Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary J. Blige

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

Mary J. Blige

As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday.

Mark Hall

We want to encourage people. You are not just another kid in the youth group or the lady on the third row. God has a purpose for every life.

Mark Haddon

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts

Marion Cotillard

I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.

Paul Haggis

We are manipulated by fear and the fear of others, and how we're often manipulated into doing things and voting in ways that are against our own best interest. Look at healthcare. People will tell you that healthcare is socialism and communism, and they're doing this while their wife needs an operation and their kid needs braces.

Paul Hawken

Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids.

Paul Goodman

Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin.

Patty Murray

I want to make sure that all kids get a good education and enjoy what they learn

Patrick Lussier

I love making genre films. It's something I've really been attracted to since I was a kid, mostly because, as a kid, it was forbidden fruit.

Patrick J. Adams

I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

Patrick J. Adams

I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me, as a kid.

Pat Benatar

It's really hard to make records and concentrate and have a free mind, because I have this whole other life. If you don't have kids it's a whole other thing. I think you can be fifty and still have a rock and roll lifestyle; you can still perpetuate that.

Pat Burns

As for my career, I always said to my kids, 'You don't cry because it's over, you're happy because it happened.' That's the main thing. I'm very happy that it happened.

Pat Buchanan

I've gotten balanced coverage and broad coverage - all we could have asked. ... For heaven sakes, we kid about the liberal media, but every republican on earth does that.

Pat Conroy

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

Julia Ormond

I get very protective of kids on set. I always make a point of telling kids that anything that makes them feel unsafe or concerned they should just speak up about, and then keep an eye on times when that could present an issue.

Julia Ormond

I'd say that kids working on sets, even if it's Bambi, need to be allowed to be kids, even if they're working, not become little adults - that to me can be distorting to kids as an experience.

Julia Roberts

I want my kids to know when I'm pissed, when I'm happy and when I'm confounded,

Kristin Kreuk

I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.

Murray Rothbard

Harold, the young kids out there are not going to be willing to go to the barricades in defense of lowered transaction costs.

Moises Arias

When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You're trying to understand what the director wants. It's a learning process. Now, you go in and it's more of a collaboration.

Mojo Nixon

That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work.

Milo Ventimiglia

[Sylvester] Stallone and I were in a meeting for Rocky Balboa. We were laughing about something, and he looks at my mouth and says to the casting director, "Wow, your lip even hooks down like mine does." Then he looked at the casting director and nodded, and I guess that was the nod of saying, "Hire this kid." So yeah, I have a really crooked mouth. They don't work, but I can feel everything.

Milo Ventimiglia

I felt like it was something that didn't represent how I wanted to present myself. Now I'll see kids I come across on Twitter or Comic-Con, and they'll smile and I'll be like, "You have a crooked mouth like I have a crooked mouth!" We just sit there, and I talk about it with them and they feel better about themselves.

Mike Shannon

Everybody in St. Louis, every kid in St. Louis, wanted to be Stan Musial. He was the best.

Mike Shinoda

If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover anything that's different? Hip hop is so much of the same thing over and over again." I love hip hop, so I wanted to make an album from that standpoint, 'cause that's who I am.

Mike Shinoda

I loved Transformers when I was a kid.

Mike DeWine

I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine.

Mike DeWine

You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.

Mike Epps

You know, my life's changed now. I'm starting to experience what people are really supposed to do. You supposed to be married. You're supposed to have a family, kids, treat your wife right.

Nat Wolff

A lot of times you'll do a movie, and you'll be working with adults with families and kids and stuff. There's a level - you guys aren't going to be hanging out every second, you know?