Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandi Carlile

I didn't get bullied any more than anybody else. I think I got bullied more for being poor than being gay. But no more than any other kid. And I'm sure that I did my fair share of picking on other kids, too. We're all humans.

Ultimately, the competitiveness of your kids ought to prompt people into action.

Don Cheadle

I don't know what would be antithetical to do on the other side, maybe a Tyler Perry movie or something. No, there are very few comedies that live in between that. Or you're doing some kid thing like a Jim Carrey movie with animated something that's like that. Yeah, I've wanted to do them. I like doing them. I did Talk to Me. That was pretty much a comedy.

Don Cheadle

I think that it's much more important to do than to say. And you learn that a lot from your kids, who are watching you, you know?

DJ Quik

I look down and see little kids in the audience and I'm like, "Oh man, I hope I'm not poisoning these kids!"

DJ Quik

I'm 14 years in the game, ... There's some kids that weren't even born when my first album came out. I wanted to draw a timeline between my old stuff and my new stuff and bridge it to where there's a level of continuity.

Djimon Hounsou

The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

Dianne Wiest

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.

Dianne Wiest

I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

Dexter Scott King

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

Dhirubhai Ambani

I, as school kid, was a member of the Civil Guard, something like today's NCC. We had to salute our officers who went round in jeeps. So I thought one day I will also ride in a jeep and somebody else will salute me.

Dhani Harrison

In almost any profession, even if you're the kid of an actor, people are very supportive and want to see the next generation.

David A. Stewart

I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.

David A. Siegel

I have enough money for the rest of my life and enough to leave a good inheritance for our kids.

Dave Foley

I think we carry around the idea of being a Kid in the Hall as part of our identity. It's a big part of how we see ourselves now.

Dave Chappelle

My kids look actually happy. And I learned early on that perfectionism and parenthood is a toxic combination for everybody involved. In other words, so many things can flourish naturally. All you gotta do is make sure the soil's right. I view myself more like a guide than a ruler.

Dave Chappelle

No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone... you answer it.

David LaChapelle

What's shocking is cruelty and torture, and that's become our entertainment. Kids can play violent video games, but God forbid they look at a naked woman. That's pornography, that's perverse. No!

David Krumholtz

The play I was doing [on a Broadway ], I was playing an obnoxious, outspoken kid, so [the director James Lapine ] saw me do the play, and he was like, "That's what I'm looking for." I tested for the part [in Life With Mikey]. Back then, I used to do screen tests. I mean, they still do every once in awhile, but it was a big deal.

David Krumholtz

That's basically what I did every weekend when I was a kid, just go and see two movies per weekend.

David Guetta

Kids listen to everything on the Internet.

David Guetta

You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.

David Crystal

Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

David Cross

It's not that I don't have kids for some personal reason outside of, I just haven't had kids. And I haven't met someone who wanted to, as far as I know. And perhaps I'm attracted to women who aren't ready to make that commitment just yet.

David Cross

Most people who have kids are, "Hey, I want another me. I like me. I'm pretty cool, and I've got really great ideas, and the way I think is the right way to think. Let's put another one of me out there."

Dave Barry

There's only one way kids will wear helmets, and that's if their parents are nagging them to. They will never wear helmets because some state passes a law requiring it.

Caitlin Kittredge

Word of advice, kid. This may be the Wild West down here, but you ain't a cowboy. You're not even a boy in a cowboy suit.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

I was playing with sound like I would have played with pots and pans as a kid.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

Catherine Bell

We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Kids keep getting wiser younger, which is dangerous, and adults need to stop taking themselves too seriously.