Quotes About Childhood

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

When I was 12 I was obsessed with green and had my mom get me a bunch of green bedding for my room.

I was obsessed with 'Ghostbusters.'

I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little.

As a kid I was obsessed with monster movies.

Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.

I guess I see a part of myself in everyone I write about. I tend to write about kids who are obsessed with something, and even though I have never been good with machines the way Hugo is, I did love miniature things when I was a kid.

I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.

When I was a child, I was always nicking my mum's jewellery to wear, and I loved to drape a massive Chinese shawl around me from our fancy-dress box. I was obsessed with a feather and rabbit-fur collar from the age of three and attempted to make one with my friend, whose father was a gamekeeper.

I'm sort of obsessed with Harlem. Just its history. My father did the music for a play called 'The Huey P. Newton Story,' and they did a lot of work in Harlem. So as a little girl, I spent a lot of time in Harlem Library.

I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.

When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.'

As a little kid, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson.

I've had a lifelong passion, and really obsession, with professional wrestling since I was a very small kid.

Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood.

I was an obsessive fantasy reader from the time I could read at all.

When I ask my parents, it's incredibly obvious I was going to have a creative career at an early age. I've been forever telling stories since I was very young.

I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious.

I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.

One of my favourite games as a child was to dress up and improvise. Acting seemed obvious.

I think I heard about 'The Giver' being made from when I was 11 or 12 years old. When I got the audition for this movie, I already knew that Meryl Streep was attached to it, and Jeff Bridges, obviously.

So much were we together that Nanny became almost a part of me. Consequently, it was my occasional encounters with my parents that stand out as the events of the day.

Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults.

The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism.