Quotes About Childhood

I had an idyllic childhood with the freedom to go and play.

We were brought up in a very happy family and I can't whinge about my childhood because it was idyllic.

Growing up on a farm in the '70s and '80s was just idyllic, you know, but I look at the difference in the way that my kids have grown up and how I've really done so much and dedicated my life and my heart and soul to making their life as easy as possible, because we always want our children to have it better than we had it.

The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where 'As You Like It' is set. It was idyllic.

I grew up in a little town between Bath and Bristol with my parents and grandparents in the same house. It was rural and idyllic.

I would love to just watch episodes of 'Horsin' Around' if I could.

I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'

When I was in third grade, I would run home - literally run home from school - and if I could make it in time, I could get home and the put the TV on in time to catch the answering machine message at the start of 'The Rockford Files.'

I wasn't allowed to watch it as a little kid but I went with some friends who were some big independent wrestling fans and I saw it, I fell in love with it. Very quickly, I asked if I could help set up the ring, set up chairs, just be around it.

I grew up with two brothers with whom I played a rough game of football. If I could take that, I could take anything.

There was so much racism when I was a kid, but it was also ignorant.

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

I grew up in Illinois.

I was a big 'MAD Magazine' fan when I was a kid, and I read a lot of horror comics - I illustrated as well.

I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

When I fish, there are a lot of images that come to my mind of when I was a child. I did not have things I have now, so to go fishing now is completely different. I am very grateful for all that I have acquired in life.

I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a fraction as hard as she's made me bellyache.

I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

I used to have imaginary friends.

I grew up a single kid and so my whole childhood was spent in my backyard dealing with imaginary circumstances and role playing and stuff.

I had this imaginary world where fairies were my friends. If you told six-year-old Juno that she'd one day play a Disney fairy, she'd totally freak out.

I grew up with interesting and funny people. We made our own fun. You had to use your imagination.