As a kid, I felt really weird.
‐‐ Mayim Bialik
As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.
‐‐ Cara Delevingne
As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.
‐‐ Mr. T
As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.
‐‐ Julie Burchill
As a kid, I grew up on a farm in Florida, and I did what most little kids do. I played a little baseball, did a few other things like that, but I always had the sense of being an outsider, and it wasn't until I saw pictures in the magazines that a couple other guys skate, I thought, 'Wow, that's for me,' you know?
‐‐ Rodney Mullen
As a kid, I had a background in theater.
‐‐ Charlie Kaufman
As a kid, I had a Beatles poster and a Bela Lugosi as Dracula poster, so both worlds always appealed to me. Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music has to be aggressive. You can't tiptoe around. It has to be incredibly focused dramatically - no time for second thoughts.
‐‐ Christopher Young
As a kid I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.
‐‐ Judd Nelson
As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.
‐‐ Penelope Cruz
As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
‐‐ Oscar Hijuelos
As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson
As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.
‐‐ Mike Trout
As a kid, I had to be funny.
‐‐ Jamie Farr
As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'
‐‐ Jeremy Stoppelman
As a kid I just felt like an outsider.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson
As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try to figure how I could get hired to do what Mel Blanc and Daws Butler did. Create all of these great voices for animated characters.
‐‐ Jim Cummings
As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
‐‐ Daniel Craig
As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool.
‐‐ Matt Smith
As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she went on to become a surgeon.
‐‐ Aimee Bender
As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest.
‐‐ Corey Feldman
As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.
‐‐ Karen Abbott
As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.
‐‐ Kathryn Schulz
As a kid, I loved any fantasy.
‐‐ Chris Hemsworth
As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had pets.
‐‐ Bonnie Bassler
As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.
‐‐ Nathan Lane
As a kid, I loved going to lots of thrift stores with my parents. There was a period where I thought it was embarrassing, and then I started to get older - I realized they were really cool.
‐‐ Tessa Thompson
As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.
‐‐ Sachin Tendulkar
As a kid, I loved leading 'dance camp' in my garage for the neighborhood kids. I would choreograph really intricate routines for us to perform. It was so much fun!
‐‐ Daniella Monet
As a kid, I loved Paula Poundstone and Richard Pryor. But my mother was a huge influence on my comedy.
‐‐ Tig Notaro
As a kid, I loved the whimsical Superman and Batman stuff, and as a teenager, Marvel was more angsty, and that appealed to me. Marvel dealt with more stuff I could relate to as a teenager.
‐‐ Jim Lee
As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.
‐‐ Tiger Woods
As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.
‐‐ Rebel Wilson
As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.
‐‐ Aimee Bender
As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.
‐‐ Julius Erving
As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.
‐‐ Barry Sanders
As a kid, I pretty much got nothing but scorn, and occasionally active animus, for writing fantasy and squirreling it away in my closet and, later, under the mattress supports in my bed.
‐‐ Sherwood Smith
As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.
‐‐ Peter Wright
As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen
As a kid, I read 'Peter Pan,' and I really wanted to be him.
‐‐ Heather Graham
As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.
‐‐ Romola Garai
As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.
‐‐ Cristela Alonzo
As a kid, I really wasn't thinkin' about no golf.
‐‐ Boo Weekley
As a kid, I remember crying and then noticing myself in the mirror and being fascinated by how that looked.
‐‐ Nina Hoss
As a kid, I remember John Daly bombing it around St. Andrews in 1995 to win the British Open, and people say we are similar in a lot of ways.
‐‐ Dustin Johnson
As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on.
‐‐ Jonathan Ive
As a kid, I remember wearing a checkered suit and appearing on-stage in the routines worked out by the 'baggy pants' comedians.
‐‐ Seymour Cassel
As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.'
‐‐ Cliff Burton
As a kid, I sat transfixed watching Ray Harryhausen's '7th Voyage of Sinbad.'
‐‐ Raymond E. Feist
As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.
‐‐ James Packer