Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Burton

My kid is a product of the fast computer lifestyle.

Tim Burton

When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don't know... a regular scientist just was no un.

Tim Burton

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

Thomas Kinkade

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.

Thomas Frank

Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That's what the 'kids for cash' judges were apparently experimenting with.

Thomas Friedman

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.

Thomas Friedman

Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards.

Thomas Friedman

We're going in the wrong direction and I think the only way to counter that is to bring the story home in really concrete ways to people - in ways that kids can understand and non-scientists can understand.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I never wanted to be the annoying kid on set.

Rebecca Ferguson

I'd definitely like more kids when I'm older. And I think I'm like every woman in that I'd like to get married one day.

Rebecca Ferguson

I am lucky in that I love what I do, but it can still be hard to be away from the kids for long lengths of time. At the end of the day, all I want is to be with my kids, but it's worth it to create a future for my family.

Ville Valo

I have 4 kids already, I don’t need anymore. I’m a single parent. I’m taking them through Europe and make them play funny instruments.

Vin Diesel

The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.

Viggo Mortensen

Kids are shy and they often don't want to make eye contact or say "thank you."

Viggo Mortensen

Every once in a while, someone would call me a foreigner or a Yankee, or whatever. In the United States, someone might say something, like how kids do, to point out that you're different. That would come as a surprise to me. As you get old, you either get defensive about it or you accept it and you reach out, because you realize the world's full of people like that.

Viggo Mortensen

It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.

Viggo Mortensen

Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.

Susan Olsen

As a little kid, I suppose I was a little weird.

Steve Toltz

Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.

Stacy Keach

I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is about.

Samantha Morton

I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.

Toni Braxton

I'm in love with kid's stories and animation.

Stephen Collins

I have an almost seven year old... I think it's essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one.

Stephen Daldry

Ring up your parents and ring up your kids and tell them that you love them.

Stellan Skarsgard

I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice.

Stellan Skarsgard

I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place.

Stellan Skarsgard

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.

Stephan James

I realize the importance of retelling those stories is so that, one, we don't forget what our ancestors had to do so we can be where we are, and two, to just educate the newer generation. I'm being educated by all these films [ The Root and Selma] and the things I've had the opportunity to be a part of, and kids even younger than me are being educated, too. It's important to make sure those stories never die.

Spencer Grammer

Everyone has their thing, and I was the weird, artsy kid.

Spike Jonze

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.

Spike Jonze

If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included.

Simon Cowell

There's one argument that says we shouldn't be putting these kids on under the age of 16. I think you've got to take it case by case.

Simon Cowell

Normally if I go to one of these things I'm in and out in five minutes, but at Pride of Britain I stay to the end. It's a fantastic show. But it's incredibly hard on the night when you meet all the kids and hear their stories. They do get to you.