Quotes About Childhood

My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.

What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today.

I think the idea of Mary Poppins has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.

The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.

I ran into Neal Patrick Harris recently. We were in something called The Purple People Eater. He was maybe 10, but he still remembered it as the worst experience of his life!

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child. When I was an adult, I no longer spoke like a child. When I became old and wise, I spoke again like a child. I wish I had spoken all my life like a child.

I quite liked Sharkey and George and then there was a cartoon with rapper MC Hammer in it - Hammertime - I loved that cartoon, it was genius! They don't make cartoons like that anymore.

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life.

I started acting when I was 5, and it was always a part of my life. My life and acting weren't separate things; they were always one.

The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.

The first years of a child's life are too important for a child's future - their development, earnings, behavior, and health - for anyone to ignore.

Games have always a big part of my life. I was that kid freaking out over his new Nintendo.

Pictures of my life stretch back into what must have been my very earliest childhood. ... They are not movies, then, nor are they talkies, but they are quite distinctly feelies.

I've never walked to an altar in my life. I gave my life to Christ in my bedroom as a child.

There's never been a parent in my life.

There was never any point in my life when I wasn't called Mr. Donen. I'm told my first words were, 'Call me Mr. Donen.' But I suspect that's apocryphal. My mother, Mrs. Donen, tended to exaggerate.

I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian.

I'll tell the only thing I know in this business, I have had the absolute privilege of making movies that I loved when I was a kid and loved my whole life.

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.

When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.

Marnie was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.