Quotes About Childhood

If I played badly as a kid, my dad would tell me, and my mum would say, 'You were brilliant today'. It's nice to have both: when I need a bit of confidence, I'll see her, and if I need to hear it straight, I'll see my dad.

I've known Stuart Broad since he was a child, living up the road from me.

I have always loved broadcasting - as a child in Liverpool, I would wake up and listen to Morning Merseyside on BBC Radio Merseyside and wonder, 'How do they do that?'

I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's affection inside a Broadway theater - that didn't come easily to me.

My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.

Doing Broadway was always a dream of mine since I was a little girl.

I knew when I was a kid that I had a Broadway voice. I wanted to be a rocker, because I grew up in that era of transistor radios at the beach.

It was a dream to be on Broadway as a kid, so to actually end up there, I loved it.

If you had asked me when I was little, like, 'Imagine you were on Broadway,' I'd be like, 'Yeah, right.'

I broke everything inside the house - boom! - but my mother was always very nice. She'd say, 'OK, OK, have another ball.'

I grew up in a broken home.

I grew up in the Bronx.

I grew up in Brooklyn.

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

I always felt most at home on a basketball court, dating all the way back to when I was growing up in Brooklyn.

My mom grew up in Brooklyn.

My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.

Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.

There was a 10- and 8-year difference between us, so my brothers were into tormenting me and I was into getting away from them.

We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.

I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.

I grew up with brothers, and we would play-fight a lot.

I was born and brought up in Ambala.

I was born and brought up in Vizag 'til 12th Class.