Quotes About Childhood

I'm a natural blonde. I was a towhead as a kid, and then it got ashier when I was 18.

If you make a film about childhood, you've got to pick a moment - you know, 'The 400 Blows.'

I was singing the blues when I was six. Kind of sad, eh?

The blues has been in my life since I was little.

I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

As a child, I always wanted to live on a boat.

I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.

As kids, we all thought Bob Marley was Maori.

The idea that I had a bohemian childhood is laughable.

'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf.

Now that I have a child of my own, I'm in awe of - and deeply grateful for - the time my parents spent in taking me to bookstores.

When I was a kid, I used to spend a lot of time at home because of the war. We couldn't go out and play or go to school. Boredom was a big part of my life.

I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.

I remember borrowing my mum's Instamatic 110 camera as a kid and doing still lifes of tennis balls and benches and thinking they were going to be something really amazing. They ended up being really bad.

The first film I ever remember - I think my mother took me to it - was called 'She Married Her Boss' with Melvyn Douglas.

I was a sporadically bossy child.

I'm a kid from Boston.

I love Boston, and I had a very lovely childhood in Massachusetts.

I grew up in Boston.

Both my parents are doctors, so from the time I was a child, I wanted to do medicine.

Both my parents were working in politics when I was growing up, so going on stage was not that great a leap.

My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill Broonzy, and there he was sitting in our living room playing, and blues was in my heart from the time I was 12 years old.

When I was just four-and-a-half, my parents separated and both my parents remarried.

Both my parents are doctors, but I'm passionate about dance and have always wanted to act since I was a child.