All Quotes

As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to, like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

As a kid, I was mischievous, necessarily, but I always wanted to do adventurous stuff.
‐‐ Tyler Blackburn

As a kid, I was obsessed with Meryl Streep, and I still am.
‐‐ Grace Gealey

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.
‐‐ Nathan Parsons

As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.
‐‐ Taylor Wilson

As a kid, I was only allowed to watch a certain amount of television. But once I was old enough to own my own TV, I would stay up until 4:00 A.M. watching Home Shopping Network night after night. Soft-spoken women talked about the jewelry in very detailed, intricate, precious ways, and I loved it.
‐‐ Andrea Seigel

As a kid, I was pretty obsessed with dinosaurs and the day that my parents took me to Dinosaur National Park, I didn't think life could get any better.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned me on to material beyond musicals, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Durang plays.
‐‐ Matisyahu

As a kid, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, Texas, where I grew up, there was a guy that would walk down the street talking to himself. And I used to watch him and feel uneasy. And there was a sanitarium where people would say, 'That's where all the crazy people go.' It really sort of frightened me.
‐‐ Jamie Foxx

As a kid, I was school swot, but I used to hang around the billiard halls, learning that Geordie sense of humour, mixing with low-lifes. They were the sort who'd pick your pocket and then say 'Here you are lad, here's tuppence, get yourself some chips'. I was a good rugby player, a good runner, so I fitted in at Cambridge quite easily.
‐‐ Sid Waddell

As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.
‐‐ Tim Conway

As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid.
‐‐ Carl Hagelin

As a kid, I was super skinny.
‐‐ Amber Riley

As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter, and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating and terrifying. I had lots of insecurities and scaredness.
‐‐ Sarah Silverman

As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge.
‐‐ Eli Roth

As a kid, I was told to talk as much as possible.
‐‐ Christina Ricci

As a kid, I wasn't listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles.
‐‐ Nick Frost

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.
‐‐ Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I watched 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable French skunk pursuing his would-be kitty paramour, left his mark on me: became an instant emblem of odoriferous hubris, hedonistic bad behavior. He was an entry-level Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a rookie Marquis de Sade.
‐‐ Michael Paterniti

As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always make me laugh and are therefore my favourites are The Dick Van Dyke Show and Fawlty Towers.
‐‐ Colin Mochrie

As a kid, I went by Tray. In college, they called me Hitch. And Trash. And Park. All the usuals.
‐‐ Traylor Howard

As a kid, I went from reading kids' books to reading science fiction to reading, you know, adult fiction. There was never any gap. YA was a thing when I was a teenager, but it was a library category, not a marketing category, and you never really felt like it was a huge section.
‐‐ John Allison

As a kid, I would always shop for my back-to-school clothes at department stores. I lived in a small town, and department stores were all we had access to.
‐‐ Britt Robertson

As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.'
‐‐ Rupert Everett

As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

As a kid, I would look at my dad and ask him why he was wearing jeans with his tux. Today I love to do it. It's just fun to be a little more unique.
‐‐ David Lauren

As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
‐‐ Daniel Breaker

As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was different, and how the birds chanted different songs in the evening and the morning.
‐‐ Ishmael Beah

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.
‐‐ Steve Yzerman

As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.
‐‐ Raymond Floyd

As a kid in New Zealand, you play cricket in summer and rugby in winter. I played cricket and hockey. Not rugby. I wasn't brawny enough for it. Or silly enough, perhaps.
‐‐ Glenn Turner

As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mouth, I started whistling through it, and as a 32-year-old woman, whistling while you speak in sort of annoying.
‐‐ Mindy Kaling

As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.
‐‐ Victor Cruz

As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn't get 'Cabin Fever' made that fast I thought I'd failed.
‐‐ Eli Roth

As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.
‐‐ Zendaya

As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
‐‐ Kaskade

As a kid, my pops did music, too. He was in a group called Lakeside back in the day.
‐‐ Ty Dolla Sign

As a kid, on the cotton fields, I had this tune in my head. I hummed it and sang it. It was the same melody as 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' I could never, ever forget it.
‐‐ Percy Sledge

As a kid, Punky Brewster was my idol. I wanted to dress like her and talk like her.
‐‐ Devin Kelley

As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.
‐‐ Curtis Mayfield

As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.
‐‐ J. J. Abrams

As a kid, Terry Bradshaw didn't amaze me. My hero was Steelers backup Terry Hanratty, who nabbed two Super Bowl rings while completing three passes.
‐‐ Stephen Rodrick

As a kid, the theatre always felt a bit like running away to join the circus.
‐‐ Robert Sean Leonard

As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football.
‐‐ Nick Ferguson

As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.
‐‐ Lance Henriksen

As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.
‐‐ Smokey Robinson

As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to do. So I used my imagination all of the time growing up. That's the main way I played. When we moved and I went to high school, I did my first play, and I was completely addicted to theatre. It felt like home; it felt natural.
‐‐ Darby Stanchfield

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this.
‐‐ LeBron James

As a kid, what brought me in the gym, what got me in there every day was a chance to break your personal best, a chance to be strong; I just really, really dig that.
‐‐ John Cena