Samantha Bond Quotes

During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.

My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.

When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me.

From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

I remember tap-dancing and singing in front of the TV when I was a kid, telling my dad to stop watching Ed Sullivan or Milton Berle and watch me.

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music.

My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.

Growing up with my family gave me some of my best memories. I'd like to have a family of my own - slip away for a bit and do nothing but spend those early years with my children.

You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.

My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.

London theatre is different: it is a commercial theatre that brings the whole of society into one place. And Shakespeare grasped, better than anyone else, what it means to engage the entire audience.

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.

Hawaii is a beautiful place to bring up a family.

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.

I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home.

My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.

I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

Kids used to come round to my house, and I'd force them to do a play in the bay windows of my house and get all the mums and dads to sit and watch. I'd write the programme, write the play and be the star.

I had a Jackson 5 wig that I would wear around, and I would do, like, the dances from the Jackson 5, and, you know, my mother thought that was hysterical. So of course, that seed got planted very early, the physicality of comedy.

I'm a really nostalgic person. I love taking photos and video and having memories. I remember all my childhood videos that my dad used to take. I think that's really what life is about - especially when you start a family of your own.