Quotes About Childhood

I was probably five when I first picked up a camera. My mom had an Olympus OM-10 that she carried around to document our family photos. And I just always loved it.

When I first picked up an instrument, nothing really happened. I played piano when I was a little kid. I hated it so much, I actually don't play piano now.

I was such a bizarre conundrum of everything that makes you worry about a child. I was a bad student. I got picked on a lot. I loved horror movies.

A large part of my childhood was spent holding a cricket bat. The first time I picked one up was in the garden aged about six, and I've never really put the bat down since.

When I was 7, we moved to Manasquan, where I picked up the game of basketball.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

When I was little, I didn't have dreams to be an actress or a star; I wanted to be a mom, have a house and a picket fence.

Football was really my least favorite sport and the last sport that I ended up picking up as a kid. My dad started me off with baseball, which most kids did at that time. I really enjoyed basketball. That was my favorite sport.

I was a very picky eater.

As a kid, I was always picky about food; if it didn't 'look right,' I wouldn't eat it.

When I was 6, my mother put me on a picnic table in front of the whole family and told me to do my James Brown impression. I realized it was a great way of getting attention.

When I was a kid, I got to meet Shawn Michaels at the Continental Airlines Arena, and I showed Shawn that picture.

My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.

As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully.

I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.

There are pictures of me in a Dos Caras mask when I was 3 years old.

I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.

I dig in the sand, and I play with pretty pictures, so I never really left kindergarten.

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

I love that vision-board thing where you cut out pictures that resonate with you so they'll manifest. I've done that since I was three; I cut out pictures of ladies from the JCPenney catalog.

When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.

One of my favorite dishes, absolutely from my childhood, was something my grandmother made, on my mother's side. It was a shepherd's pie, and I really adored that.

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.