Quotes About Childhood

As for my favorite games growing up, if I were to mention a game other than 'Gradius', it would have to be 'Xevious'.

My mother says I was two and a half when I first mentioned I wanted to be an actor. My father said, 'The word is pronounced 'Doctor!'

A lot of my stand-up early on was stories from my childhood. And my childhood is over - there's not new childhood stories to come. They've all been mentioned.

Deadpool was introduced as a mercenary and a bounty hunter... because I was so crazy for Boba Fett when I was a kid.

Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.

People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in my childhood. 'The Little Mermaid' was the first movie I remember seeing. 'Beauty And The Beast,' 'Aladdin,' those are three I remember right off the bat.

I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.

I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had left, and it was all a mess. So I lived in my head a lot, and I would get lots of books for Christmas - from librarians and teachers - and they just fed my imagination.

I had lots of fun; I was in the boy scouts, I went camping. I just used to mess around like a normal kid.

It was always quite negative messages on love I was given as a kid.

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

I met my best friend in a sandbox when I was three, and he would grow up to be gay and loved to dress in my clothing any chance he got.

All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.

My mother's early life revolved around the Methodist faith.

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

I grew up in Mexico until I was 16, and then we moved to San Antonio because my dad's business was headquartered there.

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

When I was eight, I started what could be considered my first business, performing magic shows in Mexico City.

I'm from Miami, you know, when you're a child, you always want to play in front of your hometown.

I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Canada. I left when I was three. My parents went to Miami, and that's where I grew up.

Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.

You know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him.

When I was 4 years old, I thought that I wanted to be a dancer like Michael Jackson.

When I was a baby, my mom used to have a dance school, and she used to teach classes there. We didn't have money for a babysitter, so she always brought me with her to the dancing school. Back then, I was already watching and listening to Michael Jackson for a long time.