Quotes About Childhood

I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.

I don't want to give this impression that I grew up in Liverpool in a cardboard box in abject poverty, but that didn't mean there weren't anxieties in my childhood about money.

To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental... that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use.

Everyone learns how to talk by doing an impression of their parents. I'm one of many people who has a highly developed ability to do that.

Acting is what I dreamed about when I was doing those impressions as a kid. Even if I didn't know it yet.

I started performing non-professionally at birthday parties and family gatherings doing 'Saturday Night Live' impressions at four. Then I started for real at seven.

When I was a child, I did singing and dancing and drama and impressions.

Looking back, when my cousins and I were kids, we'd put together these little skits - these 10-minute improv scenes. I didn't really understand what I was doing - that I was writing these mini-sketches and acting - but we were all totally into it.

Improvising with Mark McKinney, my childhood guru, is a dream.

When I was 6 my dad taught me the blues scale, and I started writing songs and improvising.

I was always called a cry baby, and I was one. I cried a lot as a child. In fact, I still cry a few times a day. I'm still a cry baby.

Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.

That's basically what my parents taught me throughout my childhood, being intense and consistent. In my opinion, those are the hardest things to do in the NBA.

The first show I did was 'The Nutcracker' ballet. I was one of the kids who comes out in the beginning.

Many filmmakers start off with an autobiographical film from childhood, and that's kind of what I was thinking I would do, but other projects would just present themselves naturally in the beginning.

I started to play, like all kids do, not as a goalkeeper. I liked scoring goals; in the end, it's all about scoring goals.

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.

I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration camps.

My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a life of constant fear.

When most kids were hiding their eyes or cowering under the covers, I was three inches away from the television when horror movies were played.

People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.

Being a kid is so much more fun than being an adult. I think that's the crux of it. I think men are just less inclined to grow up because it's much more fun being a child.

I wasn't very academically inclined, growing up as a child, and the only subject I was good at was English. I had a flair for it, since I came from a literary background.

Some of my best memories of growing up on Long Island include spending all day fishing for fluke on Great South Bay.