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“As a kid, I loved to play centerfield. I loved to make diving catches.”

“As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.”

Trying Has Beens Might Kids Used Fun Sports Tree Training Balls Golf Preparation Might Have Been Psycho Golf Ball

Author:Tiger Woods

“As a kid, I never thought I saw myself as unusual. I always thought that lots of people could do what I did. More and more I realized I was wrong.”

People Kids Saws I Realized Unusual

Author:Julius Peppers

“As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.”

Way Kids Social Actresses Shy Disorder Academic

Author:Rebel Wilson

“As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.”

Kids

Author:Julius Erving

“As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.”

Kids Share Streets Football Nfl Vacant

Author:Barry Sanders

“As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn't hit each other into cars.”

Kids Share Streets Car Football Vacant Touch Football

Author:Barry Sanders

“As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.”

Kids Past Used Lifetime Crap Jane

Author:Romola Garai

“As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.”

People Kind Shows Dream Kids Wanted Grows My Own Poverty Growing Up Gave Up

Author:Cristela Alonzo

“As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on.”

Hands Kids Remember

Author:Jonathan Ive

“As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.”

Want Writing Said Real Kids Able Opportunity Wow

Author:Cliff Burton

“As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.”

Kids Moving Thrust

Author:James Ellroy

Source: Conversations with James Ellroy

“As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.”

Thinking World Needs Kind Persons Dream Kids Secret Growing Up Growing Exciting Awful Pretending Secret Life Dream World

Author:Jonathan Rhys Meyers

“As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.”

Writing Book Kids Summer Reports Bent

Author:Diablo Cody

“As a kid, I succumbed to peer pressure; I created an image of myself that was not true. But that belief system ended with the death of a close friend. It was then that I reached out for help from my father. It wasn't the teachings of The Four Agreements exactly, it was just my father's teachings in general. And because of this, I am grateful to continue my family's legacy. In this way, I say "thank you" to my family and teachers before me.”

“As a kid, I think I rearranged the rooms of almost every house on the block.”

Thinking Kids House Rooms Block

Author:Nate Berkus

“As a kid, I think I wanted to be the on-set dresser for 'Charlie's Angels'. My goals weren't lofty. No. I just wanted to someday quit my paper round and that was about it.”

Thinking Kids Wanted Goal Paper Angel Rounds Quitting Someday Charlie Lofty Dressers Charlie's Angels

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing things.”

People Thinking Kids Energetic

Author:Noel Wells

“As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.”

Kids Perfect Charming Denver

Author:Sandra Lee

“As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny.”

Thinking Want Persons Kids Wanted Serious Serious Person

Author:Noah Baumbach

“As a kid, I used to be equal parts drawn to and horrified of the circus. They would have these beautiful canvas posters for Lobster Boy, bearded women, and this and that.”

Kids Beautiful Used Boys Equal Used To Be Canvas Circus Posters Lobster

Author:Mitch Glazer

“As a kid, I used to come to our offices and play under the desks of people I now work with, or who work for me. I would come in and play with fabrics and make little clothes for my Snoopy. People here feel like family. But if I couldn't make a difference, I wouldn't be here. My father wouldn't want me to be here.”

People Ifs Want Feels Littles Play Kids Used Father Differences Office Clothes Making A Difference Want Me Fabric Desks Like Family Snoopy

Author:David Lauren

“As a kid, I used to run around our garden waving a stick and pretending to be a million different people. That's why I became an actor, really.”

People Different Running Kids Used Actors Millions Garden Sticks Pretending Different Peoples

Author:Douglas Booth

“As a kid, I wanted to be a boy because I equated that with strength. There's a problem with that. It's only growing into my own womanhood that I realize how warped that is that I was attributing strength to male qualities.”

Problem Kids Wanted Realizing My Own Quality Boys Growing Males Womanhood

Author:Tatiana Maslany

“As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always played up against older age groups.”

Kids Age Wanted Player Groups Tennis Academy Tennis Player

Author:Matt Kuchar

“As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. And my own passion was that I wanted to be a film director. I realized that being an astronaut was not going to be an option, so I said, "Well, I'm going to be a director and do films in space."”

Wells Said Kids Wanted Film Passion My Own Space Directors I Realized Astronaut Film Directors

Author:Alfonso Cuaron

“As a kid, I wanted to be an inventor and realizing that being an artist is like being an inventor because you create problems for yourself and you solve them and you create things that weren't there before. That's awfully simplified, but that's how it is.”

Problem Kids Artist Realizing Inventor Being An Artist

Author:Michael C. McMillen

“As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.”

Wells Bigs Kids Fans Comic

Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“As a kid, I was a big reader. Books and theater were the way I understood the world, and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life. I would read all night. My mom would come into my room and tell me I had to go to sleep, so I would hide books under my bed. At first I had a tough time getting through novels, so I read plays, because a play is generally shorter and has all those tools for getting people hooked early on.”

People World Book Kids Night Sleep Novel Mom Morality Tough My Mom Good Life Tough Times Going To Sleep

Author:Greta Gerwig

“As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.”

Kids Sides Dark Lovers Dark Side Hitchcock

Author:Teller

“As a kid, I was a huge fan of movies and acting. My mom was in the sort of community theater, and I always hung around down there, and I was a massive fan of everything I'm kind of involved in now. But fairly ordinary and cheeky.”

Kind Kids Community Acting Fans Huge Mom Involved Ordinary Theater My Mom Massive Hung Cheeky

Author:Simon Pegg

“As a kid, I was a little self-conscious because I was so much taller than everyone. A bad habit of mine used to be slouching. Eventually, I realized my height was something I couldn't control, so I might as well accept it. I've certainly turned it into a positive, because without my height I probably wouldn't be as good of a tennis player. It's a gift, and I've made something of it.”

Wells Littles Made Self Might Kids Used Accepting Player Mines Habit Conscious I Realized Used To Be Height Tennis Self Conscious Bad Habits Tennis Player

Author:John Isner

“As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter.”

Littles Kids Sprinters

Author:Mary Lou Retton

“As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.”

Persons Art Kids Sports Weak Martial Arts Opinionated Playing Sports

Author:Caity Lotz

“As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.”

Kind Helping Kids Father House Building Painting Projects Built Painter Cinema Shops Building Things

Author:David Lynch

“As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.”

Art Hands Kids Games Stuff Interesting Computer Enjoyed Programming Realised Keyboards Computer Games Modifying Interesting Stuff

Author:Aaron Koblin

“As a kid, I was always into clothes, but I didn't have the money to buy them. When I'd get my brothers' hand-me-downs, there was an energy in me that made me say, "I want to get my own things, to make my own statement." Somewhere along the line, that energy - coupled with my exposure, through movies, to a world I hadn't known - turned into something.”

World Kids Energy

Author:Ralph Lauren

“As a kid, I was always listening to music. I would just go in to my room and put on an album, read the lyrics, and just spend hours and hours in there. Plus, my sister Laurie played piano (in fact she taught me my first few notes) so music was always around one way or another.”

Way Firsts Facts Kids Hours Rooms Taught Listening Notes Albums One Way Piano Plus My Sister Listening To Music

Author:Andrew Hollander

“As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.”

Men Want Two Running Kids Hate Middle Football He Man I Hate Mad Stuck Cooks Kitchen Thanksgiving Noticing Stuck In The Middle Watching Football

Author:Beth Ditto

“As a kid, I was always sick. I had pneumonia, I had really severe allergies. And it wasn't until I got older, that I realized some of that was caused by toxins in things like detergent. That made me crazy, because it's supposed to help get things clean!”

Made Helping Kids Crazy Sick Clean I Realized Severe Allergies Toxins Pneumonia

Author:Jessica Alba

“As a kid, I was always the jokester. I was telling stories at dinner and trying to make people laugh. I guess I've always just been naturally inclined to tell stories.”

People Trying Stories Kids Laughing Dinner Making People Laugh Telling Stories

Author:Wyck Godfrey

“As a kid, I was fortunate that we grew up near a children's theater, with all different classes and things; so as a kid I took classes there and as I got into high school I did all the community theater stuff. Then I came to college here in New York, going to Marymount Manhattan, and studied acting there. But most of the training I got was from working. Working with really great people.”

People Children Different Kids School Stuff Community Acting Class New York College Grew Grew Up Training High School Theater Fortunate Really Great Great People

Author:Andrew Rannells

“As a kid, I was getting information in areas that no one else was getting. I think that was one of the reasons my mother didn't want me to go to school too soon. Because I would be beaten to a pulp, you know, if I walked down the street and said there was no such thing as gravity.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Said Reason Would Be Kids School Mother Streets Information Areas Want Me Gravity Beaten Pulp

Author:Paul Laffoley

“As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.”

Art Kids Wanted Next Martial Arts Vans Van Damme

Author:Chris Daughtry

“As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday.”

Kids Someday

Author:Mary J. Blige

“As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.”

Thinking Play Kids School Lost Acting Magic Band High School Guitar Puzzles Juniors Junior High High School Junior

Author:Michael J. Fox

“As a kid, I was mischievous, necessarily, but I always wanted to do adventurous stuff.”

Kids Wanted Stuff Adventurous Mischievous

Author:Tyler Blackburn

“As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.”

Stories Kids Myth Obsessed Legends Haunting Gothic

Author:Nathan Parsons

“As a kid, I was obsessed with the Who. They were the most important band to me. Songs like "I'm One" helped me get through high school.”

Important Kids School Song Band High School Obsessed

Author:Judd Apatow

“As a kid, I was searching for my tribe of other people who saw through the matrix. Even as a kid I could never buy into the status quo. I just thought it was a joke; I couldn't believe other people weren't laughing at it.”

People Believe Kids Laughing Saws Jokes Tribes Status Quo

Author:RuPaul

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