Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kirstie Alley

No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness.

Nikki Cox

The only other thing that interested me as a kid was being a bricklayer. So if I hadn't become an actress, I would probably be a bricklayer.

Nicole Polizzi

I went into designing my house thinking I could have some more expensive items because I didn't realize my kids were going to be animals.

Mary Lou Retton

Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.

Mikey Way

Big Day Out is one of our favourite festivals, it's such an eclectic mix of so many different things and it's really about music - which is what a good festival should be about. The reaction from the fans in that part of the world rivals our greatest territories and the kids are always very rabid and very appreciative of us being there, so we're super excited to get back.

Nathan Lane

As a kid, I loved Godot because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, its much more resonant.

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.

Lauren Oliver

it's weird how much people change. for example, when i was a kid i loved all of these things..and over time all of them just fell away, one after another, replaced by friends and IMing and cell phones and boys and clothes. it's kind of sad, if you think about it. like there's no continuity in people at all. like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a "young adult," and after that you're a totally different person. maybe even a less happy person. maybe even a worse one.

Lauren Oliver

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

Larry the Cable Guy

Some guy came up to me with his kids, ages probably 10 and 12, and said that the reason he likes me is because he sat through an hour and twenty-minute show, and I didn't cuss one time. So it just really depends.

Larry the Cable Guy

When I started doing my act, I wasn't married and didn't have kids. I was probably 29 years old. Some people say that's not a kid, but when you're 50, and you look back to when you were 30, you were a kid. You look back on your 30s and think, "I was an idiot!" But I would just do things then I thought were funny. I couldn't have cared less who thought anything about it.

Larry the Cable Guy

When you're married with kids, you just think differently.

Larry the Cable Guy

I was scared into being good. But I'm sure I did regular kid stuff.

Larry the Cable Guy

I was pretty subdued [as a kid ] because I didn't want to get spanked, and I didn't want to go to Hell.

P. J. O'Rourke

If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit being moral. Screw the rights of nature. Nature will have rights as soon as it get duties. The minute we see birds, trees, bugs, and squirrels picking up litter, giving money to charity, and keeping an eye on our kids at the park, we'll let them vote.

P. J. O'Rourke

I am no stranger to loud music. I've been to a Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels concert. I once dated a woman with two kids.

Pablo Picasso

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

Paul Stanley

I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.

Paul Stanley

The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you'd explode if you took another bite. I'd eat my plate and then everyone else's leftovers.

Paul Stanley

Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am.

Paul Houston

The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into wealthier families. You know, it's great to tell kids to pull themselves up by their own boot straps, but you better put boots on them first.

Kathy Griffin

I can say whatever I want. So do not bring the kids. It's definitely rated R.

Kathy Griffin

Gwyneth Paltrow names her kid Apple. I'm not going to let that stand.

Keanu Reeves

A relationship is an imaginative act, it's an act of creation. Someone said to me the other day that a relationship between a person and a kid is unconditional; but the relationship between adults, to each other, is conditional, in a sense. But that condition can be the best kind.

Kay Robertson

My kids would come in from school and sit on the floor in front of the TV and line up duck call boxes and put the stickers on the duck call and then put them in the boxes.

Kristi Yamaguchi

Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.

Kristen Wiig

I love kids. All my best friends have kids, and I love, love, love kids.

Kristen Stewart

I think by default I wanted to be an actor because, on a movie set as a little kid, the only thing that you can do is be an actor. And I was really enthralled by the whole process.

Kristen Stewart

When I was a kid, you went and saw movies. You knew very little about the actor's personal life except what would be, like, in Photoplay or something. We didn't hear "The Making of..." every single movie, and actors didn't have to put this tremendous piece of work that they'd done into a sound bite.

Kristen Stewart

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

Oprah Winfrey

I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become so accepted now, and somebody said, 'You know the Oprah show, I think has had a big impact.'" I said, I don't think so. We did several transgender [shows], but we didn't do as much for transgender as I did for, say, abused kids or battered women. And they said, "But no, you started the conversation. You started the conversation and the conversation has led us to here."

Olivia Wilde

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.