Quotes About Childhood

So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.

I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I'm not a gun advocate, but that's the way I grew up.

I started hunting at 5 years old.

I am not in any hurry to grow up.

Now I tell my mom, I go, 'Mom, you know when I was a kid and you told me to turn off the television and go outside and play?' I'd be like, 'You literally were hurting my career when you did that. You literally stopped me from doing now, what I do for a living.'

Sometimes if I feel the songs are too much, it hurts, but then I open my eyes: people are singing along or crying, and the 7-year-old in me is like, 'Yeahhh.'

At 8, I got my first cassette, which was Def Leppard's 'Hysteria.'

Growing up in Finland, ice hockey was the main sport. But I never played that. I went with footy. I never had any other hobbies.

I'd never gone as a kid to an ice rink. There was always that fear that I'd break my leg and it would affect my career.

Growing up in the '90s, I just loved 'Ice Ice Baby.' I knew, and still know, every single word to that song.

I used to sell candy and ice creams in the street, and I worked in the fields to help my parents.

Oh, my dad listens to a lot of 2Pac, Ice Cube and WC. That's what he was listening to a lot when we were growing up. He's always been a fan of hip-hop.

No one wants to be 13 and not able to eat their ice cream after dinner.

I love Celia Cruz - she was also a huge part of my childhood. She's an iconic woman.

I was born and raised in Pocatello, Idaho.

We didn't even have a T.V. in my house until I was 13. My dad called it the 'idiot box.'

I was never plunked in front of an idiot box because my parents had other things to do.

I don't think people realize how much I love basketball. A lot of people think because of this idiotic comment I made that I love baseball and don't like basketball. Baseball came first because if you grew up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, that was the No. 1 thing. But if you have more than one kid, you love them both.

My mom said I was not going to be an idle child, so I had things to do every day after school.

I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.

As a kid, Punky Brewster was my idol. I wanted to dress like her and talk like her.

My favorite growing up was Bret Hart. I just idolized him when I was a child; he was my hero.

Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.

Like all children, I spent a lot of time looking for idols.