All Quotes

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.
‐‐ Mira Sorvino

When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.
‐‐ Taj Mahal

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'
‐‐ LeBron James

When I was 5 years old, hanging out with my friends who were all older than me, like 8 or 9, I was joking around like, 'Yeah, when I'm 20 that's a perfect age to go pro.' That's what I had in my head. Then I turn pro at 13. It's all been a mystery and its all been awesome.
‐‐ Ryan Sheckler

When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it.
‐‐ Loleatta Holloway

When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.
‐‐ Larry King

When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.
‐‐ Troian Bellisario

When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.
‐‐ Pat Conroy

When I was 5 years old, we had nothing in the village. One day, in front of my house, some soldiers in a big Cadillac started to do a picnic. I looked at them like they were coming from the moon. I remember they gave me a box of rice pudding - that, for me, was the American Dream.
‐‐ Renzo Rosso

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
‐‐ Edmund Hillary

When I was 6, a family friend gave me E.L. Konigsburg's 'A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver' and launched me on a full-blown Eleanor obsession. I wanted to ride off on Crusade, to launch a thousand troubadour songs, to marry a king - and then jilt him and marry another.
‐‐ Lauren Willig

When I was 6, I saw a commercial that Jessica Simpson was in, and that was the first time I felt my little heart flutter.
‐‐ Ryan Lee

When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.
‐‐ Aaron Carter

When I was 7, an old lady was driving too fast in my neighborhood and hit me with her car. I was running out of the house, and when I got halfway into the street, my mom saw the car and yelled for me to run back. As I turned around the car hit me, dragged me five houses down the road, and I fractured my collarbone.
‐‐ Rutina Wesley

When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler

When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.
‐‐ Sara Blakely

When I was 7, I started playing with a club. The only grass on the field was in the corner. There was no grass in the middle! It was just sand.
‐‐ Ronaldinho

When I was 7, I went to school in Switzerland because everyone on my mom's side of the family lives there. Then we were back in Australia, in Queensland. That's where we had the chance to have lots of different animals. I spent a lot of time living in nature and building cubby houses in big old trees by the ocean.
‐‐ Isabel Lucas

When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.
‐‐ James Altucher

When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.
‐‐ Natalie Portman

When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.
‐‐ John Travolta

When I was 8, I thought I was Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Elvis, and Chuck Norris all at once.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.
‐‐ Stephenie Meyer

When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles.
‐‐ Kodi Smit-McPhee

When I was 8, my favorite toy was a stapler. My brother was afraid of me.
‐‐ Emily Procter

When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
‐‐ Aaron Patzer

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.
‐‐ Jet Li

When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

When I was 8 years old, I saw 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

When I was 8 years old, I sold garden seeds.
‐‐ Jim Pattison

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

When I was 8 years old, my brother was making the noises of the animals I was eating, so I decided to go vegetarian. Then I would give up because I was 8.
‐‐ Alicia Silverstone

When I was 9, I asked my mom if I could be on TV. She was like, 'Well, okay. You can try.'
‐‐ Liana Liberato

When I was 9, I auditioned for an arts school in Toronto with a few of my friends. The sole reason we auditioned was that we found out you got to miss a couple days of school to do the audition. Without actually wanting to go to arts school, I accidentally got in. My parents encouraged me to try it, and I ended falling in love with performing.
‐‐ Jake Epstein

When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.
‐‐ Leslie Mann

When I was 9 or 10, I had a ten-cent business: I would walk your dog for a dime, go to the store for a dime, empty your garbage for a dime - and then I could use the money to buy tricks at the magic store.
‐‐ Lily Tomlin

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.
‐‐ Tom Felton

When I was 9, we moved to Osseo, Wis., where we owned a couple of hundred acres. My father was well respected in town.
‐‐ Diane Hendricks

When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song.
‐‐ Ricky Martin

When I was a 21-year-old intern at CBS, I was told I had crossed eyes and shouldn't try to be on air. That's when I decided I was going to be behind the scenes.
‐‐ Andy Cohen

When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way - a buck here, a buck there.
‐‐ Harold Prince

When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'
‐‐ Samantha Barks

When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
‐‐ Naomi Wolf

When I was a baby, I wore my mom's Chanel pumps - to be able to say that I work with Karl Lagerfeld is a dream come true.
‐‐ Lily-Rose Depp

When I was a baby, my mom used to have a dance school, and she used to teach classes there. We didn't have money for a babysitter, so she always brought me with her to the dancing school. Back then, I was already watching and listening to Michael Jackson for a long time.
‐‐ Afrojack

When I was a baby, my mom was always bringing me onto set.
‐‐ Gia Coppola

When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything.
‐‐ Scott Baio