I’ve had a lifelong love affair with makeup. When I was a little girl, I used to take my mother’s makeup and paint all of my dolls’ faces, and I even painted the dog’s face!
When I was a little girl, my father, who was a high-ranking officer, pilot, and an avionics specialist in the United States military, would hoist me up onto the elevator – the flight control surface located at the tail of his airplane. From up there I could get a glimpse of the world as he saw it.
When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.
It’s definitely a little bit ironic being known for my hair because, as a little girl, I had no idea what I was doing with it. I was insecure about it. I didn’t have as many references to curly girls, and I wanted to just fit in with all my other friends.
My favorite part on ‘Energy Fields,’ at the end of the track is a little girl laughing, and to me, it’s a child watching the world, her friends, and so-called grownup people, and the way they try to understand the world.
I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California.
Triple H is someone I’ve looked up to since I was a little girl.
I have a big forehead, and I got made fun of all time. When I was a little girl, they used to call me ‘five-head.’
Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day.
As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.
I was known as the little girl with the big voice.
At the end of the day, I’ve known since I was a little girl that I’m wired to make music.
If I can give that back to one little girl, much less thousands, and if they start on this journey because they saw me do this, then I did a good thing with my career and my life.
The Queen was really thrilled that we’d had a little girl, and when we came back here to Kensington, she was one of her first visitors.
I knew deep down that I was going to have my little girl, even if I had to raise her on my own, which is what I did.
When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.
I would love a career on Broadway. It’s always been my dream ever since I was a little girl and some of my biggest idols are on Broadway right now, like Melanie Moore and Ricky Ubeda.
I have known in my heart since I was a little girl that music was a major part of my life and always would be, but seeing others respond to the words I sing amazes me.
When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.
Ever since I was a little girl, I was always flipping all over my house.
When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a rock star. I wanted to be Steven Tyler. It was really strange, but as a little girl you think anything is possible, and it is. I never even thought about being an actress.
I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.
I’ve been obsessed with words since I was a little girl, and I am fortunate that each week as resident word expert on ‘Countdown’ I am ideally placed to quiz my guests in dictionary corner about the words and phrases they use.
We signed up my little girl to a modelling agency. This week she was doing a TV commercial for Aldi. She’s done JD, Next, Speedos. She enjoys it.
Coconut water is just the best for you; it’s always something we had in Brazil. Since I was a little girl, I’ve been drinking it.
I’ve always said people say on a dramatic show, ‘I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.’ In comedy, the best thing you can say is, ‘I think it’s funny.’
I do feel I’m responsible to carrying on the music. That’s what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, ‘When we are gone’ – when you’re a kid, you never think they’ll ever be gone – ‘you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.’
I was sent to ballet classes when I was a little girl. I wasn’t very good, but it’s that thing where little girls always try ballet, or whatever.
I was a very sad little girl.
When you’re a little girl, you kind of gravitate towards all of the princesses and things.
I was born with a love of animals, the same way I was born with brown hair. When I was a little girl in Rome, I always had pets, which I adored.
I’m very competitive. When I was, like, four, I would see a Shake ‘N Bake commercial and see a little girl on that and think, ‘I can do that. I might be better.’
Once, when I was 5 years old, a little girl who lived next door to my grandmother dared me to put on a muumuu and run across a nearby parking lot. So I did. I threw it on, hiked it up in one hand, and ran like hell. It felt amazing to be in a dress. But suddenly my grandmother appeared, a look of horror on her face.
As Mick Jagger will tell you, performing is an aerobic work-out. I’ve got the bass guitar, which is the heaviest of all the instruments, and I’m a little girl, in boiling-hot leather under the lights. You have to keep the fitness level up if you want to look good up there.
When I was a little girl, my family was extremely close, loving and really happy, and then overnight, things just became a nightmare, and instead of them becoming a nightmare and getting better, they became a nightmare and just kept getting worse.
Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.
When I was a little girl, I dreamt of winning grand slams and being No. 1 in the world. That dream stays the same as long as you’re doing the career that you’re on. I think it would be silly for that to change.
I enjoyed entertaining people since I was a little girl. There was nothing better than making people laugh. That, and the need to express myself in a safe environment.
As a little girl growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens, if anyone would’ve told me I’d have my own perfume one day, and be able to inspire young black girls everywhere, to go into Macy’s or Nordstrom’s and see their face staring back at them – I wouldn’t believe them.
When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for those times, for all the emotions I felt as a child – discovering novels, discovering Dickens, Balzac, or Dostoevsky. I wanted to be like those men.
Well, when I was a little girl we had 17 cats once. They all lived outside, and they kept having more kittens. My mom made us put little ribbons around each kitten’s neck, put them in a wagon, and go door-to-door around the neighborhood to try to give them away.
As a little girl in Arizona, none of the women in my family had a cultural connection with Girl Scouts, but the opportunity resonated with my mother as a platform that would allow me to excel in school.
My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.
If I was a boy, nobody would care that I worked out six, seven hours a day when I was 9 years old, no? Why were people always saying ‘poor little girl?’ I liked to work out and always did more than I was asked to.
As a little girl, I got to meet Audrey Hepburn, who took my face in her hands and suddenly make me want to be an actress.
When I was a little girl, I was a real, drippy bookworm. But when I went into fashion, I stopped reading.
My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, ‘No, it’s my baby.’
When your mother dies, you’re not a little girl any more.
Winning gold medals is incredible and obviously it’s what I want to do, but there’s something so special about having a little girl who has just lost her leg from cancer come up and tell me I’m her hero.
When I was a little girl, I remember carrying my orange UNICEF carton with me as I went Trick-or-Treating.
I am not perfect! When I was a little girl I thought I was ugly. My nose was too big for my face.
I had always been pegged for being feminine. People would always say, ‘Ooh, that’s a pretty little girl.’ They would talk about my eyelashes or that I was sensitive or that I was crying all the time. I didn’t want to play in the dirt outside with the boys.
My mother was my first and most important influence. When I was a little girl, she would take me shopping for pigments that flattered dark skin tones, mixing and playing until she’d created her ideal shade.
