There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

My childhood was appalling.

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.