Quotes About Childhood

The funny thing is, I was not a fan of horror when I was a kid. I was scared to watch scary movies. And then along came 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,' and 'Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy.' And I like those films because they made scary funny, and it was kind of ironic that I ended up doing the 'Hotel' movies.

When you're a kid, you imagine acting to be singing and fighting and like the movies. Then you become an actor and get the reality, which is often a lot more mundane. But sometimes it's really nice to run around with guns saving the world.

I always wanted to be a Muppet. So when 'Sesame Street' approached me to guest star, I thought: 'I'm going to be on this!' It's pretty incredible stuff.

I remember watching Eddie Murphy's stand-up act when I was little, and just being mesmerized.

In the '70s, as a kid, someone took me to a Tournee of Animation festival at the L.A. County Museum of Art.

I definitely think my work comes from things that I liked as a kid, and things I still like now. Monsters and magic and museums and movies, a lot of things that start with 'M' for some reason.

I'm a SoHo born-and-raised kid. So my parents dragged me to lots of museums, and for birthdays and any kind of celebration, we'd go to the theater.

Well, I was a real late-comer to listen to music, actually, because my parents - first of all, my parents weren't big music fans. They didn't listen to music. We didn't really listen to stuff in the house.

I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear.

I started in musical theater as a little girl in Houston.

I started dancing at age three and then got involved in musical theatre and acting around age seven. I think I've probably known since then that I want to be a professional actor.

It's been in my musical DNA since I was a little kid. I think musical theatre has really influenced everything I've done.

I grew up in Los Angeles, and my first musical theatre experiences were at the Music Center in downtown L.A.

I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre.

I grew up doing musicals in my childhood at school, along with all the plays I used to be involved in.

I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.

We didn't go to Broadway musicals when I was growing up; it was too expensive.

When I was a kid, I grew up watching musicals.

I've always loved singing, and wanted to do musicals. Watching them as a child was what convinced me that I wanted to be a professional.

I was always funny, but I wasn't a great musician, and I wanted to be a musician way more than I wanted to be a comic. I just didn't think comedians were cool when I was a kid.

As a kid, I wanted to be a musician but also aspired to be Andy Griffith's lawyer character, Ben Matlock.

I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it.

They told me I gave the best milk mustache of anybody.

I grew up in Zurich until I was 12, and I've always come to Vorderer Sternen for a sausage, a hunk of bread, and some mustard.