Quotes About Childhood

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.

My brother and I spent our childhood in movie theaters screaming. I decided early on that that was the epitome of entertainment. I'm always trying for that same level of adrenaline in my books.

The first movie I saw was 'Prince of Egypt' - that was the first movie I saw in theaters.

I remember my parents taking me to see 'The Exorcist' in theaters when I was really young. They're Cuban and didn't really speak English, so I don't think they got that it was a movie about a girl possessed by the devil.

I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to theatre, and if that child has a great experience at a pantomime they will continue to come year after year.

At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.

I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities.

I've been doing theatre since I was 5 years old.

My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.

I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.

I grew up performing in theatre.

I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.

I was a bit odd as a kid, because there were so little outlets for me. There was no theatre except for the odd community theatre and school shows. The only movie theatre was at the Canadian Forces Base nearby in Comox, so it either showed kiddie flicks for the families and restricted stuff for the men.

My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious eight-year-old girls by acting the wallflower. I realised then that I couldn't do things half-heartedly.

I was always a pretty theatrical kid, a draggy kid... a little sissy. I dressed up in my grandma's heels and clothes... It's always been in me.

When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me.

I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.

My parents were not theatrical at all.

As a child, I always thought about big screen and even played in a amateur theatrical studio.

My mum says I never had tantrums. I had elongated and very complicated tea parties in my cot, and I was sort of talking, I guess, quite young, and I would say, 'Oh, how lovely to see you, do come in!' I'd have these theatrical tea parties by myself with my imaginary friends.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I think my mom thought I was ready for the German chocolate cake that she makes for my dad. Just the sight of that, the taste of that frosting, just reminds me of being at home with my mom and my dad and my sister and my friends.

I'm always fascinated by the theme of children who parent the adults.