Quotes About Childhood

I didn't have cable growing up. The only games I saw were the NBA on Sundays and the NBA Finals.

I've been doing this since I was a kid. I'm always going to play the game with a smile on my face, blowing bubbles, sunflower seeds, whatever it is. That's just who I am.

I had always sung in choirs. Even when it was something to be laughed at or made fun of, you know, in school. And I was always the kid who was picked at the Christmas concert to sing the solo, you know, while the other kids snickered in the front few rows.

As a child actor, I had sung a song in the Bengali film 'Bhagyadebata' but it wasn't kept in the final edit.

Seeing 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' was an extraordinary experience because it made me realise that all the biblical stories and images I'd ignored as a child had sunk in by osmosis. I saw that my childhood was deeply rooted inside me.

My father would play Stevie Wonder in the car, but that never sunk in.

My earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical.

When I was four, we moved to a farm outside Springfield, Missouri. We had a radio show from that farmhouse. My dad always wanted a farm. We used to go out and milk the cows every morning and then do a radio show with a remote control from our living room. We'd start by singing 'Keep On The Sunny Side.'

You know when you're a child and your imagination is limitless and you really believe in magic? I thought I had super powers.

I was a shy kid but also very mischievous. Because I looked super innocent, no one could really call me out on my pranks.

I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.

I think I had 'Super Mario' and 'Tetris' around, and that's it.

When I was a kid, I played 'Super Mario Bros' and 'Megaman 2' and '3' for hours and hours, trying to convince my mother they were good for me because they helped my hand-eye coordination. They influenced a whole generation of people to make computers what they are now, through problem-solving and so on.

I grew up playing the Super Nintendo.

I think the last game console I had was Super Nintendo. I remember once I played the Sega Genesis. But Super Nintendo was my last game device. I played outside more. I liked kickball and baseball.

I've always been a huge, huge gamer in general, and I definitely grew up with all Nintendo products, and the Super Mario franchise has been a franchise that has shaped culture.

When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.

My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.

When I was a kid, I was super shy.

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

As a kid, I was super skinny.

I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.

I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.

When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I was a little kid, I have been really into royals and aristocracy. So to make Lord more feminine, I just put an 'e' on the end! Some people think it's religious, but it's not.