Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.

I had a babysitter when I was 12 or younger. I had a big crush on her. She was really spontaneous and fun and loved to make us sing and dance and paint. She was the coolest person in the world. I guess I did have my young love. I did everything to impress her. Everything possible. It was just ridiculous.

When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.

When I was about 7, I fancied Anna Chlumsky; the girl from 'My Girl.'

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you're in fifth grade, it becomes your whole world. It's like being underwater; everything is different.

One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.

My first crush was Spock. I thought it didn't get any better than Spock.

I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.

My first-ever concert was the Barney concert when I was, like, six. My mum took me because I was obsessed with Barney. Barney was actually my first crush... He's, like, literally better than all the guys in the whole world.

I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss.

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

Charlie Brown's good. I always had a little crush on that Lucy. I thought she was kind of a hot little brunette.

When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin.

Robert Wagner was my greatest crush.

I remember being with my mum eating marmalade on toast watching 'Inspector Gadget,' 'Sharky and George,' 'The Pink Panther,' and 'Thundercats,' stuff like that. Those were the days - no idea how brutal the world is.

Falling head over heels in love with women was a habit I thought I'd thoroughly grown out of in middle school, when a group of about five girls and I color-coordinated our outfits and spent weekends and even some weeknights sprawled out in each others bedrooms.

When we grow up, we tend to forget our first crush, first love, as we move along. Only when you see something on TV or hear someone say something do you go back to those moments.

I was deeply in love with David Soul from 'Starsky & Hutch' when I was 11 or 12. I used to borrow my mum's peach nighty and put some lipstick on and say I was going on a date with him. I made this little purse and would carry a picture of him in it and say he was my boyfriend.

Shahid Kapoor is my childhood crush

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.

Another thing I recall was falling in love with Shirley Temple when I was nine or ten.

The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise- Into growth and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.