Quotes About Childhood

In the second half of primary school, I liked live-action shows and giant-monster movies, and then in junior high, I got into regular movies.

I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.

My childhood hero was Timmy Mallett. He came to my primary school and it was the best day.

I was a very anxious kid. I was bullied at primary school and responded by making myself as anonymous as possible at secondary school.

I only ever became conscious of how hairy I was when I got to Year Six, the last year of primary school.

At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I went to a run-of-the-mill Catholic primary school when we first moved to L.A. But then I went to a high school where there were lots of 'industry' children. Those weren't my best friends and I've never set out to make myself a part of that scene.

I got the name in primary school because my hair was shaggy. And I didn't like it; I thought it was derogatory.

Clearly, when I first started talking about the fact that I wanted to be an astronaut, I was in primary school, so people understand that we want to be all kinds of things then. It's not a big deal.

My mum was my primary school cook which was handy because she used to give me extra portions. After school me and my brother used to go in the kitchen and wait for her there, and she used to give us a bit of cake and things.

I went to a Christian primary school where I felt included and no different to my peers.

My dad, Chris, is from St Kitts. He worked in computers. I remember the first laptop when he brought it home. People from primary school came to check it out - it was huge.

At primary school I was in a world of my own and often I would get told off for being too loud, Then when I was around six, I woudn't go to class. I would be in school , but running around the playground having a great time while everyone else was in lessons.

A child is born with a degree of primitive savagery and somebody must discipline it out of him. This Is where the government of the home comes in.

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.

I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman.

I have daughters. They love Disney princesses.

If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy's little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships.

I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies.

Honestly, I've been asking myself how it would feel to be Princess Leia since I was seven years old.

When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.

My fantasy life was very full. Certainly when I was a kid, I probably wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be a princess, or something magical, and get to dress up magically, and have the kind of life that I hadn't been born into, with magic powers or whatever, and live this wonderful idealised life.

I remember meeting the princesses at Disney World and getting their autographs.

I always have Band-Aids, ideally ones with princesses on them, because they're the best.

It all started when I was 4. I was watching a lot of 'The Little Mermaid,' and I loved that movie. I was going around the house singing - I wanted to be on Disney and everything; I wanted to be a princess.