All Quotes

When I was a kid, I always had a big thing for Dannii Minogue. Initially I liked Kylie, but I quickly moved on to Dannii. There was always something more alluring about her. I think I actually wrote to her asking if we could meet.
‐‐ Andrew Buchan

When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
‐‐ Katarina Johnson-Thompson

When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.
‐‐ Daryl Hall

When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.
‐‐ Daniel Johnston

When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding.
‐‐ Demetri Martin

When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.
‐‐ Diablo Cody

When I was a kid, I believed in Santa Claus. But it was very tough because in the Dominican... there are not a lot of rich people there.
‐‐ Alfonso Soriano

When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child. Everyone was playing football, and I was collecting cactuses. I spent all my money on them. I had so many colors and shapes. I even gave them names.
‐‐ Stjepan Hauser

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
‐‐ Olympia Dukakis

When I was a kid, I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one.
‐‐ Alicia Keys

When I was a kid, I'd read about celebrities who didn't want to talk to their fans after a show. I told myself, 'That's terrible, and I would never do that.'
‐‐ Judy Gold

When I was a kid, I'd spray paint my hair, cut clothes up.
‐‐ Rita Ora

When I was a kid I'd swing imaginary light sabers around, and now I've had the opportunity to get paid for it.
‐‐ Samuel Witwer

When I was a kid, I'd wake up extraordinarily early every morning and turn on the television, scanning for episodes of 'The Jetsons.' For some reason, I loved the notion of a future where there would be flying cars, supercomputers, and most of all, robot maids to take care of the chores.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.
‐‐ Bryan Lee O'Malley

When I was a kid I did marshal arts, and then I did all-star crazy competitive cheer and dance, and then I swam so I was very muscular. You know, healthy, but not quite as thin as I am.
‐‐ Ashley Greene

When I was a kid I didn't feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I didn't think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn't think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh.
‐‐ Courteney Cox

When I was a kid, I didn't have any girlfriends. I was a very nerdy-type dude. Believe me, being a ham does not turn girls on.
‐‐ Terry Crews

When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn't want to do. I didn't want to grow up, have 2.2 kids, get married, the whole white picket fence thing.
‐‐ Jody Williams

When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it.
‐‐ Jennie Finch

When I was a kid I feel lonely, I have not many friends. If you make a movie, then you can work with different kinds of people and make different kinds of friend. That's very important to me.
‐‐ John Woo

When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn't pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did.
‐‐ Ted Chiang

When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.
‐‐ Gavin DeGraw

When I was a kid, I got really great advice from someone who is so important to me and someone who I respect so much, and they told me, 'Don't do too many endorsements. Don't throw your name on things; think of your longevity.'
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

When I was a kid I got so much help from the Church. When I was a kid, our family was so poor they couldn't afford me to go to school, so there was an American family that send the money to the church to support my school fees.
‐‐ John Woo

When I was a kid, I had a couple of really good friends, like some really good best friends, but I was really shy other than that.
‐‐ Meg Cabot

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.
‐‐ Richard Branson

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
‐‐ Jack McBrayer

When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club.
‐‐ Ann Leckie

When I was a kid, I had serious athlete's foot and nosebleeds.
‐‐ Ken Kercheval

When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.
‐‐ David Johansen

When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me 'Chick' because I looked like Tweety Bird.
‐‐ Nicky Hilton

When I was a kid, I had this idea that I would have a beard when I got older. I thought it'd be nice to rub my chin.
‐‐ Rosario Dawson

When I was a kid. I had traveled the world by the time I was 13 years old because of all the competitions I did for inline skating.
‐‐ Brittany Bowe

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
‐‐ M. Night Shyamalan

When I was a kid, I had two nightmares: one was nuclear war, and the other was that my parents would get a divorce; and when I was twenty, they split up, and I just felt like I needed to confront all those things that scared me as a kid - entering young adulthood and trying to have relationships.
‐‐ Derek Cianfrance

When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don't know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people doing baby talk in the crib and sticking their big, fat faces in there and scaring me. So I always talk to kids as if they were a person.
‐‐ Michael Feldman

When I was a kid, I hated everything. I was really skinny, and I'd have a milkshake with an egg in it. Growing up, I ate, like, five different foods. I was not an adventurous eater. But as soon as I left home, that all changed and from that point on, I've been a pretty enthusiastic eater of new and strange food.
‐‐ Mary Roach

When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.
‐‐ Masaharu Morimoto

When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.
‐‐ Christopher Walken

When I was a kid, I just devoured TV 24 hours a day. Now that it's actually available 24 hours a day, I'm usually busy doing other stuff. But I do watch TV when I can.
‐‐ Luke Perry

When I was a kid, I knew the black and white version of 'Jane Eyre,' and I guess I became interested in the idea of romantic love - of unrequited love and the tragedies of that; of what are the important things in life; what should one value over other materials.
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They were like their own whole world.
‐‐ Chris Ware

When I was a kid, I liked Superman. When I got a little older, I liked Wolverine. And then I found girls.
‐‐ Jeremy Sisto

When I was a kid, I looked up to an Olympian superstar. I won't mention his name but when I asked for his autograph he said, 'no.'
‐‐ Ryan Lochte

When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my city, and I called every hotel in the Yellow Pages asking for a room by the name of their manager in hopes of meeting the band. After two or three hours of calling hotels, I got through, and the manager's brother answered the phone.
‐‐ Steve-O

When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood - and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey.
‐‐ Christian Cota

When I was a kid, I loved having a book in my hand. I still do. I wasn't a fast reader, but I was a steady reader. I read all of The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Cherry Ames books.
‐‐ Rhea Perlman

When I was a kid, I loved history because history to me was a big story.
‐‐ Roy Conli

When I was a kid, I loved horror films. I used to stay up on Saturday night to watch.
‐‐ Richard Jenkins

When I was a kid, I loved Jackie Chan.
‐‐ Lucas Till

When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding.
‐‐ Harmony Korine

When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.
‐‐ John Goodman

When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.
‐‐ John Carpenter

When I was a kid, I loved to draw, and I was lucky because I had parents and teachers and grown-ups around who recognised and encouraged that.
‐‐ Tony DiTerlizzi

When I was a kid, I loved watching kung fu movies - in San Francisco, we had 'Kung Fu Theater' on TV on Saturdays, and they'd air old Shaw Brothers movies with English dubbing, things like that.
‐‐ Daniel Wu

When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.
‐‐ Mary J. Blige

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, 'Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.'
‐‐ Steven Wright

When I was a kid, I never even thought about fashion. I had one pair of jeans.
‐‐ Gisele Bundchen

When I was a kid, I never felt that what I was drawing really represented me; it was just something I enjoyed.
‐‐ Jim Lee

When I was a kid I never knew the difference between a sitcom and a drama. I just knew what my parents were watching and what was making them happy.
‐‐ Dan Harmon

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.
‐‐ Charlie Watts

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.
‐‐ Jim Henson

When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.
‐‐ Larry Bird

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family's footsteps and going into professional wrestling.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

When I was a kid, I played basketball religiously. I begged my mom to get me voice lessons because I wanted to learn to sing the right way, but at the same time, I was playing Junior Olympic basketball, and I was playing point guard for my school. But I was wanting to get into entertainment, into music and film and television.
‐‐ Justin Timberlake

When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the neighborhood a lot, and it was all about sports. I would be out all day on the sand lot or on the hockey rink. My dad would take me to baseball games, but he worked so hard, and he would always fall asleep.
‐‐ Alex Gibney

When I was a kid, I played the piano for six years, and all my family are musicians.
‐‐ Tina Maze

When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.
‐‐ Bruce Coville

When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
‐‐ M. J. Rose

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.
‐‐ Michael Birch

When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.
‐‐ Dave Attell

When I was a kid, I really loved watching 'Cinderella.' It's a fantasy, and every girl knows that real life isn't always like these movies, but as a child, I just really loved the story of 'Cinderella.' I found it to be so romantic and just a beautiful movie to watch.
‐‐ Sara Ramirez

When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. That's just the way it was.
‐‐ Teemu Selanne

When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's sound. It's just part of who I am - I'm just a soulful kind of dude.
‐‐ Elliott Yamin

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.
‐‐ Jose Antonio Vargas

When I was a kid, I thought I saw a ghost in the forest when I was on a bush walk, like a walk through the forest. I saw something weird pass from one side of the track to the other, and it was sort of a white, blurry... it's hard to describe, really - something that was almost see-through, but it just moved in front of me.
‐‐ Rhys Darby

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor.
‐‐ Tom Ford

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
‐‐ Al Yankovic

When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
‐‐ Jack Black

When I was a kid, I thought I was Wonder Woman.
‐‐ Carolyn Murphy

When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
‐‐ Idris Elba

When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, 'This is one of the great ones.'
‐‐ Lindsay Lohan

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

When I was a kid, I thought my dad was a little bit harsh with me at times. Sometimes I needed an arm around me instead of my dad telling me what I did wrong, but it obviously worked.
‐‐ David Beckham

When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.
‐‐ George Saunders

When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light off and dive into bed. One night, as I did that, there was this gigantic spider next to my pillow. I hit the bed and bounced straight back up When I turned the light back on, it was already gone. I could not sleep in my room for days.
‐‐ Brian Krause

When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

When I was a kid I used to go to the movies, double features in outdoor theaters, and my parents used to take us to see like, 'Cat On a Hot Tin Roof' or something like that, with Elizabeth Taylor.
‐‐ Michael Biehn

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.
‐‐ Lou Brock

When I was a kid, I used to listen to my Emerson radio late at night under the covers. I started by listening to jazz in the late 1940s and then vocal harmony groups like the Four Freshmen, the Modernaires and the Hi-Lo's. I loved Stan Kenton's big band - with those dark chords and musicians who could swing cool with individual sounds.
‐‐ Frankie Valli

When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.
‐‐ Donald Dunn

When I was a kid, I used to love it when one of my friends would jump out from behind a door and try to scare me. I always did the same thing in response.
‐‐ Patrick Carman

When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
‐‐ Omar Dorsey

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
‐‐ Emo Philips