Quotes About Childhood

I had a cat called Pushkin when I was growing up.

As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone, over and over and over again.

My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.

I did have a dog for a few years when I was little, but then just really had cats until I was about 21.

There were many times when I could have gone down the path of being a child star, which I know can be bad; I think, especially in L.A., it's easy to get caught up in that life.

They used a doll when I fall through the ceiling.

I really miss how we used to celebrate Diwali when I was a kid.

The best memories are the ones where I celebrated Deepavali as a kid.

When I was four, we went to Oahu. It was the first time we celebrated Passover away from home.

I lost my biological father at nine, but up until then, we celebrated Christmas and Easter too.

We were wised up early to not celebrating our birthdays and that there was no Santa Claus and no magic.

I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up.

I don't feel like so many other celebrities' kids, who hate their parents for abandoning them.

Even when I was young, I would build things with Lego or make 'robots' out of cereal boxes - long before I learned metalwork. The desire to build was always there.

As a kid, I always had my nose buried in the side of a cereal box.

Since I was really small, my mum says I wouldn't talk at breakfast because I would just read the back of the cereal packet.

I'm a cereal girl. I have always loved my cereal ever since I was a kid.

I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.

I've been in so many crazy experiences in my life. I was always moving when I was a kid. When I look back, it's hard for me not to feel that certain things just happen for a reason.

The chances of a child coming through as I did... the world is too hard. On the other hand, I would always encourage children of mine if they wanted to be in school plays and dance and sing. But I wouldn't put them to work.

As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to do. So I used my imagination all of the time growing up. That's the main way I played. When we moved and I went to high school, I did my first play, and I was completely addicted to theatre. It felt like home; it felt natural.

When I was little, there were three channels.

I've always been the one who is more enthusiastic about Christmas than my family. I regress to a child state, chanting carols.

When I was making the 'Kid' my salary was $75 a week. Chaplin gave me a $5,000 bonus at the end of the picture.