Greg Cipes Quotes

Ninja Turtles taught me how to meditate. They got me into martial arts. They helped make me who I am today.

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

When I was a kid, I never felt that what I was drawing really represented me; it was just something I enjoyed.

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.

Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.

My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.

I was big time into Barbie. I also had Wonder Woman Underoos that I really liked. I actually wore them as an outfit to school. As I said, I was a strange child.

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.

I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'

In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.

When I was about 8, I used to go into one of the rooms in the mansion, and I would open a magazine like the 'Ladies Home Journal,' and I would see these characters on the pages and then become them, talking back and forth.

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

When I was 8 years old, I saw 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.

I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.

When I was growing up, I used to watch 'Power Rangers' and 'Ninja Turtles.' It seemed like every movie had someone doing martial arts in it, so I would go around punching and kicking trees.

When we were kids, I know when I saw 'Pinocchio' it had a huge impact. I was ten years old, and I went home, and I was drawing the characters.

It's inherently a part of my childhood and my development as a person and an artist, this childlike feeling knowing that something is missing but not quite knowing how to fix it. I'm always drawing on it.

I first read 'Tom Sawyer' when I was in 8th grade, 13 years old. I realised since that Mark Twain just bottled what it felt like to be a child.

The most autobiographical thing I've ever written is my second novel, called 'An Ocean in Iowa.' That is pretty close to my childhood.

When I was four I joined a group of girls who were talking about their party dresses. I thought they were imagining, so I imagined a fantastic pink velvet dress with lots of jewels. But they were simply describing what they actually wore, and they had utter contempt for my obvious fiction. After that, I never joined a group again.