Quotes About Childhood

It's every little girl's dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It's amazing.

I have never been a girlie girl and have always been a boys' girl with an equal amount of friends who were boys and girls.

I liked the girly cartoons. I was very much a girly-girl.

My parents did give me a lot of books - biographies of Marie Curie - and I did read them, because I was interested.

I credit my singing to my mom because she didn't give me a binky when I was a baby. I cried and screamed for the first six months - my mom would say four years of my life - and I developed wonderful lungs.

I'd stand on a coffee table, and my cousin Edith would give me dimes, and you put the dimes on your head... And when your forehead was full, show was over.

I'm glad I was in 'The Shining.' It was not a bad experience for me. It just wasn't something that panned out and I decided to go back to being a regular kid.

When I was 8 years old, I asked my parents to get me head shots, and they were like, 'What are you talking about? Go outside and play!' I'm so glad they did.

As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.

I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.

I know it sounds glamorous, but it was bloody cold growing up in a castle.

My parents came out of Glasgow during the Depression and both - particularly my father - had very tough childhoods. They fought their way out of it.

When I was a child growing up in Glasgow my parents did Christmas incredibly well. They were as excited about it as we were.

My mother gave me boxing gloves; I wanted boxing gloves. I liked to box. So I still have them. They're still in my bookcase, very old, tattered, and they were cherished.

When I was a young boy in San Francisco, I remember being sent home from playing with a friend, and I remember the mother saying, 'Tell Jeffrey to go home.' And I said to the girl, 'Why?' She goes, 'My mother says that you're the people who killed Christ.'

For a while, I dallied with the idea of the law - I didn't really know what it was, but I thought it sounded sensible. And as a child, I wanted to be a goalkeeper. Or a butcher.

The Coogan Law had to come and it just happens that I was the goat for it.

I was in a commercial when I was three. My godfather was a director and a producer of commercials. He took me in along with his kids and I couldn't remember my lines. I giggled my way through the commercial and they kept it.

When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

Everyone has a goldfish when they're little.

I started when I was three, and on some courses they wouldn't let me play because they said I was too little. They wouldn't accept that a child could play. So my parents had to argue at times with some people at golf courses so I could.

As a kid, I really wasn't thinkin' about no golf.

When I was 4, my dad let me 'help' him back out of the driveway, but I'm amazing at driving golf carts.