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When I was young I was one of those kids that got pulled onstage at a Green Day concert. That was pretty awesome.

— Matthew Healy

I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest…

— Sandra Bernhard

I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that…

— Jo Brand

I think one of the turning points for me was when my brother recorded the Neil Young MTV "Unplugged" performance from the TV. My…

— James Walsh

I was a stage-struck kid.

— George Cukor

My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was raising…

— Alan Thicke

By the time I was on TV, I was 19, but I played a kid, and they treated us like kids, so it's almost…

— Dan Schneider

I am the youngest of three boys, and I was super-informed by what the older ones were into.

— Kyle Mooney

I grew up being that kid backstage doing my math homework and my father made sure I knew from everybody in the cast to…

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing…

— Shakira

I've been doing music for a pretty long time, since I was a kid, and I must have been around 10 years old when…

— Stacey King

I started performing with the Boston Children's Opera when I was 5, and I stayed working with that group until I was about 12…

— Barrett Wilbert Weed