David Faustino Quotes

I had a sheltered childhood.

I led such a sheltered life I didn't go out with girls until I was almost four.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.

My mother never, ever told me about evilness. She only saw the beautiful things... she wanted to protect me from it.

You never watch movies the same as you do when you're a kid, ever again.

I think you miss out on a lot of stuff when you're so protected and isolated.

I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.

I was 9 years old, and this was - well, whenever it was, they paid a thousand bucks. I thought I was going to be rich forever! But I had no thought I would be an actor at that point.

I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works.

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.

I don't know, maybe I'm overly paranoid that they're going to be spoiled, but I want to keep them going as kids for as long as I can. I want to keep them innocent and free.

Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

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

I'm a little girl; no one wants to beat up on me.

People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.

When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.

Being young and extremely naive and coming from a very sheltered place has been a slight disadvantage to me because in Edinburgh, if you meet someone and they're nice, they just become your friend.

As a kid, you're so at the mercy of the people around you, the people raising you, your environment.

I grew up in a bubble. I just watched TV. I thought that's what you were supposed to do in life: sing and dance and act.

I was a choir boy my whole life.

I was raised to please people in authority, and I'd also come from a sheltered boarding school, so I was very naive and young for my years.