Katherine Waterston Quotes

I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

Katherine Waterston

• Childhood

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• I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Childhood
  • Acting
  • Pride

• The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Career
  • Parents
  • Education

• I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Water
  • Childhood
  • Sea

• I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Great
  • Dream
  • Childhood

• The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
  • Childhood
  • Blessing

• My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Parents
  • Brother

• Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Comedy
  • Childhood
  • Influence

• I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Think
  • Childhood

• I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Childhood
  • First
  • Without

• I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Life
  • Me
  • Childhood

• When I saw Bryan Singer's 'Usual Suspects,' I knew how it was going to end because I'd seen 'Scary Movie.' Which is not the preferred order of things, but that's how it is because my childhood was 'Home Alone,' 'Matilda,' 'Batman Returns,' 'Jumanji,' 'Secret Garden,' 'Jack,' 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Titanic.' Only family films from the '90s.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Family
  • Home
  • Movie

• Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Up
  • Good
  • Experience

• My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Career
  • Play

• I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Family
  • Mother

• I have never - I have never let go of my childhood contacts. My best friends from childhood are still my best friends.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Childhood

• That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Reality

• An abused childhood affects the entire life... It affects every facet of the life.

  

  Vanity
  • Life
  • Childhood
  • Affects

• For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Done

• At first, when I received the script for the 'Archie' show, I was immediately turned off.

  

  Cole Sprouse

• I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Model

• I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Live

• After the heavily politicized 2007 Iran NIE, many of us in Congress found it hard to take some intelligence analysis at face value.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Value

• The greatest virtue is not in forgiving those who apologize, or in being kind to those who are kind to you. The biggest virtue is in forgiving even those who never apologize, and in being kind to even those who are not kind to you.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed

• I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

  

  Katherine Waterston
  • Childhood