Quotes About Childhood

These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know.

When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.

My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.

When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

I was two years old when my mom put me in mommy and me classes. I always had a lot of energy so it was the perfect fit!

Barack's mother was very important to him, but he spent a great deal of his life living in a different place. So, as all kids do, you always have a fantasy of what perfection would be. And my guess is that Michelle's childhood was his idea of perfection. It allowed him to anchor himself with her and with her family.

When I was a kid, I was very much a perfectionist, and I had a bunch of different compulsions.

I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother used to be like... 'Really, are you badly behaved with other people?' I was like, 'No, not at all.' But the minute she used to leave the room, I was a brat.

I was singing before I started acting. As a kid, I would always perform at the big family parties.

I used to perform with my mother when I was young. This groomed me in a major way.

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.

I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That's probably why it's so scary, because they scared me.

I started singing when I was about 3 and dancing soon after. Mom just started looking for outlets where I could perform and availed herself of any opportunity she could in the mountains of North Carolina in the '70s.

I wrote a lot of plays when I was little, and I made everyone in the neighborhood perform them with me. I was probably a really annoying friend to have when I was little.

As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up. I want to bring it back to the early '80s Muppet movies, when the scripts could have been performed by humans.

I've always performed magic as a kid.

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

I think I was about seven when people started telling my parents I would be an actor or a performer of some kind.