I have memories of my childhood dreaming, drawing and always building like any other child.

I don't feel special … I was just full of energy and loved to learn.

If I have an unusual gift, it’s not that I draw particularly better than other people — I’ve never fooled myself about that. Rather it’s that I remember things other people don’t recall: the sounds and feelings and images — the emotional quality — of particular moments in childhood. Happily an essential part of myself — my dreaming life — still lives in the light of childhood.

I was a simple kid who was thrown into the wonderful world of show business. I've loved every moment.
These are my recollections. If you remember things differently, send me your version — but only if it's funnier.

We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it.

I do believe that every child is born with a God given talent. Have you found that thing, that ability that makes your child stand out? Go for it!

No, absolutely not, I have never been what one calls a gifted child, never a dreamer. I didn't think of making fantasies with the pencil on the paper, although at school we learned to draw and play music of course. But in those days the piano was actually what I preferred most.. .But until my eighteenth year I have been hesitating long between both [painting and playing piano]..

You know, I am one of those people where there wasn’t a moment growing up that I knew I wanted to be an actor—the truth was that I didn't know what I wanted to be at all. I wasn’t great at anything, I wasn’t an all-star athlete, great at playing the piano or the smartest kid in school but I liked creative things and watching Disney movies.

I'm not sure I was very good as a kid. It was a craft that I learned. However, I was very enthusiastic as a child and you get better over the years!

I loved theater and writing short stories as a child. I was always a creative and energetic child.

...dream BIG like a child!

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a tree doesn't make sense. You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow — you haven't got a handle on the rules when you're a child. We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experienced is a narrowing of the imagination.

When I was a small child I longed one day to become so famous that I did not have to hide how odd I was—how unlike other people. Few people really held my attention. It was birds and mammals, reptiles and insects that filled my dreams and eternally whetted my curiosity.

If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity