All Quotes

As a kid, I saw those ticker-tape parades in the movies, and I was really chuffed to be in one.
‐‐ Rick Astley

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.
‐‐ James Ellroy

As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.
‐‐ Jonathan Rhys Meyers

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.
‐‐ Diablo Cody

As a kid, I think I rearranged the rooms of almost every house on the block.
‐‐ Nate Berkus

As a kid, I think I wanted to be the on-set dresser for 'Charlie's Angels'. My goals weren't lofty. No. I just wanted to someday quit my paper round and that was about it.
‐‐ Ryan Reynolds

As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing things.
‐‐ Noel Wells

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.
‐‐ Sandra Lee

As a kid, I thought movies were boring. My parents would hire VHS recorders for the weekend and watch Bollywood movies. I'd get bored and go out to Stoke Newington common to play football.
‐‐ Asif Kapadia

As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny.
‐‐ Noah Baumbach

As a kid, I thought of myself as stupid because I needed remedial help. It was not until much later that I figured out that I was dyslexic and that my trouble with spelling and sounding out words did not mean I was stupid, but early impressions stuck with me and colored my world for a time.
‐‐ Carol W. Greider

As a kid, I used to be equal parts drawn to and horrified of the circus. They would have these beautiful canvas posters for Lobster Boy, bearded women, and this and that.
‐‐ Mitch Glazer

As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes before I ever flew in one. I really knew, when I started photographing, I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to enter other lives. I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.
‐‐ Mary Ellen Mark

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.
‐‐ Jim Coleman

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.
‐‐ Cheech Marin

As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.
‐‐ David Blaine

As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.
‐‐ Gary Wright

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.
‐‐ Skeet Ulrich

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don't take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.
‐‐ Virat Kohli

As a kid, I used to sing, dance, I was into dramatics. I would love to pursue being an actor, but not as such as a hero.
‐‐ Terence Lewis

As a kid, I wanted to be a musician but also aspired to be Andy Griffith's lawyer character, Ben Matlock.
‐‐ John Legend

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always 'played up' against older age groups.
‐‐ Matt Kuchar

As a kid, I wanted to be a sportscaster. On the radio. I loved the idea of painting a picture. I didn't want to be on TV. I wanted to be Jon Miller, who called all the Orioles games.
‐‐ Thomas Kail

As a kid, I wanted to be the person running from the monster. I also wanted to be the person saving people from the monster. I wanted to be a superhero.
‐‐ Ray Santiago

As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.
‐‐ Daniel H. Wilson

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.
‐‐ Shigeru Miyamoto

As a kid, I was a dancer in Dick Whittington, Snow White and Cinderella. When I was 14, I played Baby Bear. I had a big head on, and you couldn't see my face. My mum was very disappointed.
‐‐ Sheridan Smith

As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.
‐‐ Teller

As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter.
‐‐ Mary Lou Retton

As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.
‐‐ Simon Baker

As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
‐‐ Caity Lotz

As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.
‐‐ David Lynch

As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
‐‐ Aaron Koblin

As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.
‐‐ Beth Ditto

As a kid, I was always picky about food; if it didn't 'look right,' I wouldn't eat it.
‐‐ Nicola Adams

As a kid, I was always very shy growing up - I wasn't very good at articulating my thoughts or my feelings. Now that I'm older, I found acting to do that. So it's been an amazing way to sort of express who I am.
‐‐ Colin Egglesfield

As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
‐‐ Octavia Spencer

As a kid I was creative.
‐‐ Novak Djokovic

As a kid, I was creative and unique, and I've had that my whole life.
‐‐ Lindsey Stirling

As a kid, I was definitely a DC guy. I started reading big time in the '80s at the height of the Wolfman/Perez 'New Teen Titans.' That was definitely the book that hooked me.
‐‐ Jason Aaron

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.
‐‐ Robert Jay Lifton

As a kid, I was going to be a marine biologist or an actor. When I became successful as an actor, I said, 'Well, maybe I can lend a voice to this with an equal passion.' You realize how lucky we are and how destructive we've been and what little regard we have for the natural world.
‐‐ Leonardo DiCaprio

As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost Cause' emphasis on the Confederacy. I used to play Civil War soldiers with my brothers as a child, and my older brother always insisted that he got to be Lee, and I got be Grant. I never knew that Grant won until quite some time had passed.
‐‐ Drew Gilpin Faust

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.
‐‐ Chris Daughtry

As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday.
‐‐ Mary J. Blige

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox

As a kid, I was just a kid. Average.
‐‐ Bill Callahan

As a kid, I was just led out in the morning to go spend my day with my friends and just run in the woods. And I'd only come home to eat or when I was thirsty.
‐‐ Adam Beach

As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.
‐‐ Damien Chazelle