Michael Tubbs Quotes

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either.

I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

My dad would take me deer hunting with him, which was pretty traumatic - 'Bambi' was one of my favorite movies.

I remember driving home from a movie - it wasn't 'Halloween' but another one, maybe the original 'Omen' - and I dropped my friends off, and it was also broad daylight, and yet I was sure that, like, Damien was in the backseat or something like that.

I ran away. I kept running away. Almost once a week, I'd run away from those schools. They'd catch me. They'd bring me back to the school, beat me. And it was - it was terrible.

When I was a kid, I used to spend a lot of time at home because of the war. We couldn't go out and play or go to school. Boredom was a big part of my life.

I never wanted anything to do with the theatre as a child. I was dragged there under duress.

It was on a trip to Africa with my family - I was eight - and an angry baboon jumped through the window of our parked car. As my siblings escaped, my foot got stuck in the seat. I froze and watched it steal the whole contents of our car around me.

I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time.

My childhood was very beautiful in some ways and very disturbing in others.

I saw 'The Shining' in eighth grade. I watched it on VHS at a sleepover and was petrified, totally petrified. And I didn't really start to digest the movie properly and understand it from a filmmaking perspective until I got older. But it pretty much defined what it meant to be scared of a movie for me.

I am always running away from something.

The Wicked Witch of the West really scared me as a child.

I was scarred in 1977 by watching Jaws, and I've never got over it.

Yeah, my parents exposed me to horror movies when I was like 6 or 7. I mean exposed me in a good way, they didn't mean any harm.

I watched horror films growing up, and I would love watching them with friends. But then, I would spend the next week sleeping in my parents' room because I would be so scared.

Everyone has a goldfish when they're little.

Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like.

In some ways, in 'The Queen of the Night,' I'm writing about some of the experience that I had with 'Edinburgh' where I was entirely unable to speak about what had happened to me as a child, but I could read from the novel.

When I was little, I used to have nightmares about Godzilla walking out of the Great South Bay, because we had a fire alarm out where we lived that sounded just like his feet.

One of my pet peeves, one of my obsessions, is litter.