Childhood quotes

“If you want to understand what it's like to be a child, you need to learn to play.”
Michael Welch - Artim

“- Reuben Feffer: You don't know what it was like for me growing up. I had a mother who made me afraid of everything!
- Polly Prince: Well, big deal, Reuben, my dad had a whole second family!
- Reuben Feffer: What?
- Polly Prince: Yeah, on Long Island. He had a wife, and kids, and a golden retriever!”
Ben Stiller - Reuben Feffer
Jennifer Aniston - Polly Prince

“You were never a boy. Not in this place.”

Kiefer Sutherland - Dr. Schreber

“I was special. The only colored kid in the class. I became sort of a mascot.”

Denzel Washington - Malcolm X

“Oh, it's awesome, Jellyman. The little dudes are just eggs, we leave 'em on a beach to hatch, and then, coo-coo-cachoo, they find their way back to the big ol' blue.”
Andrew Stanton - Crush

“- Mr. George Wilson: How come you ask so many questions?
- Dennis Mitchell: I've only been around for 5 years. There's a lot of stuff I don't know.”
Walter Matthau - Mr. George Wilson
Mason Gamble - Dennis Mitchell

“- Mel Feynman: Richie, how old are you?
- Young Richard: Six.
- Mel Feynman: Well, act your age.”
Peter Riegert - Mel Feynman
Jeffrey Force - Young Richard

“I haven't laughed that hard since I was a little girl. Thank you.”
Mike Myers - Dr. Evil

“- Andrew Largeman: There's a handful of normal kid things I kinda missed.
- Sam: There's a handful of normal kid things I kinda wish I'd missed.”
Zach Braff - Andrew Largeman
Natalie Portman - Sam

“When I was a kid, I used to wish for an ordinary family. Sometimes I still do. The only normal one is Noely, who has permanent brain damage from an illness when he was a baby. His body will grow up, but not his mind. He's the only one who doesn't drive me nuts.”
Jared Leto - Frankie Griffin

“Men are pretty much like children after all. Have you ever seen two kids wrestling in the yard? They push and they tussle and maybe they look like they're fighting... but they're not. They're really friends and everything is fun. Then pretty soon they play a little too rough. One of them gets mad. And in the end, somebody always gets hurt.”

Walter Huston - Doc Holliday

“When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six I did. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal. I was terrified, alone in that darkness. Slowly, daylight crept in through the bandages, and I could see. But something else had changed inside of me. That day I had my first headache.”
Sean Gullette - Maximillian Cohen

“You know it's funny what a young man recollects? 'Cause I don't remember bein' born. I don't recall what I got for my first Christmas and I don't know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world.”
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

“When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched.”
Monica Potter - Carin

“- Richard Vernon: What did you wanna be when you were young?
- Carl: When I was a kid, I wanted to be John Lennon.”
Paul Gleason - Richard Vernon
John Kapelos - Carl

“When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how my brothers and I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood. The happy childhood is hardly worth telling. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood. And worse still is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”
Andrew Bennett - Narrator

- Egg Stork: Let me tell you a little story. A story about a little fat kid who everybody made fun of, and nobody liked and he had a twin brother, and everybody said he never looked like his twin brother, but he wanted to...
- Ack Ack Raymond: Egg, where you that little boy?
- Egg Stork: No! No! But I used to beat the shit out him! "Why are you... (continue)(continue reading)
Bobcat Goldthwait - Egg Stork
Curtis Armstrong - Ack Ack Raymond

“When you're little, you like to think you know everything, but the last thing you really want is to know too much. What you really want is for grown-ups to make the world a safe place where dreams can come true and promises are never broken. And when you're little, it doesn't seem like a lot to ask.”
Dakota Fanning - Allie Keys

“Disappointment's going to be a big part of his life. He's a foot short for his age and he's cross-eyed.”
Walter Matthau - Mr. George Wilson

“What was your childhood like? Because sometimes things happen to us when we're very young that can hurt for many years after.”

Donna Hanover - Ruth Carter Stapleton

“- Dr. Leo Marvin: Why are you always wearing black? What is it with you and this death fixation?
- Sigmund 'Siggy' Marvin: Maybe I'm in mourning for my lost childhood.”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Dr. Leo Marvin
Charlie Korsmo - Sigmund 'Siggy' Marvin

- Young Ben Hanscom: [reading a paper] "He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts." That's all it says, over and over.
- Young Bill Denbrough: [stuttering heavily] My m-m-m-om g-gave me that to to to... st! To help with my st-st-st-stutter!
- Young Richie Tozier: No offense pal, it ain't workin'.
Brandon Crane - Young Ben Hanscom
Jonathan Brandis - Young Bill Denbrough
Harry Anderson - Young Richie Tozier

“You know, one day when I was a kid my father ran off with a goat.”
Woody Harrelson - Lou the Lamb

- Alison Bradbury: You'll never believe what I wanted to be when I was six.
- Walter "Gib" Gibson: A classics professor?
Daphne Zuniga - Alison Bradbury
John Cusack - Walter "Gib" Gibson

“What I remember most about my childhood is holding your hand. My wee hand in your big hand, and the smell of tobacco. I remember, I could smell the tobacco in the palm of your hand. When I want to feel happy, I try to remember the smell of tobacco.”

Daniel Day-Lewis - Gerry Conlon