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When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on. (Aldiss Brian)
“It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.” (Aldiss Brian)
What beauty in childhood, what purity, what openness before one lets oneself be killed and cruelty recloses all. (Aldiss Brian)
“When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.” (Aldiss Brian)
My childhood was like Jim Garrey's character in The Truman Show, and because of it, I became accustomed to lots of noise and activity, bright lights in my face, people being able to watch me work - and a need to keep my environment neat and organized. (Aldiss Brian)
I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks. (Aldiss Brian)
I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though! (Aldiss Brian)
My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it. (Aldiss Brian)
I'm a little top heavy, so I have to pay attention to that area. I think it was from my years of swimming in school when I was a kid and it just overdeveloped my upper body. In fact, when I started modeling, my back was so developed, I could not fit into any dresses. (Aldiss Brian)
I was born in Texas but my dad found work in Arizona drilling water wells. So I was very young when I left Texas. (Aldiss Brian)
I was only 11, it wasn't like I had any bills to pay! (Aldiss Brian)
I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear what was going on. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to contribute in the best way I possibly could. (Aldiss Brian)
“I was a little kid, 10 or 12, ... I remember exactly ... transistor radios had just happened. When transistor radios happened, that was huge. And everybody had this little thing. And I was on a bus — I had been to the skating rink in Flushing [Queens, New York], near where I lived. And we were on the bus, and some kid had a transistor radio and it came over the radio. When 'Giant' came out, he was already gone. Yeah, that was a very big deal.” (Aldiss Brian)
I used to like Batman when I was a kid. I was about five years old and my mum had a 1960s belt - remember those wide belts - and I stuck packets of cigarettes to it and painted it yellow and that was my utility belt. And I had a sheet from crepe paper and a mask and that was it. (Aldiss Brian)
I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved. (Aldiss Brian)
I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game. (Aldiss Brian)
“There's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'” (Aldiss Brian)
Everybody keeps talking about whether they had a happy childhood or not. I can't remember being unhappy. I think I probably was. (Aldiss Brian)
“I know what it's like to have a tough childhood.” (Aldiss Brian)
It was a real honor to be able to work with someone like that that I've been watching since I was a kid. I mean, to play his brother left some people scratching their heads but something about it really worked. (Aldiss Brian)
“I decided to have a regular childhood and not pursue [acting] until I left school, although I wrote plays, directed plays, and got involved in theatre at school. When I left school I decided that's that I was going to pursue and gave it a crack.” (Aldiss Brian)
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