Quotes About Childhood

As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.

I started singing in a choir when I was 4 years old.

I used to sing in a choir when I was young. My mom forced me hardbody. I was hella young, like 5 years old.

I was a choir boy my whole life.

Like a lot of artists, I started out as a singer in my church choir when I was a child.

My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.

I used to do semi-classical dance as a child; I did not have a choreographer, but my mother gave me a cassette to learn from.

I've been in the Los Angeles Children's Chorus since I was 8.

I was six when I started working in theater. I chose to be an adult before I should be.

With a complicated childhood, you can either focus on the positive or the negative, and I chose to focus on the positive.

When one is a child, one has little say in the matter: one's parents decide. Mine chose Cotchford, and they chose the various schools I was sent to as I grew up.

When I was growing up with Chris, I was the little brother that was kind of annoying: 'Can I come?' 'Get out of here.' 'Can I play?' 'Get out of here.' So that's our relationship. I just do my own thing. I leave him alone.

When I was a kid and Christmas was coming up, my dad would ask me what I wanted, and I always said a motorbike. I kept asking for one, and he said it was too dangerous and bought me a go-kart instead.

I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23.

My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.

I grew up in Beijing and Beijing roast duck is my favorite. My mom makes it every year for Christmas Eve. How crispy the skin is is how good a duck restaurant is.

I was a little chubby, rosy-cheeked kid.

I was a chubby kid.

Laughter was a part of the church services I attended as a child.

Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.

The only acting I knew when I was a boy came from Lochgelly. With a double bill, people would live their lives in the cinema. You would even see babies being breastfed in the audience.

My mother raised us out of the limelight and told us not to say we were Bruce Lee's children, so I had a normal childhood. I didn't run in Hollywood circles or go to premieres.

At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.