Quotes About Childhood

Both my parents worked when I was growing up.

When I was small, my parents came back from Tijuana, and my dad bought me a very small acoustic guitar. I loved it. I started making up my own songs right away.

I was running around and bouncing out of the pram as a baby.

My mother was a doctor and so I spent a lot of time with Hirabai, our maid. One day, she got home and saw Hirabai bouncing me on her lap and cooing, 'Chunky, chunky.' She liked the name and it stuck.

I didn't have boundaries when I was growing up. I knew the difference between right and wrong, and all the things a kid needs to know, but nobody ever said to me, 'You can't do that, because that's not what girls are supposed to do. That's more of a boy thing.'

I had a bowl cut. That was pretty bad. Definitely a bowl cut. And I used to have blond, like really, really, blond hair when I was a kid. So blond bowl cut - that's what I was rocking when I was a little kid.

I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.

Color has always been important to me, ever since my first deluxe box of Crayolas.

I boxed a lot as a kid, so it's something that comes second nature to me.

Boxing was just another one to keep me going as a child.

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood.

I spent my whole childhood in leotards, tutus, sports bras; I was showing my midriff from the age of three.

When I was a kid, if someone had asked who I'd meet if it could be anyone in the world, it would've been Liam Brady.

That's a thing you most look forward to as a kid. The newest clothes or the newest shoes. Definitely getting the newest shoes and bragging to your friends about it.

I have been a total brat since my childhood. Because of me, my mother's day was over by afternoon as just managing me, she was exhausted.

I was a military brat; we moved all around.

I wasn't brave enough to read the R. L. Stine book series when I was younger. But my brother read as many of them as he could.

I have been watching Brazil since I was a little kid.

I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn't help but read anything that was in front of me.

I actually stop breathing, I think it's 80 times a night, because I have sleep apnea. I've had it since I was a kid.

The only other thing that interested me as a kid was being a bricklayer. So if I hadn't become an actress, I would probably be a bricklayer.

I did 'Bridge to Terabithia' when I was around 6 years old, but for my first movie, I was 5.

I was born in Egypt, and my family moved to London when I was seven. I grew up mostly in Clapham, where I also went to school after a brief stint in Whitechapel.