Adults Quote by Becky G

I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and…

— Carrie Coon

I was very lucky to have been brought up in a household where my older brother and my father read out loud to me…

— Michael Rosen

Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people…

— Jacob Batalon

My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.

— Becky G

I was, like, a kooky kid, so people thought I was loud, but I really wasn't. I was kind of loud in outbursts. I…

— Grace Potter

It was a big step, to go from not talking to people to stepping on to a stage. That's when I felt the most…

— Harry Shum, Jr

I was such a dramatic child. I was always singing and dancing and stealing attention.

— Myha'la

Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel…

— Oscar Hijuelos

There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.

— Rudolf Nureyev

My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used…

— Don McLean

My sister was born a couple years after I was, and I realized that I wasn't getting enough attention, as much attention as I…

— Paul Rudd

At home, my parents were quite old, so the surrounding was of elder people. There was no noise. Reading books was encouraged; TV was…

— Kalki Koechlin