When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people.
‐‐ Autumn Reeser
When I was little, I was actually really shy. I really enjoyed doing school plays, but I found the whole thing terrifying. I cried myself to sleep once because I thought my teacher was going to give me the lead role. I never imagined acting was a viable career.
‐‐ Emily Berrington
When I was little I was always getting hit. Kids would take my hat and throw it around, and it upset me. So I got to be very revengeful.
‐‐ Freddie Prinze
When I was little, I was such a tomboy - I loved a baggy T-shirt and leggings.
‐‐ Alice Dellal
When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty, I became very shy and self-conscious. I still get nervous sometimes before shooting and definitely before big auditions.
‐‐ Brianna Brown
When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
‐‐ Dan O'Brien
When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.
‐‐ Natalie Coughlin
When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her falling out in the middle of the floor and they had to cover her with a white sheet. Every time we went to church it was scary. The music would start playing, and then everybody would start running and shouting and hollering and screaming.
‐‐ Sherri Shepherd
When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.
‐‐ Clara Mamet
When I was little, I went to the Sahara desert and met an older woman with beautiful earrings that came all the way down to her stomach. She told me, 'For us Tuareg, jewelry is not meant for decoration. It absorbs negative energy that comes your way.' So think twice when you buy a vintage ring!
‐‐ Sofia Boutella
When I was little, I would always try and look into the television screen along the sides. I kept thinking if you looked in there, you could see what was happening off camera.
‐‐ Andrea Riseborough
When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.
‐‐ Jan Brett
When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
‐‐ Saffron Burrows
When I was little kid, I used to want to be a rock star.
‐‐ Tommy Wiseau
When I was little, like 7 to 15, there was nothing I wanted to do but go to church and go to school.
‐‐ Mary J. Blige
When I was little, my dad used to call me 'Bandarella,' because I was a mess - a Bandar is a monkey in Hindi. I was not a girly-girl and would always break something and would be running around and didn't really fit in.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra
When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk
When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
‐‐ Karin Slaughter
When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'
‐‐ Tori Amos
When I was little, my mom was an actress, and she still is now, and she'd go on commercial auditions, and if they needed a mom and a son, she'd take me along, and that's how I got started.
‐‐ Luke Benward
When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!
‐‐ Hattie McDaniel
When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career.
‐‐ Amy Chua
When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!
‐‐ Ian Beattie
When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
‐‐ Bat for Lashes
When I was little, people would ask what my favorite color was, and I never knew. I find it's really hard to make decisive 'best' answers on what the 'best' of something is.
‐‐ Chelsea Peretti
When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.
‐‐ Marion Cotillard
When I was little, there were three channels.
‐‐ Rodney Carrington
When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
‐‐ Danica McKellar
When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.
‐‐ Bonnie Jo Campbell
When I was little, we moved around a lot, actually. In second grade, I think I went to three different schools. We were in Nevada and Oregon and as well as a few different places in Nebraska. I did go to high school in the same town.
‐‐ Emily Kinney
When I was little, we used to have Atari.
‐‐ Rachel Dratch
When I was little, when I was a toddler or something, I would watch 'Jason's Lyrica' lot.
‐‐ Keith Stanfield
When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals.
‐‐ James Fallows
When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.
‐‐ Carolina Herrera
When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.
‐‐ Gary Jennings
When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.
‐‐ Larry David
When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
‐‐ Eddie Redmayne
When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
‐‐ Larry David
When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.
‐‐ Edmund White
When I was living in the Dominican Republic, the local kids became a part of my family.
‐‐ Maika Monroe
When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.
‐‐ Danny Bonaduce
When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
‐‐ Al McGuire
When I was made CEO of Reynolds the first time, someone asked me what it was like to be a female CEO. But I said, 'I don't know what its like to be a male CEO, so I can't really answer that question.'
‐‐ Susan Cameron
When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
‐‐ Park Chan-wook
When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.
‐‐ Kid Rock
When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.'
‐‐ George Lucas
When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.
‐‐ Kevin Hart
When I was married, I didn't work. When I had my children, I didn't work. But before that, I'd work for Diana Vreeland at 'Harper's Bazaar.'
‐‐ Lee Radziwill
When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.
‐‐ Patti LaBelle
When I was married, or a few years ago, I never thought I was fat. I never thought I was huge. I was like, 'I still look good. I'm just made to have curves or be a little bigger.'
‐‐ Khloe Kardashian
When I was married to an abuser, he'd tell me he wouldn't have to get so angry if only I'd be less demanding, more supportive, more understanding. I hid the truth from everyone, especially myself.
‐‐ Luanne Rice
When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.
‐‐ T. J. Perkins
When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand