Quotes About Childhood

Barbies were banned at our house, along with television other than PBS. As a kid, I found this horribly embarrassing.

As a kid I was always barefoot, always outside and as an adult I always want to be outside.

I lost my father when I was barely 10.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.

I played basketball when I was little because it was fun for me. It still is now. I just love it. I have a passion for it.

I was a very shy kid. The only place I had confidence was in between the lines of a basketball court.

When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it.

As a child, I always wanted to be the last one to take a bath because I knew I could close the door and spend hours just having my bath and singing.

Ever since I was a little kid, I told my mom that I want to go to Hollywood and make a 'Batman' movie.

I had Batman stuff all over my house growing up.

When I was a kid, there were probably 100 schools in the Bay Area that just did martial arts.

My dad and I would perform around the Bay Area where I'm from in California together, and I also did talent shows growing up, I loved it.

My parents are both artists, they had a theater company in the Bay Area for a long time called Virago. I never really had a choice - when I was two years old, I was the baby in a play that they did, and it kind of just happened naturally.

I started on the beach in Santa Barbara with my father when I was six.

When you're small, you either are funny, or you get beat up a lot.

When I was a kid, beating England was incredible; it always had greater repercussion than beating anyone else.

I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.

We didn't have an awful lot of space. There were six of us born within the space of seven or eight years - I was third. I remember sharing a room with one or other of my brothers - at one point we had three single beds in one room.

I'm nearsighted, in part, because I would read past my bedtime in the dark. I didn't want my mom to see that I was still awake.

When I was a kid, people people would always say, 'Oh you look like Chilli from TLC.' It wasn't until I did 'Akeelah and the Bee' that people started saying I looked like Angela Bassett, but before then it was Chilli.

I'd always listened to my parents' Bee Gees albums.

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

As kids, my mom would always let us help bake, and if we behaved, we got to lick the beaters clean.