All Quotes

I was a very naughty child, on the verge of getting expelled, but I wasn't a bad child; everything I did was for my own entertainment. But when I went into an exam, I did really well.
‐‐ Stormzy

I was a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious.
‐‐ Iman

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
‐‐ Beverly Cleary

I was a very outgoing, gregarious, full-of-energy kid.
‐‐ Sutton Foster

I was a very passionate basketball player, really enjoyed the sport. I played it my entire life.
‐‐ Brock Osweiler

I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
‐‐ Natalie Dormer

I was a very picky eater.
‐‐ Alice Waters

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.
‐‐ Tyler Perry

I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.
‐‐ Spoken Reasons

I was a very quiet kid. A really sweet kid, I might add.
‐‐ Janet Jackson

I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren't too many Hawaiian-Filipino girls, so I stuck out like a sore thumb. I didn't look like everyone else and didn't feel I belonged... But these things only build character and make you stronger. It taught me to grow into the woman I was to become.
‐‐ Nicole Scherzinger

I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
‐‐ Yehuda Amichai

I was a very religious kid. I was raised as an Episcopalian.
‐‐ Steven Seagal

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

I was a very romantic, overly dramatic young lady, which served me well as a songwriter. Especially as someone who had to focus on lyrics and melody, because if you're a dramatic and romantic person, lyrics come easy, and you turn every single short-term relationship into the biggest 'Romeo-and-Juliet' story ever.
‐‐ Jane Wiedlin

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.
‐‐ Annie Baker

I was a very sensitive kid who then had to condition myself to desensitize.
‐‐ Nikki Reed

I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.
‐‐ Samuel Dash

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
‐‐ Gabriela Sabatini

I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman

I was a very shy child.
‐‐ Jim Parsons

I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.
‐‐ Jim Parsons

I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that suddenly I saw the power of people. I didn't know such a power existed, I saw people criticising their own president; you couldn't do that in Pakistan - you'd be thrown in prison.
‐‐ Benazir Bhutto

I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
‐‐ Nancy Marchand

I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that put me in a coma for a few months. It took me four years to get my memory back.
‐‐ John Lydon

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.
‐‐ Len Wein

I was a very spastic kid who loved to see how high he could climb a tree. That's just the way I've always been.
‐‐ Stephen Colletti

I was a very special child. I did stand-up comedy. I did it all. My family didn't understand. 'Aren't you tired?' I'm like, 'No.' I'm like an insomniac, I hardly sleep, I'm always on the move.
‐‐ Alessandra Torresani

I was a very strange child.
‐‐ Alessia Cara

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.
‐‐ Alain de Botton

I was a very unconfident teenager. I wanted desperately to fit in.
‐‐ Trinny Woodall

I was a very undisciplined person but acting was something that actually motivated me to get up in the morning. I hadn't experienced that before, but it was something that really excited me. I think I could be quite self-conscious and it gave me a release.
‐‐ Rufus Sewell

I was a very unique child.
‐‐ Kat Dennings

I was a very unpredictable child. I'd pack a bag and go off and do a hike in the mountains for 10 days.
‐‐ Kiesza

I was a very, very careful printer when I used 8-by-10 film. I probably spent more time on printing than anything else. The more the prints were appreciated, the more time I spent on them.
‐‐ Ruth Bernhard

I was a very, very good congressman.
‐‐ Dan Maffei

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.
‐‐ Marianne Wiggins

I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.
‐‐ Christine Lavin

I was a very, very shy, insecure teenager.
‐‐ Twiggy

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
‐‐ Xavier Dolan

I was a very wanting child.
‐‐ Loretta Young

I was a very weird amalgam of things as a kid.
‐‐ Curt Schilling

I was a very weird child. I was very shy, so in school I would just mimic stand-up sets of Whoopi Goldberg.
‐‐ Melissa Rauch

I was a very young girl and I got into fashion very much by accident, wanting to be independent. What was wonderful was that while I was learning and discovering - learning about the work, discovering myself as a woman - I was allowing other women to feel the same way.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.
‐‐ Michael Jackson

I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
‐‐ Langston Hughes

I was a virgin. People find that hard to believe, but when you're raised in a church, that was just the way it is.
‐‐ Jessica Hahn

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
‐‐ P. J. Harvey

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.
‐‐ Danny Strong

I was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I was always a corporate Fortune 500 girl.
‐‐ Patti Stanger