When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world.
I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.
Somehow, something is always suffering. Someone is always losing out somehow. If you pick one kid up, you're not picking the other one up. You just try to minimize those small let-downs because, in a way, life is a series of let-downs from everyone, all the time. We don't mean it, but it happens. So, I just try to minimize that and spread them wide.
When I was a kid, I always wanted to go to Europe, to go to Africa, to go traveling.
I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.
Every kid dreams of playing in the NFL or MLB and I was that 27-year-old that dreamed of fighting in the UFC. It was kind of surreal to see that I have actually accomplished what I set out to do. It's better than I could have ever imagined.
Showing your movie to an audience. . . it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.
I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd. I didn't have a ton of academic skills. It wasn't until I was in high school that I was like, "I guess I like writing dialogue. " So that's how I got into it.
The earliest issue I can remember going through was body image issues. I was a chubby little kid and I got made fun of for it. I dealt with horrible, horrible self esteem issues, and I still struggle with that. I think it's what taught me a lot of empathy and compassion, though, but there are those days where I look in the mirror and I still see twelve year old fat Sara.
I grew up a fat kid in a small town in Minnesota who was a tomboy and happened to play a mean violin. My goal was to be a famous concert artist some day.
I'm just a normal kid who lives to play baseball. I'm living my dream.
When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.
The older you get, the more you learn to see what you've been taught to see. When you're a kid, you see what's there.
I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.
But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.
Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.
I heard Pete Seeger records when I was a kid. I saw Bob Dylan when I was about 12. The first song I ever learned to play was a song by Phil Ochs.
It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.