Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted Valentino to design my wedding dress. Valentino is the definition of timeless elegance. I don’t think there’s another couture house like it.
There is some little boy and some little girl out there, somewhere, who believe that when they put Under Armour on, they can do just a little bit more.
I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents built for me in the back yard. In the fort, I was neither ostracized nor ill at ease – I was self-reliant, brave, ingeniously surviving, if lost.
There are schools that have rules against afro puffs. They say it’s distracting. But nobody is saying that about a little girl who has ponytails.
When I graduated from high school, I made the decision to pursue my dance training in London, England. I was so scared at first, not knowing if this little girl from small town Canada could possibly make it with these highly trained London dancers.
My mother was the fourth generation of women to have worked with the Walker company. As a little girl, I would go to her office while she worked. She was a very capable woman.
I always wanted to be ambidextrous, ever since I was a little girl. I wanted to be able to use both hands, and I still use my left hand a lot.
I’ve always wanted a family since I was a little girl – a big family. I’m an only child, so I wanted, like, 10 kids… for sure.
Writing is powerful. Whether it’s a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.
I watched a little girl cover her face up and leave her hands in front of her mouth. I saw that girl after surgery, and she was smiling… that’s a great source of satisfaction.
Me and my brother just used to fight all the time; then my sister came along, and it was all about the little girl in the house. We’d always eat dinner together as a family.
Don’t treat me like a little girl.
I remember I had a copy of ‘David Copperfield’ that I lugged around at primary school. I started reading it when I was seven, and I was eight when I finished it. I read an awful lot as a little girl and played games and imagined lots of things.
When I was a little girl, and we would visit my grandmother whenever we were in D.C., she would always greet us at the door in elegant suits or gowns with matching pearls and earrings.
Since I travel so much, my perfect Sunday would start by waking up at home with my partner Inez. We’d have breakfast with our little girl Karmen, maybe in our garden.
If you’re a girl, you’re always Daddy’s little girl. You’re vulnerable, no matter how worldly or sophisticated or strong you’d become along the way. My dad Lionel let me know how proud he was, even as he kept me from being too big for my britches.
My grandmother on my mother’s side lived to nearly 100 years old, and she had seen Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show as a little girl and had come to Texas by covered wagon.
It’s very special having a new little girl.
When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang. We had to put a dance to a song, so I went to the 10-cent store one day and looked at all the sheet music. It was all laid out, and I picked ‘Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries.’
When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.
There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
When I was a little girl, I lived for modeling and fashion – I used to love, love, love modeling.
I was in line at a store and there was a little girl, she was standing in line next to me and some other girls had come up to me and recognized me from ‘Pretty Little Liars.’ When they walked away, this girl was staring at me, and her eyes got so big, and she started crying. It was, like, the cutest thing.
I love salsa. I use to take salsa classes when I was a little girl with my mom.
I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom’s family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car – it was the late sixties – and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.
To every little girl her father is a hero.
I had panic attacks as a little girl, and they were not subtle.
I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn’t tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.
When I was a little girl, I grew up in Connecticut. Ed and Lorraine Warren’s home was not too far from mine. ‘The Conjuring’ films are based on them; Ed and Lorraine were real people who made a museum in their home.
In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band – his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side – I told him, ‘If you lose me, you’re going to lose a good thing.’ And I went home and put that poem to music.
It’s especially important for my little girl to see her papa at work.
‘Conservative’ is a term that resonates differently with people. For us, Tae and I take that as being modest. The easiest way to put it is, if there’s a little girl in the audience, and she’s looking at us, I want her parents to feel comfortable with her admiring us and looking up to us.
I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate was Greek, so I guess I kind of had that Greek destiny.
My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl – I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.
My mom read French ‘Elle’ when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, ‘I want to work in fashion.’
When you’re a little girl, living your dreams, even tiny little stages in someone’s backyard are amazing.
When I was a little girl, whenever I would get sick, my mom would go and get stacks and stacks of VHS tapes from Blockbuster.
I don’t know a lot of people who achieve what they have really dreamed of as a little girl.
I’d fantasised about being married since I was a little girl and dressed up in my mum’s wedding dress.
As a kid, I wasn’t sure that I would ever get married – I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.
Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.
In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.
I’ve been obsessed with music since I was a little girl. I knew I wanted to be a singer when I was 9 years old.
I’ll always cling to these little girl dresses at vintage shops, and I can never wear them because they’re so tiny!
When I was a little girl – well, like, a teenager – I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.
I love my life. I’m really grateful. My biggest dream come true is my daughter. I’ve wanted her since I was a little girl.
I’m sort of obsessed with Harlem. Just its history. My father did the music for a play called ‘The Huey P. Newton Story,’ and they did a lot of work in Harlem. So as a little girl, I spent a lot of time in Harlem Library.
Everybody perceives me because of my career that I’m a movie star, or I’m this model, but I’m still the same person I was when I was a little girl.
Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had ‘pretty little girl singers’ opening for a male headliner.
I always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl.
I don’t think you ever think that you have made it but I did take a look at myself one day and think back to when I was a little girl and it was nice to know that I had at least made it this far.
I’ve always been interested in acting – since I was a little girl.
I’m just concerned that if I get older, people aren’t going to enjoy me as much as when I was younger, because I had a great voice for a little girl, but I mean, my voice can’t get any bigger when I’m older.
I was a gymnast as a little girl.
I do think moms should be given a break, all across the board. And I think that the most important thing is that you’re healthy. After I had my little girl, I wanted to be healthy for her and have a healthy body image so that she hopefully grows up to see that her self worth isn’t defined by how thin she is.
Everything has changed in my professional life; I get to live every dream – and more – that I ever wanted as a little girl, and as a teenager.
Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. You have to see how you’re carrying yourself because there’s a little girl. There’s not a little boy, there’s a little girl. I think I’m a little more overprotective.
I always dreamed when I was a little girl interested in animals that I would go live in Africa. Then I found out that you can look in your backyard, and you can do your own safari.
I knew what I wanted to do even when I was a little girl.
I like my jumpsuits. They’re easy to get about in, I can move a bit onstage, there’s nothing to tuck in, and I don’t look like a little girl.
