Quotes About Childhood

You don't need to be right all the time. Your child wants a man for a father, not a formula. He wants real parents, real people, capable of making mistakes without moping about it.

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.

From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time

When I was a kid I wanted to be a musician. I used to play the trumpet. I practiced all the time, but I got braces and I couldn't play it anymore, so I had all of this free time.

I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're putting that on screen. It's not people wallowing in degradation.

I always thought I had a problem socially, because I was pulled out of school so early. I had a tough time talking to other kids and being comfortable with them.

I was interested in the environment from when I was a little kid. I spent most of my time hunting and fishing and kayaking.

Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.

I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.

I love 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' and I love 'Bugsy Malone.' I haven't seen 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' in a long time, but I remember loving it as a kid.

Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage.

I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.

My little boy Sonny makes me laugh all the time. He has good comedic timing.

I've been doing music for a pretty long time, since I was a kid, and I must have been around 10 years old when I started playing shows with my siblings.

All my brothers and sisters have stories about Dad like this. I remember, when my sister was about to beat him in checkers for the first time, he knocked the board over.

Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!