William Joyce Quotes

I was an average kid who had his wimpy moments.

Growing up, I was always the small guy.

I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.

In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about being 7 in a world of people who are bigger than you, and more dangerous, and stepping into territory that you don't entirely understand.

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

Believe it or not, I was a pretty shy youngster growing up.

Toddlerhood, I just knew I was the farthest thing from a man. I've known that my whole life.

I remember what it was like at age 6, not really understanding what was going on around me, but having all these grown-up thoughts running through my head about what I was facing, why this was happening.

I remember being a kid and always feeling a little different than all my friends.

Growing up in Stockton wasn't all doom and gloom.

I had a very wonderful growing up. I was surrounded by loving people.

I didn't feel as though, when I was a child, I had much control of my environment. I felt powerless. And that gave me a sense of predictability.

As a kid I could be in New Lodge in a minute. I'd go down our street, turn right and I was there.

My childhood memories are amazing; I had freedom in every way - but I see everything from a different perspective now that I live outside.

As a kid, you don't know what's going on at the time. But once you get older, you start to realize it.

Somebody accumulates a lot of muscle and think himself to be a big man. But this big man is only big when all around him are smaller.

When I got to Alabama, I was really small.

It's very bizarre to me to now really be a grown-up. I kind of can't believe that I'm there because I certainly don't feel that way a lot of the time.

It's like I somehow snuck a seat at the grown-up table. I'm just trying not to get caught.

I grew up in a lot of stage managers' booths, memorizing the lines. I'm sure I was the most annoying child in existence.

I felt like a typical kid growing up, and Lawnside is a nice town with a huge historical significance.

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

When I was a kid, I had two nightmares: one was nuclear war, and the other was that my parents would get a divorce; and when I was twenty, they split up, and I just felt like I needed to confront all those things that scared me as a kid - entering young adulthood and trying to have relationships.

I've gone through several cycles. When I was little, I was the cute kid with missing teeth and funny one-liners. Then I moved on to be the young guy who wanted to be a grownup.