Quotes About Childhood

I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.

Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.

I always had a love of music, from the time I was a little kid, dressing up and singing along with Michael Jackson songs.

When I was growing up in L.A. in the late '70s and early '80s, Michael Jackson's was the first face on TV that looked like mine.

I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.

I wanted to be Michael Jackson as a kid.

I would just take dolls around the house - there's old VHS footage from my dad, who was an early adapter and had this RCA camera - and it's me taking a Michael Jackson Barbie doll and putting on a show with that.

I was probably 7 or 8 when I went to see the Bulls play and was able to see Michael Jordan.

I grew up with a big backyard that led to the sand dunes of Lake Michigan.

I was born in California, and I lived on the outskirts of Los Angeles until I was 4. At that point, my family moved to Michigan. Between 4 and 18, I lived in Michigan, and at 18, I moved to New York.

When I was 7, I started playing with a club. The only grass on the field was in the corner. There was no grass in the middle! It was just sand.

Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.

My grandmother really inspires me. I lived with her until halfway through middle school, since both my parents worked a lot.

I grew up in an average middle-class family. I don't think I even knew any friends who were fostered or adopted.

Being a middle-class family back in the 1970s meant we only had one TV... and it wasn't in your room... so when I was 8 years old, I began developing a passion for reading history, and it's never stopped.

My sister Farah and me, we come from a very middle-class family.

I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7.

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.

I was born in Joliet, Illinois. It was totally Midwestern - small, little house, two great parents, and a sister and a beagle.

I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.

'Anderson' is what I've been called since I was a kid; my mom is about the only person who calls me 'Mike.'

When I'm a little kid watching Chicago Bears games, hot salsa would be on the table and the first time I was like, 'Ah, this is hot Dad, get mild salsa,' and he was like: 'Not in my house. We have real salsa. And if you can't handle real salsa then you can just eat dry chips.'

I've been interested in China ever since I was a kid. When I was a kid, I grew up in San Francisco about a mile from China Beach.