Chris Tarrant Quotes

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.

My parents and my brothers and their wives are incredible and formed me as a person long before I got to Hollywood.

My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father.

Hobbies-wise, I love to carp fish. I like to be on the bank when I have some downtime.

My experience at Bournemouth made me who I am today.

I've fished since I was a teenager. It's one of the most fantastic activities, and there's so much to it. I just love every facet of it. I've never had a bad day fishing.

I went where the boys in the family went. We would shoot basketball. We would shoot guns. We'd play cards. We'd go fishing at the pond.

You know the thing I liked about fishing when I was 14 was being out with your mates mucking about, throwing bread around, getting a bit wet maybe.

What we recall as children is a version of what's happening around us.

I think anything that happens to you between the ages of zero to 18, and probably further on, has a lasting impact on you.

My grandfather, Arthur Baskerville, he played and still plays a little bit piano and trombone, and so when I was a kid, I always heard jazz around the house, but I also went to his gigs, whether it be a Saturday brunch in my hometown Columbus, Ohio. We'd go and hear him play with some of the local musicians.

I don't fish but had always wanted to after doing it as a kid.

I'm not an outdoorsman. I'd rather go see a movie. I don't want to hunt anything.

My grandpa was a country singer, and I started learning guitar from him, just at the kitchen table when I was younger, and I got really into it.

I spent the most impressionable years of my life with my grandparents, and they meant a lot to me, which is why I wanted them to come around with my decision of acting.

Little Wooster, Ohio and gargantuan Dallas, Texas formed the municipal cocktail of my life up till age 18. That drab, weird little town and the glitzy big one shaped me for sure.

In my case, both my grandmothers made a huge impact on my early childhood days. But, as I grew older, people rarely made an impact or influenced me.

I dyed my hair blonde when I was 13 because I wanted to be like my mum and my gran, who both have blonde hair.

That experience of being at Mt. St. Helen's was really formative. I don't even know if I'd be a photographer. It was an essential moment for me.

I feel that where I came from made me the actor that I am, and I wouldn't want to trade that with anything else.

I can't wait to be a grandfather.