Quotes About Childhood

I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.

One of the great many things I love about being a father is sharing my beloved childhood experiences with my kids.

When I took my kids to see the house that we're buying I took them in the car to the estate I grew up on. I got the kids out of the car and explained that this is where they're from.

Having parents who are chicken sexers - I had trouble explaining that to kids at school!

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home where there were a lot of rules. I didn't have 'yes' parents.

While I didn't have a father around, I did have - and what I want my children to both experience - the ability to explore, experiment and enjoy life as a kid.

I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.

With my childhood and growing up in a very free place where my parents were artists and always encouraging me to explore, you wouldn't think I was locked up in my own mind, but I was.

I believe a child's most important job is to explore the world around them through play.

Being exposed to the diversity of music I was as a kid made me the actor I am today. As an actor, you have to adapt and do so many different things.

In my child's-eye view, whenever I was exposed to pain, it meant that my mother had let me down.

When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.

I grew up one of three girls, and none of them were into comic books, so I wasn't exposed to that world.

My father filmed me all the time as a kid, and that's how I was first exposed to a camera.

I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.

I thank my dad for giving me a good exposure to comedy since childhood. He was a librarian and I would read a lot of comics.

I enjoyed entertaining people since I was a little girl. There was nothing better than making people laugh. That, and the need to express myself in a safe environment.

I was well indulged as a child by my relentlessly self-improving, working class parents to express myself.

Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.

To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicken's head being chopped off with the chicken running around. I wasn't sure if my imagination was running away with me or if it really happened. It really happened.

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.