Quotes About Childhood

When I was young, I believe I met Nicolas Cage. I think I was probably eight, and I remember seeing him at somebody's house - it was an event, and he happened to be there.

I grew up in Davenport, Iowa, but I moved to Santa Clarita, California, when I was 6.

Ever since I was a little girl, I watched many movies, and a lot of them are in California. So I already felt the United States was my home. It wasn't a difficult choice to move here.

My first memories of life were Californian.

When I was a kid, we didn't really leave Cambridge, which was the town where I grew up in.

When I was little, I didn't know you got paid for acting. My parents put the money in the bank for me, but I just thought it was this fun thing that I was so excited to do. You got to be on the set and get a little bit of makeup and be on camera.

My dream when I was at Barca was to play at Camp Nou and I did - just not wearing the shirt I'd expected when I was little.

I was a really camp child! In the 70s, an age of all these amazing musical subcultures, I was sitting in my living room singing to my dad's Streisand records.

We were basically camping my whole childhood because we were so poor.

I talk all the time about the eight-year-old me and all the eight-year-olds who are living in their camps.

I have so many special memories from the camps I went to when I was growing up.

I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.

It was a lot of fun to grow up in Canada.

When I was a kid, I didn't know Canadians could be actors. I thought just Americans could get acting jobs.

There used to be a candy called 'Bonkers,' which I believe to be the greatest candy of all time.

I grew up on Cape Cod. We didn't live right on the water, but I could walk to it and did every day.

When I was kid I always wanted to be either the captain of the England cricket team or I wanted to be a river bailiff.

When I was a kid at Middlesbrough, we had the best captain ever in Gareth Southgate who was absolutely brilliant.

I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when I'm by myself, or like when I was a little kid.

My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to shearing shed. My mother always wanted us to be educated, so I went to a school.

I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old.

My first playpen was a cardboard box.

I got my first baseball cards as a four-year-old, the 1989 Topps set. I got every Topps set after that.

If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.