I learnt it, too.

When you are a kid, you find so much comfort in dancing. I was comforted.

I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.

I always loved comedy growing up - Bob Hope, Red Skelton and Danny Kaye.

I don't think comedy necessarily comes from a dark place. But I do think what a lot of us have in common is that, growing up, being funny was a coping mechanism.

I have a really early childhood memory of being in a darkroom with Mum when I was four or five.

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

My daughter was a beautiful child.

My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.

My daughter, when she was younger, was crazy about 'The X-Files,' so I'd watch that with her.

I was a big Dave Winfield guy growing up.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

Even as a kid, I was more enchanted watching Bette Davis than Errol Flynn.

When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like being deaf.

They thought I was deaf when I was a kid because I was always totally off in my own little world.

When I was setting out as a kid, five, six, seven years old, England was a dream. One of my best days as a player was my England debut - but it didn't quite happen after that!

New York is such an amazing place. It's a city that I've wanted to live in since I was a little girl, my brother and I both. We both live here now and we've lived here for decades. My kids were born here.

I started cooking when I was growing up in Hyderabad, and I was already pretty decent when I was around seven years old.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.