Ricky Schroder Quotes
I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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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.
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My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.
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The first album I ever bought with my own money was 'Ten.' Every single song reminds me of my childhood.
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I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.
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I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.
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I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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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.
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I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood.
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My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.
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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.
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The San Gabriel Valley, stretching from Pasadena to Pomona, is especially starved for open space. The valley has a rich array of ethnically diverse communities, but it also has some of the highest rates of childhood obesity and diabetes in the state.
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I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
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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.
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From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.
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I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.
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Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.
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The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked: needed to take them apart, make them better, and put them back together again.
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When I first started to beatbox on the microphone with the Get Fresh Crew, people were shocked. Some things are just supposed to happen and you have to roll with it.
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The traditional media does not have the kind of reporting muscle on the ground that it used to. I was very hopeful that the new digital media operations would pick up that slack, and a lot of them are trying and they're doing creative things. But none of them can scale appropriately to have enough journalistic firepower as well.
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I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.
