“In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on.” KnowsBigsKidsFansFootballTvsLateBowlsScotland80sAmerican FootballSuper BowlMiamiDolphinsLogosMiami Dolphins Author:Kevin McKidd
“I realise that every time my face is on TV or I'm playing in a tournament, that I am a role model for a lot of people and a lot of kids do look up to me. I try to do my best in that regard and put myself across as honestly and as modestly as possible, as well.” PeopleTryingWellsLooksKidsFacesRolesTvsModelsRegardHonestlyLook UpRealisingRole ModelsTournaments Author:Rory McIlroy
“I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.” FeelsYearsSaidCareKidsWantedFilmAttentionTvsCinema Author:Samantha Morton
“I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.” ShowsKidsUsedWatchesTelevisionTvsMadAgentsAuditions Author:Zosia Mamet
“I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.” PeopleWritingKidsTvsInternetGlassesMagnifyingMagnifying Glass Author:Oscar Nunez
“If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself.” IfsLooksKidsSchoolTurnsDecisionWorryDoorsPositionTvsPublic SchoolTurn OffPrivate SchoolPreschool Author:Cynthia Nixon
“Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or in front of that computer game all day. The society is telling kids unconsciously that nature's in the past. It really doesn't count anymore, that the future is in electronics, and besides, the bogeyman is in the woods.” KidsPastGamesFrontsTvsComputerWoodsElectronicsComputer Games Author:Richard Louv
“Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.” KidsLanguageFunTvsComedianHaving FunJust Have Fun Author:Alan Rudolph
“I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with.” ArtImportantKidsFilmNew YorkTvsGrewGrew UpMediumsAffectedMidwestArt Films Author:Shawn Ryan
“I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I've also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the week, but on weekends even the 2-year-old veges out to 'The Simpsons.” YearsKidsKnownWatchesWeekTvsOddWeekendMilkOrganic Food Author:Ayelet Waldman
“Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.” LooksKidsTodayActorsMediaTvsMessagesSingersDrowning Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.” ReasonKidsTvsNews Author:Will Ferrell
“I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, 'Wow! I gotta play something like that!'” SaidRealPlayBigsRunningKidsTvsFancyWowBassCords Author:Steve Vai
“Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.” MayBookKidsReadingGamesCan DoAttentionTechnologyMediaTelevisionTvsComputerEntertainmentNew TechnologyReading For KidsComputer GamesElectronic Media Author:Jon Scieszka
“It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.” PeopleIfsThinkingPlayFactsKidsWatchesTvsCowboyBack WhenCowboy Movie Author:Magnus
“I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host.” MenShouldStoriesShowsDreamEyeKidsWantedCultureTvsGoes OnGayAdultsPopsHostDreams Come TruePop CultureHousewifeTrue StoryTalk ShowsWinding Up Author:Andy Cohen
“Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.” NeedsLittlesStillsKidsTvsInternetBandRadioLittle KidYoutubePlaying Music Author:Chris Cornell
“The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.” YearsRealReasonKidsYoungCompanyTvsTypeDadRadioOilTapeOil Companies Author:Zac Hanson
“I do think that Live Aid (1985) (TV) was a great thing, it focused people, I think it showed young kids the way in many respects and I think a lot of people are still inspired by what happened in the mid-Eighties.” PeopleThinkingWayStillsKidsYoungHappenedTvsInspiredFocusedAidsGreat ThingsEighty Author:George Michael
“You never know what`s going to be big. It`s the fans. It was just a Disney Channel Movie and the kids made it huge... For High School Musical 2 (2007) (TV), we just wanted to have fun and make something together.” KnowsMadeBigsKidsWantedSchoolTogetherFunFansTvsHugeHigh SchoolMusicalMade ItHaving FunHigh School MusicalDisney Channel Author:Ashley Tisdale
“Well, we're just a couple of weeks from new President Barack Obama being sworn in. And he's been very busy naming a lot of cabinet positions. And today he announced that he wants the surgeon general to be TV Dr. Sanjay Gupta. That was the kid on 'American Idol,' wasn't it?” WantWellsKidsTodayPresidentWeekPositionTvsCoupleBusyBarackIdolsDrsSurgeonsCabinetsPresident Barack ObamaAmerican Idol Author:David Letterman
“Like most lazy upper-middle-class kids, American Studies seemed like a fun way to use your knowledge of TV to get an A.” WayUseKidsFunClassStudyMiddleTvsLazyMiddle ClassUpper Middle Class Author:Nick Kroll
“The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.” RealHomeRunningKidsTvsStudiosShirtsShoppingJeansT ShirtReal MeBristolGlitz Author:Carol Vorderman
“I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.” WritingBookKidsStarsGrowsGrowing UpTvsMeaningfulNovelistsMovie Star Author:Bill Vaughan
“I was a big TV kid.When I was a kid, I would go home at 3:00 and watch TV straight through to the end of Letterman at 1:30 in the morning.I was obsessed with comics.And I would watch Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno and study them as if it was Tolstoy.” IfsEndsHomeBigsKidsWatchesMorningStudyTvsObsessedJerryLetterman Author:Judd Apatow
“I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcoms—it had nothing to do with the color of them—I just didn't like any of them. I saw little kids, let's say 6 or 7 years old, white kids, black kids. And the way they were addressing the father or the mother, the writers had turned things around, so the little children were smarter than the parent or the caregiver. They were just not funny to me. I felt that it was manipulative and the audience was looking at something that had no responsibility to the family.” WayYearsChildrenLittlesKidsMotherFatherFeltParentBlackTermWhiteResponsibilityAudienceSawsColorTvsSmarterLittle KidSitcomManipulativeCaregivers Author:Bill Cosby
“I look at it this way: How much of the day are you awake? You think, "I've gotta get that dry cleaning, I gotta get this going, and this, and this, and this." And all of a sudden it's dinnertime. And then there's a moment of connection with your spouse or your friends. Then you read and go to bed. Wake up and then it's the same all over. You're not awake, you're not living, you're not experiencing. We start early medicating ourselves. We start kids early, on TV and video games and so on.” ThinkingWayLifeLooksMomentsKidsGamesTvsBedConnectionsWake UpVideoAwakeDryOver YouSpouseCleaningDry Cleaning Author:Tim Allen
“My upbringing was very un-Hollywood. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch. I was never really smitten by the business in those days, never a fan type - just a basic kid watching TV. It wasn't like I was an insider. I was never really brought into the show business side of my father's life. I guess that's been a blessing and a downfall. But it's made my own work the initiation.” MadeShowsKidsFatherSidesBornMy OwnFansNew YorkTvsGrewTypeBlessingGrew UpHollywoodShow BusinessUpbringingDownfallInitiationInsidersWatching TvSmitten Author:Stephanie Zimbalist
“Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.” WayChildrenHelpingKidsTvsSkillsEssentialsAdultsEtcSuspectsUsualCognitiveSmartphones Author:Daniel Goleman
“There is a report that says that kids who watch violent TV programs tend to be more violent when they grow up. But did the TV cause the violence, or do violent children preferentially enjoy watching violent programs?” ChildrenKidsGrowsCausesEnjoyWatchesGrowing UpViolenceTelevisionTvsProgramViolentReports Author:Carl Sagan
“You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers.” PeopleKnowsWantLittlesDoneKidsArtistForgetWatchesTvsLike YouHairTownsDesignerLittle Kid Author:Genevieve Gorder
“God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.” KidsSportsTvsGrewGrew UpGladNewspapers Author:Michael Wilbon
“One night I couldn't sleep. It was like 2:00 in the morning. I was thinking, 'What can I do?' I'm watching TV. I'm like, 'Let me do something else.' I'm not going to fall asleep for a few hours. What are my hobbies? There was the masturbation option. I skipped that because just knowing my kids are down the hall I felt psychotic. So, I went with watching more TV. I couldn't come up with anything. I was going, 'God, read a book.' Then I was like this, 'Where do I keep the books?' I've got nothing to do but watch TV.” ThinkingBookKidsNightFallFeltHoursSleepWatchesMorningKnowingTvsLet MeCome UpHallsHobbiesOne NightMasturbationPsychoticWatching Tv Author:Adam Sandler
“Play with your kids. Limit their TV time. Get outdoors and chase them around. Wrestle with them. Walk the dog. Go bike riding. The reality is that your kids are not stupid, and they know when they are overweight Start walking the dog after dinner instead of watching TV. You don't want them going on the Web to find ways to lose weight. That's when you'll find them eating tissue paper because they read that a supermodel did it.” KnowsWayWantPlayRealityKidsLosesWalksDogStupidTvsWalkingLimitsPaperEatingWeightDinnerRidingBikeTissuesOverweightLose WeightNot StupidWatching TvSupermodelBike RidingTissue Paper Author:Jillian Michaels
“A lot of my colleagues just don't really realize that they have to work in order to get the interest of an audience, especially with young kids, especially because it [classical music] is not that popular. You don't see it on TV, you don't hear it on radio, so you really gotta put an effort into promoting classical music.” KidsYoungOrderInterestRealizingEffortAudienceTvsMusic IsRadioColleaguesPromotingClassical Music Author:David Garrett
“Fans believe they have a relationship with you, either through your TV character or, more reasonably, through the tweets you may have exchanged. In a way, you have gotten to know them. You learn about people's kids, families, pets.” PeopleKnowsWayBelieveMayCharacterKidsFansTvsPetTweetFamily Pets Author:Gina Bellman
“I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else they do. I think any other kind of message or morals that I might teach is secondary to first just enjoying a book.” ThinkingWantFirstsKindBookMightKidsReadingGamesFunEnjoyMoralTeachTvsMessagesVideo Author:Louis Sachar
“My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.” BookKidsLevelsTvsLowsMarkLibraryTomsMumNaughtyLow LevelSawyer Author:John Grisham
“I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, 'Oh, that was research.'” WayLooksI CanReasonKidsHoursGoneTelevisionTvsGrewGrew UpResearchReason WhyJustifyOverwhelmedWatching Tv Author:Matt Groening
“I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.” WayBookPlayKidsWatchesToo MuchMediaTvsAccessExperimentsComicComic BookNintendo Author:Matt Groening
“My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.” ThinkingI CanDoneMomentsKidsHateWaitingWatchesFrontsTvsSittingI Hate Author:Natascha McElhone
“When New Kids became really successful, I got a lot of offers to do parts in movies and TV shows, but I was really busy, so I pretty much turned everything down. But I always knew it was something that I would eventually put some energy into.” ShowsKidsEnergySuccessfulTvsOffersBusyTv Shows Author:Donnie Wahlberg