I always felt as a kid that I was underappreciated, invisible or weird, but I’ve always secretly thought people would one day appreciate what is different about me. I’m always putting that message out there.

I was a pretty feisty young kid.

Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.

I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.

I don’t kid around.

Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you’re a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you’re...

When I was a kid and we first moved to the states I used to watch ‘Batman’ all the time – with Adam West. I finally got to work with him years ago, and I...

In every little boy child is hidden a great man; in every little girl child is hidden as great woman. God hides great things in little things and it takes the Holy Spirit of God...

I used to have nightmares when I was a little kid that I woke up prematurely and opened all the Christmas presents. And then I would be so relieved when I woke up and I...

I know, for me, ‘Grease’ was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre.

I’m a Detroit kid who grew up with that assembly line mentality: You go to work to make money.

There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o’clock at night, and I...

I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I’ve improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still...

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I’ve never gotten over it.

Even as a kid, I was more enchanted watching Bette Davis than Errol Flynn.

In my day, when I was a young kid, army duty was compulsory in South Africa or you go to jail. I had the choice, so I spent a year in the entertainment unit, and...

So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.

When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

I’ve never stopped loving cartoons. I loved cartoons as a kid. I can still look at them and enjoy them.

I’m hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I’d be pulling for him.

As a kid, ‘Star Wars’ was much more my thing than ‘Star Trek’ was.

I was a very quiet kid. A really sweet kid, I might add.

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool – I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.

I’ve always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.

As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.

Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school… I wasn’t a popular kid. I was an outcast.

I know. And you hate Fang looking at those girls. But we’re still havingfun, and Fang still loves you, and you’ll still save the world. Okay?

I have such fond memories of watching ‘Doctor Who’ when I was a kid and growing up, that if I’ve left anybody anywhere with memories as fond, then I feel like I’ve done my job.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours...

This kid’s excited because he’s with Bad Company and I’m excited because I’m with Chuck Berrys’ son.

Film is not a woman’s medium. If you weren’t the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.

When I was a kid doing television, they’d stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.

I wasn’t cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.

Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set.

When I was a kid, I was one of those really obnoxious ‘oooh oooh’ girls, with my hand up in the air constantly. I’ve learned over the years that that’s not so attractive, so I’ve...

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.

When I would see my friends with their kids, I was envious that you can use children to get out of just about anything. If you don’t feel like going to a dinner party, you...

I had a boom box, but I didn’t go too far with it because I had a really, really big one. It was like the size of a suitcase, and I was just a little...

When I was a kid, it was thought I would do something in the visual arts because I was always drawing, but when we emigrated to Australia from Holland when I was seven, I learnt...

When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.

I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.

Jerry Bruckheimer is the most hands-on producer that I’ve worked with. Jerry’s very involved in the music, and he’s such a fan of film. When you watch him playing back the cues to the picture,...

Writers don’t write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.