Quotes About Childhood

I was born in Cambridgeshire and moved to Scotland when I was seven.

When it comes to '90s R&B, I grew up on a lot of Aaliyah and Destiny's Child, Missy Elliott, Usher, Jill Scott. Whatever my mom was playing in the house is what I was listening to.

I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.

I was a Brownie Scout mother.

I used to love scrambled eggs when I was a little boy.

As a child, I would go days without speaking, and then suddenly I would scream until everyone was looking at me.

I think I probably had to have been two or three when I fell in love with anything that bounced - any kind of ball that bounced, I was running and screaming after it.

It all started when I was 11 months old, singing a song by Jodeci in the back seat of the car. My mother turned around and said, 'Who is that?' When she saw it was me, she said, 'I think we have a singer on our hands.'

I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

When I was a kid growing up, you maybe secretly wanted to be an actor, but you never said.

When I was a kid, there used to be a family section in every club where it would be all kids. That stopped.

You know I've watched the All-Star game as a little boy... and to have the opportunity now to play in it is so overwhelming.

I always say I owe my sense of humor to 'The Muppets' because I didn't necessarily know what was going on when I watched 'The Muppet Show,' and obviously, 'Sesame Street' was made just for me.

To my mum, I owe security in a very insecure young life. We lived in about 10 different places because of my father's chequered career, and she always made me feel a sense of consistency and security. I was a well-mothered boy.

I feel that I owe a lot to SpongeBob and all Bikini Bottom for helping me figure out what I thought was funny and entertaining.

When I was 9, we moved to Osseo, Wis., where we owned a couple of hundred acres. My father was well respected in town.

When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.

I now have 10-year-olds asking me about how to become successful, how to become a business owner, which is crazy - at 10 I was trying to figure out which Barbie I wanted.

The importance of inclusive behavior was modeled for me early in life. I have many childhood memories of my mother - an entrepreneur and business owner - drawing people to herself and inspiring them with the genuineness of her interest in them.

I've always been a dog owner, from the time I was a little boy in Chicago.

There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.

My education started with Latin taught at home by a governess, I can't imagine why, and for some reason I attended the Infants Department of the Oxford High School for Girls before moving to the Dragon School at the dangerous age of 8 or so.

I never fully got to experience my childhood. I've spent a lot of time having to sort of grow myself up in many ways and also to sort of slow myself down and allow myself to live at the pace that I am.

I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid.