Quotes About Childhood

I remember feeling guilty that I had a good childhood. I thought everybody who is famous has to have a desperate childhood and work his way out of it, but I had a great one.

I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood.

My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my dad was on it.

Wiffle ball was my first experience hitting left-handed.

I first started out by hitting a ball against a wall when I was four.

I grew up actually reading 'The Hobbit,' not 'The Lord of the Rings.' I loved 'The Hobbit' growing up.

I've been playing hockey since I was five years old. It's a part of my life.

I've been playing hockey since I was two-and-a-half, three years old.

Obviously as a kid you collect hockey cards.

Where I grew up, hockey was the sport that 90 per cent of black kids at school played.

When I was little, I thought that everyone wanted to hold me as a baby because I was this thing of fascination. But rather than this thing that wasn't quite right, I just felt that my difference was something that was probably very exotic.

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

I spent so long and so much of my childhood holding myself back for fear of what people would think. I'm trying my best every day to throw that away.

There are pictures of me holding a basketball before I could even walk or talk. I feel like it's something that I've been manifesting since I was a child. It's a dream come true.

I think my first musical memory is actually listening to Billie Holiday. I think I must have been, like, 3 or 4 years old.

My mum was working in London, so I went to school there until I was 12. But every holiday would be in Scotland, and when I went to boarding school, I'd either be there or Scotland.

I've known Guadeloupe for a long time because I used to go there on holiday when I was a child.

My earliest memory is going to live with my grandmother when I was four. My mum told me she was going on holiday, but I didn't see her for three months.

I've been going to Bamburgh for holidays since I was a child.

Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

When I was a kid, all our seaside holidays were spent on Canvey Island or in Clacton-on-Sea.

Our family didn't have a lot of money, so my brother, parents and I spent our holidays at Southend-on-Sea.

My father is Moroccan and I have fond childhood memories of holidays there.

Christmas has always been very special to all of us and we used to look forward to the Christmas holidays. Those were very beautiful days in my childhood.