Kids Quotes
I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.
I have four kids in a private school who have not yet entered college. Their tuition is what keeps me motivated. Life is simple sometimes.
I didn't know what the path was that I wanted to be as an actor, to be honest. I've been doing a lot of theater since I was a kid, so I was just sort of taking opportunities.
What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.
Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.
How am I supposed to be a mom to two kids, a wife and do a show every night? It's impossible!
When I had kids I sort of went into a hole for a few years and I think when I came out of that, I started to really become myself and know what works on me.
After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.
I can do short jobs. If I was still starring in three movies every year, there's no way that I'd be the person my kids want when they fall down.
My actual beauty routine is pretty simple, I try and have a facial once in a while. I'm not a huge products girl. I have so much going on with work and kids, I just use moisturiser basically.
Mornings and afternoons are my family time and I'm lucky that I can drop the kids off at school, I don't have to be at the office or anything.
Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.
I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.
Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.
I was always sort of a ham as a kid, just always wanting to entertain and to get people to laugh.
Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.
The craft Emmys are kind of the kids table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.
I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.
I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where youre going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.
I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.
You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practicing piano when I was a kid.
When I was a kid - and I don't know why, it's the most random thing - I wanted to be a speech therapist for little kids. I knew I wanted to do something with kids.
This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.
Kid, not everything in life can be summed up neatly in a paragraph. No book has all of the answers. Not even the really good ones. You have to find the answers yourself sometimes.
My husband is very supportive and is there for the kids, especially when I'm in projects such as The Color Purple.
I used to look out the window of my bedroom as a kid, and there were these stars that, in my mind, made a big "A" in the sky. I thought my destiny was to go there.
I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production.
My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I'm in concert, I get people now who bring their kids.
The traditional rules for having children are long gone. Some days I feel like the harder choice is to not have a kid.
Basically, my musical life is split between raving with drugged-up kids and reading obscure 75-year-old poetry, drinking very nice red wine with aged, graying men.
I think all artists secretly hope their kids might do something safer and straitlaced: maybe my daughter 'll be a banker.
Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.
I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I'm kind of target oriented.
The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.
I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.
When I was a kid looking at pictures of the Sphynx, and the Pyramids, and different tribes in Africa, all of that stuck with me, and I always wanted to see those things and meet those people.