Peter Billingsley Quotes

I have memories of the time when I was younger and when I believed in Santa Claus, which was the best part of Christmas. Back then, I wrote to Santa every year, hoping that my mom would post the letter with a stamp to the North Pole!

When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.

My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.

I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.

Christmases past, my sister Carolyn and I - we'd been waiting for Santa all night. Nothing! Where is this man?

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being an elf.

When I was younger - it might be a romantic idea - I always thought I might go crazy.

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

I wanted to be a part of the Disney history.

I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.

When I was younger I used to want to own a sweet shop so I could eat sweets all day, but that dream died a long time ago.

In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

I probably revisit in my work the moment at which I realised that dreams couldn't be reality.

My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character.

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.

When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

I'm the kid who wanted to grow up and be Bugs Bunny. I was very, very disappointed when I realized I couldn't grow up and be a cartoon character.

I wanted to own a junk yard as a child, you know. I used to smash cars and think, 'Oh, my God, there's been an accident.' My mother would take me to junk yards, and I look back on that and I think, 'Wow, that was really loving.'

I was always the kid who wanted Christmas to not come, because I realized at a pretty early age that no matter what you got, there's always a little bit of a letdown. It's like, 'Oh, gee, I wanted two ponies, not one.'