Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.

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

I fought as a kid. But football is what kept me out of trouble. You could always fight, whether you're in trouble or not

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

Between the kids, the jobs and everything, no matter what color you are, cardio is probably not on the top of your list.

Linda's at her best when she's doing you a meal at home. That's when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids.

When someone shows you a picture of their kids what they don't want to hear is Oh, yeah, I got pictures of your kid too.

People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

I'm an actress and I want to act, and I'm a mom and I want to be with my kids, and it's trying to find a way to do both.

I was a good-looking kid. I never felt, like, dorky. I was just like, 'Yup, these are my braces. I've had them forever.'

If someone has a boy who gets to age 18 without something [a bone] being fractured, that kid has been overly controlled.

I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!

Sometimes kids just act impulsively, but it's because we have strong feelings, not because we're trying to make trouble.

I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better.

A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.

When I was a kid... I don't know which was more embarrassing, when I was really into The Beatles or when I was a hippie.

I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.

Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.

I've always loved adventure stories that involve brilliant kids using their brains to beat systems that seem unbeatable.

Few kids seek to learn a skill specifically designed to impress people unless they feel less than impressive themselves.

As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics.

I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.

When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids.

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.

I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.

I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.

One of my favorite things about 'Spring Awakening' is that it is enjoyable and important for both kids and adults to see.

Because I could see that all these kids were weird and even they didn't accept me, I knew I was the strangest one of all.

These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation. in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime.

Emma Watson is my kids' favorite actor on the planet. They never took me more seriously than when I was working with her.

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn’t have a lot of friends. Theater really represented that kind of camaraderie.

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.

I don't really believe you are married unless you have children. And people who only have one kid don't really have kids.

The reason I haven't had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break.

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

Most kids would be like, 'My dad's never around.' But I saw it as a positive. He was out there working to provide for me.

Word of advice, kid. This may be the Wild West down here, but you ain't a cowboy. You're not even a boy in a cowboy suit.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

When you're a little kid, your heart is open and tender and a harsh word can go straight in and become part of your life.

Have you ever thought about registering as a sex offender just so your friends won't bring their kids over to your house?

It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs. We should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

I mean, I grew up in the Valley. All my friends were white Jewish kids. So the Latino kids thought I was this white girl.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes

When you work with kids, you realize if they have a really good, stable family environment that they're going to be okay.

I don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos.

The real test will be having a family; when I have a family you have to come home, you have to eat dinner with your kids.

When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with.

I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.

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