Quotes About Childhood

When I was nine or 10, I remember having a dinner party at my mum and dad's house. I wanted to have a Thanksgiving dinner because I'd watched so many films that had Thanksgiving in it and I thought: 'Why do we not celebrate this?' So I cooked this big Thanksgiving dinner for probably 10 people and I wouldn't let anybody help me.

Growing up, I didn't have great family dinners. We sat down every night, and my mother cooked food, but it was always about who was going to leave the table crying first.

I grew up playing with dinosaurs instead of Barbie dolls.

Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.

I grew up loving dinosaurs, digging up things.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a palaeontologist. I wanted to dig up dinosaurs.

When you're little you either want to be like your dad or be directly opposite.

I grew up on a dirt road with brothers.

When I was little, I asked my mom to move us to Los Angeles and get me an agent. She would say, 'Stop it. Go play in the dirt.'

I grew up in Gladstone, Alabama, on a dirt road, with an outside bathroom.

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

When I was about eight, my mom started disappearing for days at a time, probably with one of the guys she was dating. There would be no food.

I'm the kid who wanted to grow up and be Bugs Bunny. I was very, very disappointed when I realized I couldn't grow up and be a cartoon character.

My whole childhood, I'd been dreaming of this two-point-four children, living in the country - everything was just going to fall into place, and I'd be this perfect mum. And it didn't happen. I was very shocked and disappointed.

When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.

Until I read Neill's book, 'Summerhill,' I thought there were only two ways to bring up children, either with authoritarian discipline or with permissiveness. Either way, hopefully, applied with love. Now I know there is a third way: teaching a child self*regulation, not by coercion or by abandoning discipline, but by freedom with responsibility.

I watched 'Disco Dancer' when I was very young. I have always loved its songs.

I did not discover literature of any kind until I was about eleven, or ten.

I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.

I was a very happy kid. I didn't get new bikes very often. We ate a lot of chicken legs for dinner. But I never felt in want of anything. I wasn't cognizant until much later of the discrepancy between what we had and what other people had.

Subconsciously, there was always an actor inside me. But while growing up, it was a very normal childhood because my dad never got films to the dining table and never discussed films.

When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.

I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life.

I love Disney movies.