Quotes About Childhood

Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land.

Yes, there have to be places for safe wonderful stories.

Yes, I come from a protective family. I wasn't even allowed to sleep over at a friend's place as a child.

I actually went to circus school as a child. I think my specialty was walking on the big ball. You know the big ball you can walk on? Yes, I was quite good at it.

Yes, I do believe in karma. In my childhood I was a believer.

I performed in public for the first time at three years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was on a big stage. There were probably three or four hundred people in the audience. We were doing this dance, this Kermit the Frog routine, all of us in our little green leotards.

I went to America for the first time with my mum when I was 7, and I loved it. I remember wanting to see the Hollywood sign, and then, there I was, shooting a scene right by it for 'Yesterday.'

To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once was.

Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

Fitness has been a part of all my life since I was a young child. I started dancing ballet and doing yoga when I was three, before stopping ballet at five to start playing soccer and tennis instead. That lasted until my early teens.

You know that Yogi and Huckleberry didn't just belong to the kids. Grownups know all about our animal friends.

My first diet was in the first grade! Tuna fish and mustard with yogurt on the side.

I don't even like sitting in a taxi or on the tube when I've got a nicely ironed shirt on - I can feel the creases starting. I was taught to iron in the children's home I lived in - along with mopping, sweeping, and washing up. If you iron a shirt in order - collar, cuffs, yoke, sleeves and then body - it comes out all neat and gorgeous.

I moved from Kentucky to Miramar, Florida, at about 8. I think I was in second grade. I still had my Southern accent, and down there, you got to experience a melting pot in full fury. All the kids I hung out with were, like, Sicilian kids from Jersey and New York.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

When I was up in New York, the first record my parents bought me was the Terror Squad record with 'Lean Back.'

I don't really know why I started playing as a kid, but I grew up in Queens, New York, not too far from Forest Hills, where they played the U.S. Open in those days. I even got to be a ball boy there. Also, there was a tennis court just a block away from our house, and I'd hang out down there.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

I spent my summers as a kid in an upstate New York hippie town called Saugerties.

When I was seven and we lived in New York, I ran away. I took my dog and started out across the Brooklyn Bridge... I didn't get very far... It's rather difficult to run away in your mother's high heels.

I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.

I've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the Dodgers used to play. They go to all the Dodger games, and they play Little League ball. I have infused them with New York spirit.

I have a special place in my heart for New York City. I spent my early childhood there before moving to Los Angeles.