Lee Bermejo Quotes

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me.

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

One of the great things about kids is they haven't heard a lot of the old jokes. You can get away with the corny ones.

In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.

I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd done parodies of 'Casablanca.'

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old.

I don't know if it's that my own childhood felt brief, or I grew up too fast, or I was pushing myself too much at a young age, but I do feel like I am clinging to a certain childlike quality in myself, as a result of a childhood that was sometimes complicated.

I remember, as a child, loving it when my mom laughed, but I was definitely not a class clown.

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.

I've never been more than 9 years old.

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

I remember being with my mum eating marmalade on toast watching 'Inspector Gadget,' 'Sharky and George,' 'The Pink Panther,' and 'Thundercats,' stuff like that. Those were the days - no idea how brutal the world is.

I've always liked older women. One sad thing about being my age is that there are no older women. I used to amuse my mother's friends even at five or six with witty turns of phrase. Somehow, I just knew how to be funny.

We all are so serious when we are younger.

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

It's like being a little kid again, parading around in a nightgown tucked into your underpants, believing it looks terrific.

I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.

Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.