“A real good artist is basically a grown-up kid, who never kills the kid. What we call being an adult is basically about killing the kid. People think you have to forget about the kid to become an adult and deal with grown-up problems. But, that's bullshit. We are still kids. It's the same, you just grow up. You're a kid with more experience.” PeopleThinkingStillsRealProblemKidsArtistGrowsForgetDealsGrowing UpAdultsKillingBullshitGood ArtGood Artist Author:Quentin Dupieux
“When I was growing up, I didn't do plays in downtown Boston, and my parents weren't putting me in auditions. They never thought, Oh, she has a gift! They never thought of me as an entertainer when I was a young kid.” PlayKidsYoungParentGrowing UpGrowingAuditionsBostonEntertainersDowntown Author:Mindy Kaling
“Since Catherine [Zeta-Jones] and I got together, I've cut back dramatically. My priorities changed, and I still love acting and all that, but not as much as I love watching my two kids grow up.” StillsTwoKidsTogetherGrowsActingGrowing UpCuttingChangedPrioritiesZeta Author:Michael Douglas
“I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American. So my last name is Famuyiwa, it's different. And so that was a part of my experience from people not being able to pronounce it to not sort of having sort of a shared, common history with a lot of the kids that I was growing up with because my parents were from Africa.” PeopleFirstsDifferentKidsAbleLastsNamesParentCommonGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsAfrican AmericanNigeria Author:Terry Gross
“People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.” PeopleThinkingWellsKidsGrowsGrowing UpAutism Author:Jason Katims
“Here's an idea: eat like an adult. Stop eating fast food, stop eating kid's cereal, knock it off with all the sweets and comfort foods, and ease up on the snacking. And don't act like you don't know this: eat more vegetables and fruits. Really, how difficult is this? Stop with the whining. Stop with the excuses. Act like an adult and stop eating like a television commercial. Grow up.” KnowsIdeasKidsGrowsDifficultGrowing UpTelevisionSweetLike YouComfortEatingAdultsFruitExcuseEaseVegetablesFast FoodWhiningCerealComfort FoodTelevision CommercialsEating Fast Food Author:Dan John
“Rugrats was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid.” KidsGrowing UpGrowingMy FavoriteCartoon Author:Michael Angarano
“I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.” PeopleMadeKidsSchoolFunGrowing UpGrowingFitHigh School Author:Magda Apanowicz
“I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.” WantMadeKidsAgeFilmActorsBoysGrowing UpGrowingHollywoodInspiredGoldenObsessedFavouriteDetectivesGangstersGolden AgeTracy Author:Ryan Gosling
“I'm Christian. Growing up in Ethiopia, it's half-Christian and half-Muslim. You grow up with Muslim kids. I'm very much aware of their religion.” KidsChristianGrowsHalfGrowing UpGrowingEthiopia Author:Liya Kebede
“I worry very much about kids growing up in a society where they think: "I'm not going to talk about this issue, read this book or explore this idea because someone may think I'm a terrorist." That's not the kind of free society I want for our children.” ThinkingWantKindMayChildrenBookIdeasKidsWorryGrowing UpIssuesGrowingOur ChildrenTerroristFree SocietyNsaKids Growing Up Author:Bernie Sanders
“Surfing and music were incredible outlets for me when I was a kid. And there are some really tricky times when you're growing up and it's easy to make a wrong decision, even with a good family and community around you. Surfing and music kept me out of trouble.” KidsEasyCommunityDecisionGrowing UpGrowingTroubleIncrediblesSurfingOutletsTrickyWrong DecisionGood Family Author:Jon Foreman
“I didn't grow up in a creative environment. It was very boring town, boring everything. You go to school and you basically hate all the other kids because you don't understand them or what it's all about. At the same time I'm happy for that because I became very withdrawn and when you become withdrawn you develop your own bizarre-o personality.” KidsSchoolHateGrowsCreativeGrowing UpEnvironmentPersonalityTownsBoringBizarre Author:Rob Zombie
“I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always doing art. But I also loved movies and music, so as I started doing everything, I liked every aspect. It's not really that I am a control freak; it's just that is what I love.” ArtDifferentKidsGrowing UpGrowingPaintingAspectDrawingDifferent ThingsFreakControl FreakKids Growing UpDrawing And PaintingMovies And Music Author:Rob Zombie
“I played soccer all my life and I used to think growing up that they put the fat kid in goal or they put the kid that wasn't good with the ball at their feet in goal and I never wanted to do goalkeeper, I was always the goal scorer.” ThinkingKidsWantedUsedGoalGrowing UpGrowingFeetBallsFatsSoccerGoalkeepersFat Kid Author:Hope Solo
“A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence. If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent. The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail.” IfsGivingTryingDoeSelfReasonKidsGamesGrowsParentResponsibilityGrowing UpFailingProduceHealthyAdultsSelf ConfidenceFixedDependent Author:Simon Sinek
“There may be something in the fact that when I was a little kid I'd been told growing up that we had some degree of native American blood in us, I always found that a point of pride. So, when it came to cowboys and Indians I most certainly did not want to be John Wayne. I wanted to be one of the Indians.” WantMayLittlesFactsKidsWantedFoundGrowing UpGrowingBloodPrideDegreesNativeNative AmericanCowboyLittle KidWayne Author:Johnny Depp
“In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature flailed her arms in what was now infinite space. We had given her disease and speeding cars and flying cornices: once out of the fortress that had been myself, she would never be safe again ... We disappoint our kids and they disappoint us, and sometimes they grow up into people we don't like very much. We go on loving, though what we love may be more memory than actuality. And until the day we die we fear the phone that rings in the middle of the night.” PeopleGivingMaySometimesKidsNightDiesFatherGivenGrowsMemoriesSpaceGrowing UpMiddleCarArmsGoes OnSafeCreaturesDiseaseDaughterInfinitePhonesRingsFlyingDisappointMiddle Of The NightOur DaughterActualityFortressesSpeedingInfinite SpaceSpeeding Cars Author:Mary Cantwell
“I'm a big kid. I never lost my childlike appreciation of things. Too many people lock it out and throw their toys away and say, okay, I'm gonna grow up and be grumpy and miserable and not think about the magical side of things anymore -- and I can't seem to stop doing that.” PeopleThinkingI CanBigsSeemsKidsLostGrowsSidesGrowing UpOkayAppreciationMiserableToysLocksChildlikeGrumpy Author:Andy Partridge
“[There's] a joke that I've done forever: 'Nowadays they say that the largest majority of people will be Latino and you'll tell scary stories to your grandkids: "A long time ago when I was growing up, there used to be people who were white," and the kid says, "Really?" and you say, "Yeah, like the man who cuts our grass."' I've had that line forever and I love it.” PeopleMenLongDoneStoriesKidsUsedLinesWhiteForeverGrowing UpCuttingGrowingHe ManLong TimeJokesYeahMajorityScaryUsed To BeGrassLong Time AgoLatinoGrandkidsScary Stories Author:George Lopez
“'The Simpsons' was about children and married parents; 'Futurama' is about people in between; they're growing up and haven't settled down. Every other cartoon show seemed to be, you know, dumb dad, bratty kids.” PeopleKnowsChildrenShowsKidsParentGrowing UpGrowingHavensDadMarriedDumbBe YouCartoonCartoon Shows Author:Matt Groening
“When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway.” KidsHateGrowsCitiesBehindsGrowing UpGrewGrew UpI HateCriminalsCopHighwaysBoston Author:Donnie Wahlberg
“I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.” PeopleThinkingWayWantArtKidsGrowsCreativeGrowing UpInspireBoxesOur FutureThinkerBe CreativeInnovatorsArt And Music Author:Angela Kinsey
“Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.” KidsGrowing UpGrowingBrotherMy BrotherNeighborhoodRidingDirtBikeSkateboardingBike RidingDirt Bikes Author:Daniella Monet
“I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.” WorldWantBelieveKidsGrowing UpGrowingDestructiveKids Growing Up Author:Chuck Connors
“I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn't mean that I'm less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me. It's kinda cool to be a little bit of both, I think.” ThinkingMeanLittlesPlayRunningKidsBitsSidesGrowing UpGrowingLittle BitDressesGirlyBarbieKids Growing Up Author:Adrianne Palicki
“I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.” KidsWantedGrowing UpGrowingOne ThingPainter Author:Andy Serkis
“Turtles have always been my sigil, I suppose. When I was a kid, growing up in Bayonne, NJ, I lived in a federal housing project, and we were not allowed to have a dog or cats. The only pets I could have were turtles. So, I had an entire toy castle filled with dime-store turtles. I gave them all names, and since they were living in a toy castle, I decided they were all knights and kingsand I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom. So, Game of Thrones, actually began with turtles. I decided later to recast it with actual human beings.” HumansMadeStoriesKidsGamesNamesHuman BeingsGrowing UpGrowingDogProjectsCatDecidedFilledStoresKingdomsPetToysThronesBetrayedHousingCastlesKnightsDimesTurtlesKids Growing UpMade Up Stories Author:George R. R. Martin