Famous Quotes & Sayings

The drive to want to know is innate in people. You cannot influence this. I think in contrast it is harmful if you push kids too far in a particular direction.

Christian Slater

I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.

Chris Ware

I was used to being disliked as a kid. Not that I didn't deserve it: I was a pretty sad and unappealing creature, and still am, I guess. It's sort of simplistic to think that one tries to make stuff that accounts for one's repulsiveness as a person, but there's some truth to it. So, when I read something unfavorable, I always take it deeply personally. It's as if my efforts have been in vain, and I should just quit.

Chris O'Dowd

I often talk to myself while walking down the street. I did it as a kid.

Chris Pratt

You can't help but change when you have a kid, and for me it was just a sense of I didn't feel like anything was missing in my life and it wasn't. It all came at just the right time, and now if I am absent from my son, I do feel like something is missing.

Chris Pine

I don't know any kid that's not afraid at some point going to bed with the lights off, totally. That's why they make nightlights.

Chris Pine

I had horrible acne when I was a kid. I felt like a complete and utter ne'er do well and someone who didn't fit in and wasn't handsome. So, I understand implicitly, and with a great amount of empathy, a man or human being that feels that way.

Chris Pine

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

Chris Lowell

I remember all the kids picking their chosen career paths and I was thinking, If I'm an actor I can be an astronaut and a policeman and a firefighter. At the time I was so young that I actually thought actors were all of those things.

Chris Kilham

In other parts of the world where I go, people are worried about, Jeez, you know, I really wanted to buy my kids shoes this year.

Chris Jericho

I remember when I was a kid that the only way to see Hulk Hogan wrestle was you'd have to go to the live shows. He was never on TV. So I thought "Why not do the same thing?"

Chris Jericho

I think a Chris Jericho triple DVD set is a great present. I don't what my kids are complaining about....

Faith Ford

One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it.

Miranda Lambert

In a way, I had such a normal life. But in another way, I saw things most kids don't see.

In a way, for the kids who have the most trouble, it's sort of like they can't let the past be the past.

Kate Winslet

I'm not a believer in hiding things from my kids because ultimately they are going to have questions - they feel things.

Marques Houston

I'm nice. I love people. I love kids; I want kids of my own.

Joshua Roman

I'm never sure how to rank these things, but I will say that it has been a dream of mine ever since I was a kid to play for the Queen of England. Preferably in the throne room.

Pierce Brosnan

I didn't think that and I didn't verbalize that to myself or within meetings that we ever had, but we wanted to make a hard-nosed, gritty, realistic spy thriller. Roger talked about using lenses. He shot hi-def, but using anamorphic lenses that he'd found from this warehouse. He was so thrilled with that. Him and Romain [Lacourbas] were just like kids in a toy store with their lenses.

Pierce Brosnan

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.

Phillip Noyce

Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!

Natsuo Kirino

Kids lose their trust in the parents they love, but still accept them, so they end up not trusting themselves anymore.

Natsuo Kirino

I decided then and there I was never going to have kids.

Naveen Jain

Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?

Jonah Goldberg

Despite what you may have been taught about Indians or Africans or ancient Celts, poor people are terrible stewards of their environment. For instance, if my kid were starving to death, I would happily feed her fresh panda.

Jon Stewart

No health care for poor kids? You know, I thought something like that was only done by cartoon villains. You're (Pres. Bush) slowly going from being Nixon to Mr. Burns.

Jon Stewart

We grew up in the good old days before kids had these damn computers and actually played outside.

Jon Stewart

The best way to describe my ability was to say that after the game the other kids would say to me, 'Way to try!'

Jon Stewart

I kid because I'm on basic cable.

Kate Voegele

I am definitely still the same kid that I was picking up the guitar at 15. But, I have definitely learned to be more flexible and roll with the punches. It's such an unpredictable business to be in and it's insane how things change so last minute.

Kate Walsh

Despite all those years of abusing your lungs, your kidneys, your liver the only thing you've had removed is your kids.

Katey Sagal

I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.

Kate Winslet

I ordinarily do one film a year and the rest of the time I'm at home with the kids. Even when I am working I'm still basically at home and with the kids. I've never left them to go to work.