All Quotes

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

When I was a kid, they bussed us down to a screening of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in an old theater, and it was just a great experience.
‐‐ Raymond Cruz

When I was a kid, to me, the Evergreen Players were the big time.
‐‐ Trey Parker

When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go through the long-distance phone companies like MCI, which were difficult to navigate and expensive to make calls through.
‐‐ Jan Koum

When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him. And he's still very present on TV because he's commenting for Formula One.
‐‐ Daniel Bruhl

When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
‐‐ Randy Houser

When I was a kid, we didn't eat in restaurants much, but a good report card meant my sister or I could choose anyplace in town for a dinner out, and I always picked Benny's, a dive bar near the train station, because they had the best nachos around.
‐‐ Rosecrans Baldwin

When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering.
‐‐ Tom Petty

When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
‐‐ Terry Brooks

When I was a kid, we lived in Italy, which isn't really known for figure skating. I think that's why I excelled so well. I spent a lot of my high school years training.
‐‐ Meta Golding

When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.
‐‐ Olga Kurylenko

When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.
‐‐ Dennis Weaver

When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.
‐‐ Ben Falcone

When I was a kid, we went to St. Augustine, Fla., and I was lying on the couch one night with a Q-tip, cleaning my ear out after I'd taken a shower. I hit my arm on something, jabbed the Q-tip through my ear drum, busted my ear drum and couldn't get back in the water the rest of the time we were there.
‐‐ Jason Aldean

When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a 'Led Zeppelin IV' cassette tape in the garage, and it was just amazing-sounding music, not like anything I'd heard before. I remember thinking: 'Well, if God created music, why is his music in church not as good as this?'
‐‐ Nathaniel Rateliff

When I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.
‐‐ Meryl Streep

When I was a kid, which was just after Edison invented moving pictures, there were films that involved aliens coming to Earth for bad purposes.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

When I was a kid, while touring East Berlin - back when there was an East Berlin - I got my left foot stuck in an escalator in Alexanderplatz. A few hours later, thanks to blowtorches and chainsaws and East German soldiers and the U.S. Embassy, my foot was released, and I along with it.
‐‐ Kevin Bleyer

When I was a kid, you would tune in to 'The Tonight Show' before you went to sleep. Johnny Carson. A big treat. I know it's a privilege of mine to be able to be in people's homes. So I hope I make everyone proud, including my parents, and do a good job in this.
‐‐ Jimmy Fallon

When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
‐‐ Dan Jenkins

When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz

When I was a little boy, I always wanted to run. I loved competing with my friends.
‐‐ David Rudisha

When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.
‐‐ Georg Brandes

When I was a little boy, I didn't know what the Hall of Fame was. I was just playing the game of baseball, and I wanted to be just like my dad.
‐‐ Roberto Alomar

When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.
‐‐ Charles Kuralt

When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music, the sound, the meaning. I felt like calling him by phone, like a friend.
‐‐ Roberto Benigni

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.
‐‐ Milan Kundera

When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back 'til he won. I honestly feel that's how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going.
‐‐ James Frey

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
‐‐ Isaac Bashevis Singer

When I was a little child, my parents taught me by example to pray. I began with a picture in my mind of Heavenly Father being far away. As I have matured, my experience with prayer has changed. The picture in my mind has become one of a Heavenly Father who is close by, who is bathed in a bright light, and who knows me perfectly.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring

When I was a little girl at school, I really wanted to be Katie or Sarah or Sophie. When you're a little girl at school, you want to be like the other little girls.
‐‐ Viva Bianca

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn't really know what all that meant. I didn't know.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being an elf.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

When I was a little girl, I got 'Time' magazine every week, and I wanted my face on the cover, but I've changed a lot since then.
‐‐ Deanna Dunagan

When I was a little girl, I lived for modeling and fashion - I used to love, love, love modeling.
‐‐ Chanel Iman

When I was a little girl, I loved monkeys. I wanted to be a primatologist. I went to the careers office to ask how. Because nobody could give me a good answer, I opted for acting.
‐‐ Audrey Tautou

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.
‐‐ Emily Ratajkowski

When I was a little girl, I remember carrying my orange UNICEF carton with me as I went Trick-or-Treating.
‐‐ Brandy Norwood

When I was a little girl, I thought I was Sydney Carton in Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' I don't think anyone else did.
‐‐ Amy Bloom

When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'
‐‐ Olivia Hussey

When I was a little girl, I used to watch a lot of monster movies, like 'Godzilla.' All those monster movies.
‐‐ Rinko Kikuchi

When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a civil engineer. No joke. I would come home from school and build bridges out of toothpicks and see how much weight they would hold before falling.
‐‐ Bitsie Tulloch

When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a rock star. I wanted to be Steven Tyler. It was really strange, but as a little girl you think anything is possible, and it is. I never even thought about being an actress.
‐‐ Stephanie Sigman

When I was a little girl, I was incredibly shy. My hope was to blend in, to fit in, to not be noticed in any significant way. I was deeply insecure and unsure of myself.
‐‐ Misty Copeland

When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.
‐‐ Dita Von Teese

When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

When I was a little girl in Savannah playing, there were never enough hours in the day or holes on the golf course. I just loved the game so much.
‐‐ Hollis Stacy

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.
‐‐ Jessica Savitch

When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had yellow roses growing all the way up his drive.
‐‐ Natalie Dormer

When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

When I was a little girl my parents always told me do everything you want in an artistic way. If you want to draw, make a drawing. Just do it. And if you want to play piano, play piano. It was a very free childhood where everything was possible.
‐‐ Melanie Laurent

When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom, and so far I've done it.
‐‐ Jenny McCarthy

When I was a little girl, the only real form of entertainment I was exposed to was theater, being raised in St. Louis, and I still love theater, and I think sitcoms are similar to that, in there's a live audience, and you know, I definitely like the comedy of it, too. I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing.
‐‐ Kelly Stables

When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.
‐‐ Christina Ricci

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood