Famous Quotes & Sayings

LeAnn Rimes

I signed my deal when I was 11, and the success I had, no one could explain that to an adult, what's about to happen to them, much less a kid. There's not many people around who've experienced that.

Laurence Steinberg

Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . . . The bottomline is that good kids don't suddenly go bad in adolescence.

Laurence Fishburne

I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.

Lauren Myracle

It's unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them.

Joe Dante

So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.

Joe Dante

I've made a lot of movies with kids in them. I don't know why that is, but it's something I've noticed.

Joe DiMaggio

Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.

Joe DiMaggio

The reason I play so hard is that somewhere out there is some kid who has never seen me play before, and I don't want to disappoint him.

Joe DiMaggio

There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.

Jodi Picoult

When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.

Jodi Picoult

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.

John Green

I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.

John Green

But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?

John Green

I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.

John Green

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.

John Green

You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.

Patton Oswalt

With acting, you see some of the kids are literally just off the street, untrained, and they are great. And others are off the street, untrained, and kind of horrible.

Patti Smith

When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist.

Patti Smith

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

Patti Smith

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

P. J. O'Rourke

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

P. J. O'Rourke

Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system

Ozzy Osbourne

I don't forget what I used to do and so I can't justifiably say to my kid, "Don't you do that," when I used to do it myself.

Ozzy Osbourne

Most guys my age are boring human beings. They sit in bars, get drunk, and then go home to tell their kids the way to rule their lives, while they're absolutely stewed out of their brains.

Ozzy Osbourne

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didnt want to see my kids do the same thing

Ozzy Osbourne

I am a raging alcoholic, but I don't want my kids to do the same.

Ozzy Osbourne

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

Paul Pierce

Kids get influenced by other kids.

Paul Farmer

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

Paul Feig

I love the pictures of Old Hollywood, seeing the directors dressed in suits and ties. Even the grips would be wearing ties. But the biggest thing is when I was a kid, I couldn't wait to be an adult, and I think what happens with most guys is that no one wants to be an adult anymore. So they're dressing like kids.

Paul Feig

My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.

Paul Feig

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.

Matt Groening

My standard comment is, 'If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson.'