Quotes About Childhood

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and so surreal.

I couldn't be a responsible enough parent if my kid was born with a new suit and a full-time job.

Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old

When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it.

When you're three, you're into custard, and jumping.

We used to sleep five to a bed and three of them used to wet the bed. I learnt to swim before I could walk.

I feel things can always be funny, but that's probably because I have some kind of leftover childhood need to make people laugh. For somebody like me, that's the thing you excel at.

My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

Dad, one of my first memories is of sharing my worry with you about the space shuttle poking holes in the atmosphere and letting out all of Earth's air.

I don't know if I was a funny kid. I would say I was a loud and weird kid.

I grew up in a funny way.

I guess we were kinda poor when we were kids, but we didn't know it. That's because my dad always refused to let us look at the family's financial records.

When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.

I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny.

Organic? I grew up on Angel Delight. We didn't have anything in the house if it wasn't neon!

When you say 'Bedtime, bedtime, bedtime!' that's not what the child hears. What the child hears is 'Lie down in the dark... for hours... and don't move... I'm locking the door now.'

My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.

Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.

When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices to make it more entertaining.

The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.