Kathryn Lasky Quotes

If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.

As a kid, I was just a kid. Average.

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

I really get a chance to be a normal kid.

I grew up as normally as any other kid. Between that small TV part I did at five and when I turned professional actor at 18, I stayed away from the limelight, so I was just like any typical kid who went to school.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.

A certain point came when I wanted to document growing-up adventures.

I would be lying if I said if I didn't miss out on what normal teenagers do, of course. But I don't need pity for that.

I feel like you're only young once.

I think being a kid is a wonderful thing, and I don't want to speed up that process any more.

We didn't have a TV until I was 12.

I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up.

I do have a regular childhood.

I was just a regular kid.

From age 7 to about 37, I had a normal life and not a very easy one.

I wasn't in any hurry to grow up and become this worldly person.

When people said schooldays were the best days of your life, I remember thinking: 'Tell me it's not true. This cannot be it.' I don't think my life has ever been that bad again. It hasn't always been easy but at least I have been free.

I will be able to look back on my teen years as spent on a television set just having the biggest bunch of fun.

I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

As people get older, we all know, you get married and you have a child and that becomes your family, but when you're 16 years old, especially, your family is your friends.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

It's always a really great feeling when I talk to people who watched 'Jett Jackson' because we were the same age. We were all kids. I was 13 when I started working on that show, and that was part of my childhood.

A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.

I never want to grow up.