Quotes About Childhood

I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.

I love the game of basketball. I guess it started with 'Space Jam.' Right after that movie, I went out there to my little Flight hoop and tried to do every dunk in the movie.

I was watching 'Space Jam' when I was a kid but that was pretty much the only thing I knew about the NBA.

I grew up until I was seven in Jamaica with my grandmother, who I still think of as the greatest person I have known in my life.

My dad is a great cricket fan, and I used to play a bit back in Jamaica.

I love James Brown, and as a baby, I was always dancing to James Brown.

My mom was a big fan of Al Green... James Brown we weren't allowed to listen to, so of course I knew James Brown.

The first record I heard as a kid? My dad is a great soul and blues fan, so he showed me James Brown. That was my first stuff, and I loved it.

I have three brothers; we've been playing James Bond forever.

James Bond was an early favourite, although I didn't understand much of it. I read the Bible a lot, too. You might say that this was my favourite, since I seemed to read it so often.

A role I grew up with and always loved was James Bond. I'd even say, in some ways, that he served as a creative role model for me as a kid in terms of roles I would want to play. I watched all of the movies growing up with my dad, so to be Bond himself would, without a doubt, be my dream role.

'Jane Eyre' was one of those films that I was familiar with as a kid, and I always enjoyed the story.

I grew up being that kid backstage doing my math homework and my father made sure I knew from everybody in the cast to the lighting people and to respect everyone in the theater and all the way down to the janitor. It's a part of my childhood. It's what I know really.

I was born at home in rural Japan.

As a kid living in an isolated desert town, the most diversity I saw in my media was Claudia Kishi, the Japanese American girl from 'The Baby-Sitters Club.'

When I was very young, even before I went to what you call elementary school, I used to read and watch Japanese comic books and anime all the time. These were the seeds of my future.

At an early age, it was always trying to root for the Sooners. When Jason White won, it was awesome running around my living room like I won it. I've always had fun watching the Heisman ceremony.

I probably saw 'Jaws' when I was 10.

I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.

My family went Intellivision instead of Atari. I would go over to my friends' houses to play their Ataris and was so jealous of that. I don't remember them ever being jealous that I had the Intellivision.

I used to get really jealous of Ron Howard as Opie on 'The Andy Griffith Show' - we were the same age. I would just think, 'God, that little kid can work, and I can't!'

I'm so jealous of my friends who came from these super musical households where they were learning piano at three years old. My parents didn't really play loads of music around the house. We had the radio, but they weren't teaching me about music.

I grew up watching 'Taker, and he used to scare me as a kid, so I think it would only add to the excitement to be in a casket match with a guy like that. There's definitely some jealousy.

'Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On' was my anthem as a child. It was about me. I was Baby.