Quotes About Childhood

Supriyaji is my all-time favourite actor. 'Tu Tu Main Main' was the first show I watched as a kid, and I have loved her work since then.

It wasn't our favourite place, where we grew up.

A fearful child cannot learn.

I was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer.

As a kid, I was fearless during the day. But at nighttime, I needed to be home.

We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.

I'm a movie buff. My mom would take me to a double feature. We'd come out, go have Chinese food, and then go back into another cinema and see another double feature. I feel I'm a child of the movies.

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think.

My parents are both huge science-fiction and fantasy fans - I was fed it.

I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I choose to eat as an adult, they would've lost custody.

I grew up a chubby girl. I had two brothers. My parents loved us, they just fed us whatever we wanted.

As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back - to be 'taught' - is disturbing.

My mom took me to a taekwondo class, and I fell in love. I was seven years old.

I fell into acting by going to a callback for J.C. Penney with my two older brothers when I was 4 1/2 years old. The casting director saw me and asked to bring me in the room with them. The three of us ended up booking the commercial!

Dahl was my favorite author as a child. When I got older, I discovered his adult stories and fell even more in love with him.

I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.

I had always been pegged for being feminine. People would always say, 'Ooh, that's a pretty little girl.' They would talk about my eyelashes or that I was sensitive or that I was crying all the time. I didn't want to play in the dirt outside with the boys.

When I was a child, it was segregated, and I couldn't go across a fence to certain parts of Gainesville.

I used to get called 'Ferrari' when I was a kid because I was always running everywhere.

I was four days old when I went to my first bluegrass festival.