Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Spielberg

All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.

Steven Spielberg

I was afraid of small spaces and I was afraid of the tree outside my window, and I had all these phobias. I think many kids have those phobias, but I probably had more than most.

Steven Spielberg

I still have pretty much the same fears I had as a kid. I'm not sure I'd want to give them up; a lot of these insecurities fuel the movies I make.

Steven Spielberg

A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version.

Steven Spielberg

I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.

Reggie Jackson

I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.

Regina Brett

It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices away if they're interrupting and interfering with everyone else's pleasure at a movie, concert or other public event.

Red Buttons

George Burns, what a man. He read in the paper that it takes ten dollars a year to support a kid in India. So he sent his kids there.

Ray William Johnson

I was influenced by a lot of stand-up comedians... Eddie Murphy back when he was doing 'Raw.' I watched that so many times as a kid, I can probably still quote the entire thing to this day. Chris Rock. Dave Chappelle. George Carlin. A lot of the guys who were sort of edgy for their time.

Tom Hollander

Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.

Tom Verducci

I'm still the kid who grew up with ink on his hands from delivering newspapers.

Tom T. Hall

Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.

Tom T. Hall

This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.

Tom Morello

In my own way, I was a rebellious kid.

Tom Hanks

I love my family and I love my kids, but when the moments come, it's not as though you can just substitute your own life with what you're doing on film. You have to go to some other place where it's bigger than your own life.

Tom Hanks

All the kids are gone. It's the greatest thing that has ever happened to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hanks. I'll tell you that right now. Second greatest after having the kids in the first place. When they go, holy smoke, it's like you're dating again. It's fantastic. Also, we were doing an awful lot of work.

Tom Hanks

I think I'm lucky that I had kids as spread out as much as I did, 'cause my son, my oldest, was born when I was 21. And my youngest is 15 now. He was born when I was 40, you know?

Tom Brady

I like skiing and surfing with kids. They are the cutest little skiers out there, in their little outfits. I just want to eat 'em up!

Tom Brady

As for hobbies, I don't really read or watch TV. I'm very active. I like surfing, skiing, riding bikes with my kids, and working out with my friends.

Tina Turner

They're still in good shape, but I'm not flashing them anymore. I'm an old lady. I leave all the flesh to the kids.

Tina Fey

I was a very confident little kid.

Tina Fey

If you watch [The] Search for Signs of Intelligent Life [in the Universe], or The Incredible Shrinking Woman, or 9 to 5, there is a lot of gender politics at the forefront of Lily Tomlin work, which was kind of thrilling for me to be watching as a 10-, 11-, 12-year-old kid.

Tina Fey

I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don't know then that the writer writes everything the actor is saying. But as I got older, I got into college and became more aware that writing is another option, and I started getting into it, too.

Tina Fey

I guess what I would tell women is to get their education first, before having kids. That way they can keep their options open down the road. I also think that it shouldn't necessarily be an issue just for women, that men should be part of the stay-home discussion too.

Tina Fey

You all watched a sketch about feminism and you didn't even know it because of all the jokes. It's like when Jessica Seinfeld puts spinach in kids' brownies. Suckers!

Tina Fey

Every kid has something they're good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.

Tim Matheson

I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do.

Tim Kaine

Here's what people should look at as they look at a public servant. Do they have a passion in their life that showed up before they were in public life? And have they held onto that passion throughout their life, regardless of whether they were in office or not, succeeding or failing. Hillary Clinton has that passion, from a time as a kid in a methodist youth group in the suburbs of Chicago, she has been focused on serving others with a special focus on empowering families and kids.

Tim Daly

What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age,

Tim Finn

I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid.

Tibor Kalman

I like being a 10-year-old kid who's in charge.

Tiffani Thiessen

I've let a lot of my type A personality go. When you have a kid, the messiness doesn't matter anymore.

Sam Huntington

My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.