Quotes About Childhood

My mom liked to have us travel in first class with her. She's like, 'I work for my money, and I want my kids to live a certain kind of way.' My dad used to get so mad at my mom for flying us first class. So it was a clash on that.

When I was growing up, we used to be like the Royle family, sitting around watching lots of TV and commenting on it. It was our focal point.

I loved when my folks would watch 'The Dean Martin Show.'

I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasn't being challenged enough, so my mom put him in the theater class. And I obviously followed him.

I have been a Barca fan since I was a child and followed them since they had Romario, Rivaldo and Ronaldo.

I followed the Jazz as a kid.

I've always had an entourage. Even when I was a little kid, I had a lot of little children following around me.

Following a pre-cellphone world of children on an adventure is incredibly appealing for me. These are the kinds of movies I fell in love with and made me want to be a filmmaker in the first place.

Working with Suriya is like a dream-come-true moment for me. I've been following Suriya's films right from my childhood.

I eat healthy - I have never been fond of eating oily food right since childhood.

I've got a lot of very fond memories playing football from the ages of four.

I have very fond memories of the way I grew up.

When I was a small boy, I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than everyone else.

When I was a kid, I had serious athlete's foot and nosebleeds.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

I thought I had the potential to be a better fighter than I'd ever be a football player. Besides, it was something my father always wanted me to do. He told me since I was a little kid I was a born fighter.

I always told myself I'd never be like my mother if I had a kid, but here I am, the same thing. I don't know how this happened. The same type of disciplining, the same kind of forcing him to perform in front of people, not buying him things when I could afford whatever he wanted - it's crazy!

I joke that I came out of my mother with chopsticks in my hands. But one of my earliest memories is of my dad forcing me to learn to eat with chopsticks.

I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford's 'Good Solider' or something I wasn't equipped to understand.

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.

My favorite thing to do in the summer was to sleep out in the forest on the farm I grew up on.

I wouldn't even call myself a former child star. I was a child actor; there's a difference.

My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.

When I was a kid, my dad was in construction and used to move the family back and forth between central Florida's east and west coasts.