Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was eight that I wanted to be an actor.

Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes...

I practice every day. I’ve been doing it since I was eight.

My childhood was endless – from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

Once a decade, once every eight years, Donald Trump finds some pretext to say I suck and that I’m bad.

hic sacra domus carique penates, hic mihi Roma fuit.

They have him,’ Marina hisses, pointing into the dark. ‘They have his body and I’m not letting them keep it.

I got cast on ‘MADtv’ as one of eight permanent cast members chosen from 8,000 comics who’d been screened. For any comic trying to make something of themselves, that was like hitting triple 7s-jackpot.

I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.

History,’ Mari muttered, as if she’d overheard his thoughts. ‘Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?’ ‘So hopefully we get smarter and don’t make the same mistakes again.

I wanted to leave ‘Eight Is Enough’ for the Navy.

At the age of eight, John Quincy Adams was made the man of his house while his father, John Adams, was off doing important John Adams things for America. This would be a lot of...

My memories of camp – I was four years old to eight years old – they’re fond memories.