Childhood Quotes

"I was an only child until I was 15, so I was able to reap the benefit of that."

"Growing up, my aunts would always put in hair ties and bows and all kinds of stuff, and I always hated it."

"I was a military brat. My dad was in the military, so I was born in Germany. I moved around a lot; I was in church a lot."

"I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth."

"Nothing could be as hard as middle school."

"I was raised in an environment where chaos was the norm, so I was at my best in chaos."

"A friend of the family gave me a Game Boy when I was very little, and it was amazing."

"What we recall as children is a version of what's happening around us."

"I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into."

"I grew up on an island without TV."

"I wasn't always tall. I was shorter so my stepdad had me at point guard so I learned those skills."

"I seemed to have been born reading."

"I was born close to soccer, and I've been living and working in soccer since I was small."

"I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me."

"When I was a kid, my father would read Neil Simon plays with me, when I was going to bed, as bedtime stories."

"I rode horses since I was a kid."

"When I was a child, I longed to leave my parents and just roam about."

"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."

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

"I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language."

"I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up."

"My mum took me to see 'The Wizard of Oz' when I was about three and I was blown away."

"It will sound very cliched but when I was kid I always wanted to be singer and never an actor."

“When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, "You are so good!"

“When I was about nine or 10, I was on a few random talent shows in shopping malls.”