Kids Quotes

I've always been an outsider kid. But I had always wanted to be in a group - growing up, I loved bands like the Cranberries and K's Choice.

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?

First, you've got to get the job. "Yeah, I can do it," I would say. When I was a kid, I could do anything. Lucky nobody ever asked me if I could fly a jet plane.

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

Well, I was a drama kid.

Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

She'd be one of those parents who left a kid behind at a rest stop, driving for miles before she noticed. We'd hear about her on the evening news.

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.

I'm a goner, a kid who stays up half the night trying to figure out the horror of the world and trying to survive it.

I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid.

When someone shows you a picture of their kids what they don't want to hear is Oh, yeah, I got pictures of your kid too.

I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.

I am everything and I am nothing. I am just kidding; I am not everything and nothing. That would be ridiculous. I am just everything.

Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and uncool.

I didn't raise my kids with the fear of God.

I went to see the 'Spider-Man' movies because my wife is a fan, and so are my kids.

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.

I'm in a no-win situation. If I have my kids in the show, I'm exploiting them. If I don't, people will think I'm not a hands-on mom.

I was an abstract expressionist before I had seen any abstract expressionist paintings. I started when I was a kid and continued just doing abstract stuff all through high school.

That kid's got an arm like Uncle Fester at an exhibition of Pre-Colombian... um, Christ, I lost it. I was going for something thick. So what's with the beard, Grizzly Fouts?

Take care of your kid's character, and everything will follow after that. Character is everything

I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.

I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much.

I would like my kids to follow their bliss.

It's a different story because guess what, the kid is only 28 years old, 28. He's not his dad, not his grandpa. He's 28 years old.

I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

I had a lot of fun with Val Kilmer. He's like a big kid.

I've been an actor since I was a kid.

Who cares about a kid from the Midwest writing pentameter? It's stupid.

I think if there's anything that can help fat kids get out of the house and anybody to move, it's a positive thing.

When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was to be a musician. I lost everything I had, but I just knew that someday I'd be able to tell the world to 'go big or go home.' The world needs to know.

As a kid, Punky Brewster was my idol. I wanted to dress like her and talk like her.

I've dreamed about producing since I was a kid.

I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.

I was a little bit chubby when I was a kid.

When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.

Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.

I have younger kids, and I adopted them late in life. They don't know these people [from Annie Hall] at all.

I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.

I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.

It started as a hobby when I was a kid, and I'm finishing as a hobby.

I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

My kids are so much better parent than I was.

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!