I have never – I have never let go of my childhood contacts. My best friends from childhood are still my best friends. – Oscar Hijuelos
I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I’ve only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind. – Orson Welles
I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally. – Robbie Robertson
I’ve always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I’ve never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side. – Paul Reubens
Directing is all tied up with childhood loneliness. It’s such an odd thing to end up doing. – Paul Greengrass
The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I was last to have sex. That’s why it’s fun to portray one side of your childhood onscreen. – Paul Feig
There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us. – Pamela Stephenson
I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency. – Olga Kurylenko
What can I say? I deal with it. I think I have come to terms with my absolutely hateful and vile childhood. No, I have, really. But I did hate it at the time. I resented it. There were elements of it that were positively Dickensian. – Richard Griffiths
To be honest, I was the world’s worst vegetarian. You see – I didn’t really like vegetables very much. I’d spent most of my childhood terrified of them – horrid bland mushy things. It’s only as an adult I realise that part of the problem is my mother’s cooking – she hates using salt and has a tendency to overboil things. Thanks, Mum. – Rob Manuel
I had a very turbulent and painful childhood, like many people. I left for college when I was 16 years old and up until that point I’d lived in five different family configurations. Each one ended or changed through a death or some terrible loss. – Sharon Salzberg
I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount. – Ridley Scott
My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me. – Ross MacDonald
Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit. – Randy Pausch
I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside. – Pam Ferris
I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn’t form it into speech. – Richard Griffiths
A place makes a deep impression on you when you’re young. It lives with you. It’s like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination. – Richard Eyre
I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil. – Robert Green Ingersoll
My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America. – Olivia Wilde
I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality – you’re told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things. – Richard Dawkins
You know, as an only child, you’re kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can’t really place. – Penn Badgley
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness. – Robert Carlyle
I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete’s record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him. – Roger Federer
What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was – because you’re in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you’ve known them all of your life. – Octavia Spencer