Early Life Quotes

The USA won't be competitive or fair if we don't help more families give their kids the best possible start in life.

I read Michael Caine's biography. It was about him growing up

Right after I left drama school, I had a job.

I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.

I moved to L.A. when I was, like, 6 months old. I was born in Georgia 'cause my dad was going to college at the University of Georgia for music. Then we moved to the Valley, and my dad was a songwriter out here.

I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.

The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.

I don't think that we really know a whole lot about Barack Obama at all that you would really call distinctive.

I was a pretty bad person early in my life.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of me or my early life. It can all be condensed into a single sentence, and that sentence you will find in Gray's Elegy : "The short and simple annals of the poor." That's my life, and that's all you or anyone can make out of it.

I had a lot of space as a kid. My mother worked with human rights for the government, and my dad had a book publishing company, but they weren't really musical.

I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

I was born in Taiwan and came to the United States when I was 2.

I did my share of kid acting, like lots of us do. I even played King Herod when I was 6, but when I got to the end of my school period, that was it.

I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television.

I didn't grow up as child actor.

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

I started singing when I started talking.

I started doing movies when I was 14.

I first came to China as a child on a visit with my family in 1978.

I was into hip-hop, growing up early, so I loved Run DMC, LL Cool J, rappers.