When I was a kid, my dad kind of forced me to sing the third harmony for our little family group, and I just kind of hated it. I just felt so uncomfortable on stage, too shy.
‐‐ Nathaniel Rateliff
When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41.
‐‐ Nick Nolte
When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories throughout the day. And when it came time to go to preschool, my English wasn't really so great because my mother wanted me to learn Ukrainian, so she signed me up for these children's theater groups.
‐‐ Nina Arianda
When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after the little redhead girl.
‐‐ Alicia Witt
When I was a kid, my father brought home the autobiography of Sid Luckman, the great Chicago Bears quarterback - probably an extra copy from the sports department where he worked. It was the first sports biography I ever read.
‐‐ George Vecsey
When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.
‐‐ Frank Gehry
When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.
‐‐ Jill Lepore
When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of 'War Of The Worlds,' 'Them,' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' Those movies were scary! They haunted my nightmares for years, so when I started writing, I wanted to write a story that was just as big and just as scary.
‐‐ David Gerrold
When I was a kid, my first dream was to play Test matches, and the second one was to play 100 Test matches because there are very few people who have played 100 Tests for India.
‐‐ Virender Sehwag
When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side.'
‐‐ Michael Rapaport
When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader for my brother's band.
‐‐ Trombone Shorty
When I was a kid, my grandfather used to watch Bollywood films. There's a lot of colour and vibrancy to the Indian films.
‐‐ James Wan
When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.
‐‐ Steve Burns
When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.
‐‐ Ariel Gore
When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.
‐‐ Halle Berry
When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone
When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy.
‐‐ Natalia Kills
When I was a kid, my mum had a lot of Dumas books in the house, and she's from France originally. My mother had one particular Dumas book that was a family heirloom - this old, beat-up 1938 edition of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' in French. She came to America after losing her parents in World War II as a little kid.
‐‐ Tom Reiss
When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with.
‐‐ Noel Fisher
When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never very good at it. I have big, sort of awkward hands. It's hard to keep going when you don't get any better.
‐‐ Christopher Walken
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
‐‐ Rodney Dangerfield
When I was a kid, my parents were always like, 'Money doesn't buy happiness.' I thought, 'You just didn't make enough money.' I had to go find it out for myself.
‐‐ Mike Posner
When I was a kid, my parents would play badminton, but I hardly joined them. I'd just pick up their racquets and fiddle around. Check out how the racquet was made... toss it around to see how light it was! At the time, I didn't even know I'd play badminton.
‐‐ Saina Nehwal
When I was a kid, my pop used to take me to the double feature. He would take me - I had two brothers - and we used to go in the early '80s and check out these grindhouse movies - a double feature, sometimes a triple feature.
‐‐ Freddy Rodriguez
When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to get a little present in our stocking each day of December, usually an ornament, some sweets, or a little toy.
‐‐ Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.
‐‐ Tim McGraw
When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
When I was a kid, nobody in my family had a car. And I didn't have many toys. The only toys I had were the ones I would steal.
‐‐ DMX
When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.
‐‐ Robert Redford
When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.
‐‐ Taylor Hawkins
When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.
‐‐ Jerry Reed
When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'
‐‐ Mark Frauenfelder
When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.
‐‐ Anne Lamott
When I was a kid, people called me Emily rather than Esperanza, even though my full name is Esperanza Emily Spalding.
‐‐ Esperanza Spalding
When I was a kid, people people would always say, 'Oh you look like Chilli from TLC.' It wasn't until I did 'Akeelah and the Bee' that people started saying I looked like Angela Bassett, but before then it was Chilli.
‐‐ Keke Palmer
When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.
‐‐ Phil Donahue
When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were flamboyant with your spending. Then phone calls became as cheap as dirt and as constant as rain, and I was on the phone all the time.
‐‐ Susan Orlean
When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.
‐‐ Penn Jillette
When I was a kid, 'Scooby Doo' was, hands down, my favorite cartoon. Even when I was older, when I was in college studying and I needed to tune out for a while, I'd watch 'Scooby Doo.'
‐‐ Linda Cardellini
When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp
When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.
‐‐ Mark Mothersbaugh
When I was a kid, the great debate was about how to defeat the Soviet Union. And we won. Now we are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom. This is a distraction from our real problems. Who cares?
‐‐ Peter Thiel
When I was a kid, the high point of the day was to go to the mailbox and see if any mail came for me, and I'm still stuck in that mode.
‐‐ Jim Beaver
When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.
‐‐ Edward Furlong
When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.
‐‐ Forest Whitaker
When I was a kid, the people that used to push other people around, if someone whacked them, then they wouldn't be pushing people around again. But you can't really do that with adults.
‐‐ Jason Statham
When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi
When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg
When I was a kid, there was no distinction between a movie about old people or young people. It was either funny or not. It was either entertaining or not. It was either exciting or not. It was either thrilling or not.
‐‐ Joseph Bologna
When I was a kid, there was nothing better than water balloon fights. I grew up in Brooklyn: we had the fire hydrants, and we would open up a soda can at both ends and squirt people walking by. I love the kinds of things that encourage you to let your guard down, be open and vulnerable, and just to be laughing sincerely.
‐‐ Dawnn Lewis
When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
‐‐ Taj Mahal
When I was a kid, there was teasing in school. Then when I was a teenager on 'Days of Our Lives,' I certainly experienced hurtful comments from 'fans' of the show.
‐‐ Alison Sweeney
When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family - was dealt with partly by escaping to television. And from a very early age, for whatever reason, I became scornful and resistant to and angry about that. And some other time in my life, I realized that there's a lot I loved in television.
‐‐ Robert Pinsky
When I was a kid there were a very select few channels - programmes had to have more of a large appeal and they just didn't offer very much. Now you have a situation where the television world has expanded and there's hundreds of channels.
‐‐ Bryan Cranston
When I was a kid, there were hardly any gay story lines or characters on television that I recall. Then when I was in college, 'Will & Grace' started up.
‐‐ Andrew Rannells
When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she'd pay a little toward the purchase.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki
When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous.
‐‐ R. L. Stine