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“When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.”

Men World Persons Kids Guy Delusion Strongest Runners

Author:Jack Black

“When I was a kid, I thought I would be an action-movie hero. I was like, "They're gonna be able to CGI my legs by that point." And then I realized that it was probably better if I stayed a little closer to who I actually am rather than trying to be Bruce Willis.”

Ifs Trying Littles Would Be Kids Able Action Hero Legs I Realized Action Movie Cgi

Author:Zach Anner

“When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, "This is one of the great ones."”

Thinking Men Looks Stills Kids Film Stars Men And Women These Days Coming Out Movie Star Great Ones Great Film

Author:Lindsay Lohan

“When I was a kid, I thought my dad was a little bit harsh with me at times. Sometimes I needed an arm around me instead of my dad telling me what I did wrong, but it obviously worked.”

Inspirational Littles Sometimes Kids Bits Arms Needed Dad Little Bit My Dad Harsh

Author:David Beckham

“When I was a kid, I thought that if everyone looked up the way I did then everyone would want to study the universe just like me - how could they not? This naiveté is what tells me that my interest was more a calling than a rational comparative assessment about what to be when I grew up.”

Ifs Way Want Kids Universe Interest Study Grew Calling Grew Up Like Me Rational Assessment

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.”

Knows World Way Has Beens Kids Myth Bunch Greek Zeus Athena Brady Greek Myth Brady Bunch

Author:George Saunders

“When I was a kid, I used to be way more nerdy about comic books and comic book characters. I still love them, but I don't collect anymore.”

Way Stills Book Character Kids Used Used To Be Comic Comic Book Nerdy Book Characters Comic Book Characters

Author:Zachary Levi

“When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my adult life. This doesn't always happen. All children have imagination, but for some it doesn't carry over.”

Children Happens Kids Used Spirit Imagination Adults My Family My Imagination

Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.”

Problem Humor Running Kids Funny Used Father Sports Animal Cutting Imagine Dad Bed My Dad Legs

Author:Lou Brock

“When I was a kid, I used to live in New York City. There was a guy named Michael Alig. He used to throw parties. And a couple of times, I even worked for him and his crew, and handed out fliers, and had my super-high shoes on, and wearing silver Saran Wrap around my head or something. It's a world I was really comfortable in: a world full of individuals. I think what I like about that world - besides my own personal interests - is the individualism, the investment in the self.”

Thinking World Self Kids Used Guy Individual Interest My Own Party Cities New York Couple Comfortable Investment Shoes Silver New York City Individualism Crew Wraps Personal Interest

Author:Jared Leto

“When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.”

Looks Kids Used Mirrors

Author:Donald Dunn

“When I was a kid, I used to play marbles. I know some of you think I've lost mine.”

Thinking Knows Play Kids Used Lost Mines Marble

Author:Jimy Williams

“When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.”

World Kind Feelings Kids Used Childhood Perception Hung Chaotic Hallucinations Apparitions Perception Of The World

Author:Jim Woodring

“When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and so surreal.”

Thinking Stills Kids Used Watches Cousin Surreal Hardy Laurels My Cousin Extremely Funny Laurel And Hardy

Author:David Chase

“When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues. I really thought I was supposed to be a boy. I used to sneak into my dad's room and put on a suit, drink a cocktail, and pretend to smoke a cigarette.”

Kids Wanted Used Rooms Boys Issues Dad Drink My Dad Gender Suits Smoke Supposed To Be Cigarette Cocktails Sneak Gender Issues

Author:Jane Lynch

“When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.”

Kids Wanted Drivers Racing Footballer Racing Driver

Author:Diego Della Valle

“When I was a kid, I wanted to be a scientist or an actress. My daughter really wants to be a scientist. I really want her to be a scientist, not an actress!”

Want Kids Wanted Daughter Scientist Actresses My Daughter

Author:Alysia Reiner

“When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star.”

Kids Wanted Stars Rocks Spy Rock Star Detectives

Author:Jill Sobule

“When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that's what I wanted to do.”

Play Kids Wanted School Actors Acting School Plays

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.”

Knows Enough Dream Kids Wanted Actors Acting Laughing Taken Stupid Serious Discipline Comic Realising Daniel Day Lewis

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“When I was a kid, I wanted to make my parents happy. I'd always say to them, "What do you want me to do? Do sports? Be rich? Be funny?" My mother would say, "Whatever we want from you, you already gave us - we wanted you to be alive, and you made it."”

Want Made Kids Wanted Mother Sports Parent Rich Alive Made It Want Me You Want Me Do You Want Me

Author:Etgar Keret

“When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.”

Kids Wanted Walks Rooms Hero Dad My Dad Back And Forth Living Room My Hero

Author:David Alan Grier

“When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.”

Book Hands Bigs Kids Fiction Fans Horror Harder Science Fiction Currents

Author:John Darnielle

“When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read books about our solar system; I had pictures of the Space Shuttle on my bedroom wall. And yes, I even went to Space Camp.”

Book Kids Bits Space Wall Program All Things Camps Bedroom Geek Nasa Solar System Space Program Space Shuttle Bedroom Wall Shuttle Program

Author:Simon Sinek

“When I was a kid, I was a combination of Elvis, Richard Pryor, and Harrison Ford from Indiana Jones. I didn't know the value of being able to make someone happy. What kid really understands that? It wasn't until I got into professional wrestling that I felt like, "Oh, it's not only incredibly gratifying to achieve something but also to make people happy".”

People Kids Values Achieve Wrestling

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“When I was a kid, I was a cowboy. I had a cap pistol, and I'd get up in the morning and strap it on before I got ready.”

Kids Morning Ready Get Up Cowboy Caps Pistols

Author:Morgan Freeman

“When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.”

People Kids Groups Conform Large Groups

Author:Sean Durkin

“When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.”

Kids

Author:Andy Dick

“When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.”

Kids Sports Football Basketball Baseball Athlete Soccer

Author:Scott Caan

“When I was a kid, I was always around boys. I was always trying to keep up with boys - skateboarding and snowboarding. If my brother was mowing the lawn, I had to mow the lawn. If my brother was using a hammer, I needed to use a hammer. I've always been a little bit of a feminist.”

Ifs Trying Littles Use Kids Bits Boys Brother Needed Little Bit Feminist My Brother Hammers Always Trying Lawns Skateboarding Snowboarding Mowing Mowing The Lawn

Author:Daria Werbowy

“When I was a kid, I was always enamored by - I appreciated the movies, and I was able to see them on VHS when I was a kid, but I was so enamored by the one-sheets and the posters. I had them in my room when I was a kid.”

Kids Able Rooms Sheets Appreciated Posters Enamored

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.”

Mind Kids Audience Listening Birth Imaginary Filmmaking Imaginary Friend

Author:Denis Villeneuve

“When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.”

Kids Tvs Genre

Author:Bong Joon-ho

“When I was a kid, I was at a bowling alley and I ran into a soda machine. I still have the scar on my right eyebrow obviously.”

Stills Kids Machines Ran Scar Eyebrows Alleys Soda Bowling Bowling Alleys

Author:Luke Perry

“When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.”

Soul Kids Black Following Music Soul

Author:Robert Plant

“When I was a kid, I was into psychological thrillers. When I was 12, my favorite movie was 'Thirteen.' I just really liked movies that showed an extreme range in acting. That's what made me want to become an actress.”

Want Made Kids Acting My Favorite Extremes Actresses Psychological Range Thrillers Thirteen Psychological Thrillers

Author:Leven Rambin

“When I was a kid, I was like everyone else: afraid of getting nuked. We had drills in school - Sweden was very close to the Soviet Union. There was definitely a lot of tension.”

Kids School Unions Tension Soviet Soviet Union Drills Sweden

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“When I was a kid, I was obsessed with different planets in the solar system, and I used to create, for every single planet, a different alien race with a certain kind of pet, a certain kind of house, a certain kind of water system, and everything.”

Kind Different Kids Used Certain House Water Race Planets Aliens Obsessed Pet Solar System

Author:James Gunn

“When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready!”

Littles Ideas Kids Order Fronts Color Ready Dinner Opening Boat Obsessed Restaurants Flags Guests Ponds Indiana Matching

Author:Greg Kinnear

“When I was a kid, I was obsessed with UFOs in particular, and the paranormal. I grew up in the '90s, which is when The X-Files was at its zenith.”

Kids Particular Grew Grew Up Obsessed Paranormal Files Ufo X Files Zenith

Author:Alex Hirsch

“When I was a kid, I was playing in various bands - amateur bands, garage bands, weekend bands, you name it, around the area. At some point, I just wanted to try the whole 'Beatle tribute band' thing, so I found a local band that was doing that.”

Trying Whole Kids Wanted Found Names Band Areas Various Locals Weekend Tribute Garage

Author:Steve Landes

“When I was a kid, I was super shy.”

Kids Shy

Author:Rachel Dratch

“When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.”

Years Kids Girl Wish Boys Happened Streets Rocks Brother Baby Cousin Baby Girl Older Sister

Author:Wally Lamb

“When I was a kid, I was taken to something called Telenews in Cleveland by my best friend's father. My own father was gone by the time I was 5, I think, but this man would take us to Telenews at the end of World War II, and we'd watch all these newsreels. I'd seen real stuff. That kind of stuck in my mind.”

Thinking Men World Mind Kind War Real Ends Kids Father Stuff My Own Watches Gone Taken Stuck War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I My Best Friend Cleveland Real Stuff

Author:Wes Craven

“When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.”

People Art Kids Rocks Evidence Proof Queens Rock N Roll

Author:Axl Rose

“When I was a kid, I was told that I had a biological father, but that he didn't have much importance. I had an adoptive father who was present, who loved me, who was up to the task. And he was. So, I didn't question that story, until I was thirty-two, and suddenly realized that I was curious, that he did have something to do with me.”

Two Stories Kids Father Tasks Importance Curious Thirty Biological Fathers

Author:Melissa Febos

“When I was a kid, I was trendier. I'd wear anything. I was in love beads and platforms...”

Kids Platforms Beads

Author:Michael Kors

“When I was a kid, I was very much interested in magic and science. They fueled interest in one another.”

Kids Interest Magic

Author:Larry Wilmore

“When I was a kid, I was watching the movies my parents wanted to watch. I came from a working class family, not specifically educated, so we were watching popular movies. My dad liked cowboy movies, so we were watching cowboy movies. Some of them were amazing. It’s a genre of movie I like very much.”

Kids Wanted Parent Class Watches Dad My Dad Educated Genre Working Class Cowboy Cowboy Movie Popular Movie

Author:Olivier Martinez

“When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.”

Firsts Kids Zero Houston Pluto Ground Zero

Author:Leif Garrett

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