Kids Quotes - Page 26

• Let's face it, 80 percent of the work I do my kids can't see.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Faces, Percent

  "The Cast of Racing Stripes". movieweb.com. January 11, 2005.

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• When I finish playing football, I would like to work with kids and sleep!

  Michael Strahan

  Sports, Football, Sleep

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• We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Dollars, Want, Thousand

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• I have three kids, one of each.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Three

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• I came from a real tough neighborhood. On my street, the kids take hubcaps - from moving cars.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Real, Moving

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• My cousin is gay, in school while other kids were dissecting frog, he was opening flies.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Cousin, School

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• My life is nothing but pressure. All pressure. This pressure is like a heaviness. It's always on top of me, this heaviness. It's always there since I'm a kid. Other people wake up in the morning, 'A new day! Ah, up and at 'em!' I wake up, the heaviness is waiting for me nice. Sometimes I even talk to it. I say [adopts cheerful voice] 'Hi, heaviness!' and the heaviness looks back at me, [in an ominous growl] 'Today you're gonna get it good. You'll be drinking early today.'

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Morning, Nice, Drinking

  "Rodney Dangerfield's It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime Of No Respect But Plenty Of Sex And Drugs" by Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. April 28, 2011.

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• I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Zoos, Children, Four

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.22, Zondervan

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• Growing up is something that you do your whole life. I want to always feel that I can be a kid if I want. Growing up has some negative connotations. Like, you're not supposed to roll around on the ground anymore. You're not supposed to make fun of yourself. You're not supposed to ride a bicycle. But I'm a Toys-R-Us kid.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Growing Up, Fun, Negative

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• I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.

  Vanilla Ice

  Real, Years, Two

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• I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.

  Donald Glover

  Book, Aspergers, Asperger's Syndrome

  "GQ&A: Donald Glover". Interview with Andy Morris, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. March 29, 2012.

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• I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and doing the school run. Those things are really important to me. Because I think that those small but key moments are crucial for a kid.

  Kate Winslet

  Running, Morning, School

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• Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.

  Javier Bardem

  Block, Speak English, America

  "Javier Bardem Comes Across" by Rene Rodriguez, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2000.

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• I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, Id get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didnt know everyone was laughing at me.

  Ryan Gosling

  Moving, Laughing, Red

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• It was more important to me to understand what its like to be this Jewish kid who felt he was so different at such a young age. I feel the story is about a kid who came to hate through love, so I felt I had to learn why he loved this thing so much that he also apparently hated it.

  Ryan Gosling

  Hate, Important, Age

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• I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.

  Missy Elliot

  Hip Hop, Unity, Important

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• I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.

  Willie Aames

  Jesus, Goes On, Want

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• It's good that kids know the Scripture. It's best that they know the Scripture and get the concept. All I can say is, it's working.

  Willie Aames

  Scripture, Knows, I Can

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• When I was a kid, my parents had a 900-pound television on top of a TV tray. My dad's theory was, 'Let him pull it over his head a few times, he'll learn.'

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Dad, Humor

  Jeff Foxworthy (2004). “No Shirt, No Shoes...No Problem!”, Hyperion

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• Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.

  Blake Shelton

  Voice, Lucky, Sparks

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• I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didnt dissuade me.

  Carmen Ejogo

  Mother, Personality, Saws

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• I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260-pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295-pound now.

  James Gandolfini

  School, Pounds, Things Change

  "James Gandolfini in His Own Words" by Christopher Rosa, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2013.

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• Family photo albums are so powerful in that they make kids feel valued, cherished and respected.

  Nancy O'Dell

  Powerful, Albums, Family Photo

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• Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Drug, Crafts, Fit

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• But I stuttered as a kid. I went to classes to help it, and it just went away around fourth grade, when I became more aware of how others spoke, I think. But also, growing up in the South, a mumble is a way of speaking.

  Channing Tatum

  Growing Up, Thinking, Class

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