Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebel Wilson

As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.

Reba McEntire

I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond's wife, his widow. I've seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a lot of them came over. It's hard for them to come see the show. It's still hard.

Robert De Niro

As a kid I didn't root for the bad guys.

River Phoenix

I've always felt somewhat out of place with other kids my own age", said River. "I was constantly reminded by people's reaction to our names and our diet that we seemed weird to them.

River Phoenix

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.

Richard Pryor

Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.

Richard Rodriguez

Most American Hispanics don't belong to one race, either. I keep telling kids that, when filling out forms, they should put "yes" to everything - yes, I am Chinese; yes, I am African; yes, I am white; yes, I am a Pacific Islander; yes, yes, yes - just to befuddle the bureaucrats who think we live separately from one another.

Richard Coyle

I was always the kid at the side of the playground, looking at the other kids. I didn't know how to get into the group. I was quiet and bookish, a bit of a geek. I was into orienteering when my friends were out clubbing.

Richard Carmona

If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health.

Tullian Tchividjian

When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.

Tupac Shakur

Now the whole worlds calling me a killer all I ever did was try to reach the kids with the realer.

Tupac Shakur

I'd love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that's the way it is.

Tupac Shakur

I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS.

Trevor Nunn

When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors.

Trey Parker

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

Trey Parker

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.

Trey Parker

My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.

Tracy McGrady

To have kids and not be there every night is tough.

Tracy Pollan

I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me.

Tracy Morgan

When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch the filming of Claudine with James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. That was my first taste of seeing a set and the cameras, and I was bit by the acting bug at a young age.

Tracy Morgan

I'm not focused on the outrageousness. I'm just focused on being funny, and raising my kids. I don't even read the newspaper, I don't read that crap.

Sarah Jessica Parker

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

Sarah Dessen

When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between. you can't just dip in and out, picking and choosing the parts you want and quitting when it's not perfect.

Sandra Lee

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen.

Sandra Lee

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.

Sandra Bullock

If all of a sudden someone said, 'You have five more kids,' I'd be totally OK with it.

Sandra Bullock

If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what life is about.

Roselyn Sanchez

Five women working together is never going to be easy. It's a lot. But God is so incredible, in terms of the timing, because we are all married with kids, in our late 30s and 40s. It's a different stage in our lives. It's not about who is going to be the one that's going to pop.

Roseanne Barr

I had one kid with the birth control pill, I had one with the diaphram and I had one with the I.U.D. I don't even know what happened with my I.U.D. It never came out. But I have my suspicions because that kid picks up HBO.

Roseanne Barr

My kids were completely out of control, while I was working fifteen hours a day plus weekends. I screamed a lot, something I'm not particularly proud of, but it was that or firearms.

Roseanne Barr

The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.

Roseanne Barr

Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.

Roger Ebert

It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is a famous journalistic legend about the time a young reporter covered the Johnstown flood of 1889. The kid wrote: God sat on a hillside overlooking Johnstown today and looked at the destruction He had wrought. His editor cabled back: Forget flood. Interview God.