Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Groening

I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, 'Oh, that was research.'

Matt Groening

I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd done parodies of 'Casablanca.'

Matt Groening

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

Masa Takayama

I began cutting up fish when I was a little kid.

Marya Hornbacher

My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids.

Mary Grandpre

I think kids need to be allowed to be more creative and learn more about artists these days, so I'm all about that.

Mary J. Blige

When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.

Mary J. Blige

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

Mary J. Blige

As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday.

Mark Hall

We want to encourage people. You are not just another kid in the youth group or the lady on the third row. God has a purpose for every life.

Mark Haddon

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts

Marion Cotillard

I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.

Paul Haggis

We are manipulated by fear and the fear of others, and how we're often manipulated into doing things and voting in ways that are against our own best interest. Look at healthcare. People will tell you that healthcare is socialism and communism, and they're doing this while their wife needs an operation and their kid needs braces.

Paul Goodman

Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin.

Patty Murray

I want to make sure that all kids get a good education and enjoy what they learn

Patrick Lussier

I love making genre films. It's something I've really been attracted to since I was a kid, mostly because, as a kid, it was forbidden fruit.

Patrick J. Adams

I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

Patrick J. Adams

I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me, as a kid.

Pat Benatar

It's really hard to make records and concentrate and have a free mind, because I have this whole other life. If you don't have kids it's a whole other thing. I think you can be fifty and still have a rock and roll lifestyle; you can still perpetuate that.

Pat Burns

As for my career, I always said to my kids, 'You don't cry because it's over, you're happy because it happened.' That's the main thing. I'm very happy that it happened.

Pat Buchanan

I've gotten balanced coverage and broad coverage - all we could have asked. ... For heaven sakes, we kid about the liberal media, but every republican on earth does that.

Pat Conroy

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

Julia Ormond

I get very protective of kids on set. I always make a point of telling kids that anything that makes them feel unsafe or concerned they should just speak up about, and then keep an eye on times when that could present an issue.

Julia Ormond

I'd say that kids working on sets, even if it's Bambi, need to be allowed to be kids, even if they're working, not become little adults - that to me can be distorting to kids as an experience.

Julia Roberts

I want my kids to know when I'm pissed, when I'm happy and when I'm confounded,

Juan Williams

If you're a black kid, you're going to have hell in your life.

Judd Apatow

Nowadays, when kids decide they like an artist, they'll absorb everything that artist has ever done in a single night.

Judd Apatow

I still feel like a weird kid who is about to take a punch in the face. So, I think it's permanent.

Judd Apatow

I always felt as a kid that I was underappreciated, invisible or weird, but I've always secretly thought people would one day appreciate what is different about me. I'm always putting that message out there.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Kids play pretend. I think that kids can be the best actors.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think some of the best actors ever were little kids.

Little Richard

People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it was just a flash in the pan - the same thing that they always used to say about hip-hop.