All Quotes

As a child, I remember I always wanted to make my parents happy and give them everything in their lives.
‐‐ Rani Mukerji

As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
‐‐ Iggy Azalea

As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.
‐‐ Harald zur Hausen

As a child, I sat in the back of the bus. I was told, time and time again, that God's potential didn't exist in people like me. I've spent my life fighting to change that. And, from the first day when I met Hillary Clinton, I've known that she's someone who cares just as much and fights just as hard.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.
‐‐ Queen Rania of Jordan

As a child, I spent a lot of time alone. I used to sit in my closet with one cracker. I'd pretend that I was on the North Pole freezing to death, and I had to somehow survive on this one tiny cracker.
‐‐ Teri Hatcher

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.
‐‐ Tracy Chapman

As a child, I spent a lot of time wandering around the prairies and in the hills, and there was a sense that it was such a wide-open space, and there was kind of a feeling of potential. I could imagine anything happening there.
‐‐ Arthur Slade

As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun

As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.
‐‐ J. Smith-Cameron

As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.
‐‐ Olivia Colman

As a child, I used 'gay' as a bad word, as in, 'That's so gay.' All my friends did.
‐‐ Cara Delevingne

As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.
‐‐ Mary Quant

As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.
‐‐ Katie Price

As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor.
‐‐ Erin O'Connor

As a child, I wanted to be a lawyer because I thought lawyers and the law were wonderful. But they are more wonderful, I think, than I had thought.
‐‐ Janet Reno

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.
‐‐ Jonathan Ames

As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions.
‐‐ Lavrenti Lopes

As a child I wanted to become an architect.
‐‐ Chris Hughes

As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
‐‐ Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.
‐‐ Jane Asher

As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone.
‐‐ Bipasha Basu

As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.
‐‐ Gemma Ward

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
‐‐ Gunter Grass

As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.
‐‐ Tracy Morgan

As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then I was airlifted again to India.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

As a child, I was always interested in building things. Instead of buying candy, I would purchase nails, which I used to construct things out of scrap wood. My mother always claimed that my spending my money on nails instead of on candy was why I was so skinny as a kid.
‐‐ Robert H. Grubbs

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.
‐‐ Grace Gealey

As a child, I was always intrigued by the question: what is it that distinguishes a city from a town? Is it size? Population? Location? When I asked grown-ups, the confident answer was that a city has to have a cathedral - which, to a child raised in a devout Catholic setting, made sense.
‐‐ John Burnside

As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
‐‐ Zola Jesus

As a child, I was always playing some generic child.
‐‐ Susan Olsen

As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I kind of accidentally fell into it and loved it. There was no reason not to - it was a great career.
‐‐ Hooman Majd

As a child, I was an active Christian. I used to love the school choir and remember the carol service as always such an emotional thing.
‐‐ Douglas Adams

As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted in the evenings by the arrival of my father who preferred to live in a state of emergency.
‐‐ Susan Shreve

As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father. I think I was only 8 when I read Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'
‐‐ Jim Harrison

As a child, I was as intrigued by the Evil Queen as I was charmed by Snow White.
‐‐ Stephane Rolland

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.
‐‐ Sylvia Earle

As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation.
‐‐ Rosecrans Baldwin

As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.
‐‐ John Burnside

As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is.
‐‐ Harry Lloyd

As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers. I was a gullible country boy from Rocky Mount, Virginia, and I believed every folktale they told me, no matter how fantastic.
‐‐ Jesse L. Martin

As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home where there were a lot of rules. I didn't have 'yes' parents.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Chriqui

As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
‐‐ Nadine Velazquez

As a child, I was just never that interested in the lives of my favourite actors, like Cary Grant. I do wonder whether knowing too much about someone's personal life interrupts an audience's ability to suspend disbelief, to really invest in the characters. My preference would always be that people engage with the work.
‐‐ Chiwetel Ejiofor

As a child, I was lucky to have the support of my parents because starting a tennis career is a very expensive adventure.
‐‐ Stanislas Wawrinka

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
‐‐ Dave Barry