Grant Gustin Quotes

My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.

My mother really pushed me when I was young. I didn't want to go to dance classes, but for some reason, when I was there, I didn't want to come back.

I used to sing in a choir when I was young. My mom forced me hardbody. I was hella young, like 5 years old.

Subconsciously, there was always an actor inside me. But while growing up, it was a very normal childhood because my dad never got films to the dining table and never discussed films.

My mom was a dance teacher, so she put me in dance school when I was a kid. I did everything. I used to take ballet.

Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.

We didn't get to see a lot of movies in my house growing up, so the first time I got to go to the movies - I think it was 'E.T.' - I was like, 'Oh my God, somebody else gets my imagination!'

As a child, I perceived my mother as an old woman.

As a child, all I knew was that people kept asking me to sing, and because I liked to please, I would sing. It wasn't until my dad told me that my singing made him happy that I began to think my voice might be good.

I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager.

When I was about five, I started dancing - like, tap and ballet - in one little class.

My mum sent me to ballet from the age of five, not because I was that into it but because I had really knock knees.

Each day the thought crosses my mind that when they get older, my kids are going to look back and think about how they were raised. I know they will have a lot of questions about things that may not make sense because they were raised so unconventionally.

I'm the youngest of four. I have two older sisters and an older brother and was raised by a single mother. Basically, my household was just full of life. Everything was lit all the time.

She was just Ma, and I didn't grow up in some kind of acting dynasty: Orson Welles didn't come round and give me a piggyback; Vivien Leigh never read me a bedtime story. It was just my mum and our housekeeper, whom I adored, and after that, it was boarding school.

I was pampered by all my father's directors and producers during childhood. But at home, my father made sure I led a normal life.

I think the first music I ever heard was Abba. I took my mother's cassette recorder and went into the bushes to listen to Abba when I was four or five-years-old.

When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.

My mom made me watch 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was about 7 years old. When I was younger, I hated action movies and pretty much anything loud. So when she put it on, I covered my ears and ran out of the room.

I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed, you know?

I was never plunked in front of an idiot box because my parents had other things to do.

St. Lucia was a place were we used to go on vacation - not every year, but we went there a couple of times. I remember the last time that I went there, I was really small, and the only memory that I have is that my dad was going swimming or fishing one day - and I really, really wanted to go - but I was too young.

I have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.

I grew up as the youngest child in a big, noisy family, and there was always someone around to hang out with.

We didn't even have a T.V. in my house until I was 13. My dad called it the 'idiot box.'