Aisha Tyler Quotes

I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.

It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.

I grew up in rural Pennsylvania, in a really rundown old house. I'd stay out till 8:30, 9:00 at night. Just blow in. My mom and dad never really cared much. It was okay. We were pretty free to roam. I mean, I had no concept of stopping play. It just didn't occur to anyone.

When my dad was still playing, he was away for five years on and off, so it just used to be me and my mum at home until my little brother came along when I was five.

Back then, as a kid, you could really just do whatever you wanted until your parents got home.

Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.

I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.

I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at the office the entire time.

I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up.

I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.

I was well indulged as a child by my relentlessly self-improving, working class parents to express myself.

I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.

My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and child is so important and precious. I have lasting memories of those stories because the experience was special.

I've got Pacman, Galaga, Galaxian, Daytona 500. Those are the games I grew up playing.

I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.

I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.

My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens... We roamed the countryside.

I was 10 years old, taking the train by myself to see Saturday matinees, something you'd never let a kid do now. I got very hooked on it.

When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.

My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad.

Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family.

Being a kid during the '80s, I feel I didn't really get the full experience.

I grew up at a time in Singapore - the '70s and '80s - where it was still possible to go riding around the island barefoot. And I was one of these kids that was just climbing trees and running around the neighbourhood.

As a kid, I was just led out in the morning to go spend my day with my friends and just run in the woods. And I'd only come home to eat or when I was thirsty.

When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.