Quotes About Childhood

My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me a Conora electric guitar. It looked almost like a Gretsch. It cost $59, and my mom still has it.

Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.

Both my parents were atheists, and my grandmother was an atheist in rural Kentucky, and so they were trying to make sure that my brother and I would be atheists, too, and it worked, which doesn't mean that they didn't teach us a lot of wonder of science and of nature and the world and all of that.

I was born in Alton, Ill., and moved to Paducah, Ky., when I was 3 years old. I lived in Kentucky until I moved to Florida in 2015.

I did some really bad plays at a children's theater in Kentucky where I'm from and went from there.

When I was a little kid, it blew my mind and kind of broke my heart when I found out that the 'Dukes of Hazzard' weren't actually from Hazard, Kentucky.

I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?

First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.

As kids, we were used to playing football with anything that we managed to kick and whenever we got a ball, it was a bonus.

Age ain't nothing but a figure. Let's go out there and play some kick the can. It's all in the mind; let's become kids. That's been my philosophy of life anyhow, man.

I started when I was eight years old, I was playing football at a club, before that it was a kick about with friends.

I always thought it was a goat that kicked me over the fence. My mama told me the other day it was a cow. Now I'm sort of scared of both.

I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.

I wouldn't say I was the best kid but I always had a good heart.

You dream of your first NFL start when you're a little kid, playing football in the backyard, but until you get there, you never know what to expect.

I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer.

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

I didn't go to the cinemas a lot as a kid.

I was a sad kid.

Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.

Parents have got to chill out. Let your kid eat dirt - they're gonna be fine!

I admired actors like Dilip Kumar and Om Puri as a kid and acting was all I ever thought about.

I was not a very fearful kid, really.

I had 8-tracks when I was a kid.