Quotes About Childhood

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

I grew up in New Jersey and played sports and rode my bike around. It was a really nice time - kids didn't have cellphones then - and you knew everyone in the town.

I still have the Triumph Palm Beach I was given for Christmas when I was 11. By today's standards, it is heavy and slow, but was my pride and joy at the time.

Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth.

I do love nature, but I don't suppose I'd spent more time in zoos as a child than anyone else!

As a kid, I was definitely a DC guy. I started reading big time in the '80s at the height of the Wolfman/Perez 'New Teen Titans.' That was definitely the book that hooked me.

I do get to have my normal childhood. I just love to get together with my friends and family and have a good time.

I've loved Leia and Han since I was seven years old. Getting a chance to tell some of their adventures? Mind-blowing on every level. I wish I could go back in time and high-five my baby self.

I was a filmy kid. I was two when I faced the camera for the first time. My parents realised it pretty early, and I'm really thankful to them for their support and help.

I'm not a big pet fan. I remember the school used to have a hamster, and you used to take it home for a week at a time. I did that. I probably got bored of it within a day.

When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.

I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.

My mother always cultivated my imagination from the time I was very little.

Both of my parents have been actors there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.

My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like I don't remember them ever being together.

We were just a gaggle of kids, and everybody played together and had a good time. You know how kids can be completely horrible; abusive but fun. But anyway, it was a nice childhood.

I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.

I saw Brahms's Hungarian Rhapsody on television when I was two. Tom and Jerry were playing it together. I thought, 'Hey, if a cat can play like that, why can't I?'

Making films is like making stuff together as kids.

I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub together. I wasn't obese, just chunky.

When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening.

I'm very close to my parents and we built a sailboat together when I was growing up. We're partners.

I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.