Erin O'Connor Quotes

I used to go to Dairy Queen all the time. It always brings back a little bit of memories. As kids, we always used to go get ice cream.

When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want to have access - free access.

When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat, that's as rich as I ever want to be.'

The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it.

'Match of the Day' is a great programme to be on. It's a programme I used to be allowed to stay up and watch from the age of 10, so to think that one day I'd actually appear on it was great.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

I love dessert. All kinds. But there's something about ice cream that makes me happy. I am drawn to its simplicity. I am perplexed by the endless supply of constantly growing flavor options. And I am always in the mood for sprinkles and a sugar cone.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my father. It was nice.

'Dirty Dancing', 'Grease', those were the movies that I used to watch over and over and over at my grandma's house when I was a little girl. I just remember watching them, and I always wanted to be Sandy, and I wanted to be Baby. I wanted to be the girl who's lifted in the dance, and she's beautiful and all those things.

My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.

I love to eat - Kit Kats or cookies-and-cream ice cream. I need sugar like five times a day.

When I was younger I used to want to own a sweet shop so I could eat sweets all day, but that dream died a long time ago.

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left!

As a little kid, I used to lock myself in my room and put on my Whitney Houston CD's and pretend to be her and try and hit every single note that she hit. I used to dream that one day that would be me.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

My mom didn't want us to go to the candy house, she didn't want us to go to the ice cream truck, she didn't want us to go to the... There was actually a donut truck, if that makes sense.

My sister and I were not allowed expensive clothes. We so badly wanted these Fila sneakers as kids, but my mother took us down to the flea market and got imitation ones. Look at the early Destiny's Child videos. You'll see.

People will say candy is recession-proof, and we're definitely seeing nostalgic candies coming about, and people want that sugar rush and that nostalgic happiness, like their childhood times.

I've bought every toy I ever wanted.

It wasn't that the teachers were bad. From what I can remember, they were pretty good. It was about the selection of books. It was about not seeing my young life reflected back to me: my family dynamics, the noise and complexities of my neighborhood, the things I loved, like ice cream trucks and Kool-Aid.

I've been wanting an ice cream truck forever.

Frozen bananas pureed in the food processor make a great fake ice cream.

While I do not have a sweet tooth, I am a fan of the dark chocolate ice cream at Baskin Robbins.