Jonathan Scott Quotes

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

Neither my mom nor my dad ever bought me any comic books. Certainly not for Christmas. I suspect that doing so would have violated the Parents' Code.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.

My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.

I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.

My first celeb crush was Hanson. I loved all three of them. My sister and I would always fight, and whenever they would come on the TV, we would always give them a kiss on the TV. And I also had a crush on Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Every time he would come on the screen, he was like my boyfriend. I was such a nerd like that.

My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.

We weren't allowed to watch TV as kids.

Barbies were banned at our house, along with television other than PBS. As a kid, I found this horribly embarrassing.

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.

I think when I was 12, when, like, 'Titanic' and 'Romeo + Juliet' came out, my friends and I made our own Leonardo DiCaprio fan club. I definitely had a thing for him.

My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics. I came from a very strict background.

Our parents didn't let us watch a lot of television growing up. We had Disney on Sunday nights, and at 8:30, they were like, 'Turn it off! Go to bed!'

My mum was quite strict, so I was in a very strict household.

No one wants to be 13 and not able to eat their ice cream after dinner.

Growing up, I was restricted at home from playing video games until I reached university.

Yes, I come from a protective family. I wasn't even allowed to sleep over at a friend's place as a child.

I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.

My mum will never let me be anything but grounded.

My parents didn't allow rock music in the house. I actually didn't even know it existed until I was probably eleven years old.

My mom didn't let me eat sugar or candy until I was older.