“I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed it out. Then I decided to bring it up within the industry. I knew a lot of people, so I'd say, "Have you ever noticed how few female characters there are in kids movies?" when I met a director, a producer, whatever. And they said, "Oh, but that's not true anymore."” PeopleIfsSaidCharacterKidsMotherIndustryMetsDirectorsDaughterMy FriendsFemaleDecidedAskingFeministProducersThey SaidFemale CharactersMother DaughterKids Movie Author:Geena Davis
“I was a nerdy kid and I was writing and showing other fellows who are still my friends what I was writing. We were sharing that and kept sharing it. The experiences they had were so different than mine.” WritingStillsDifferentKidsMinesMy FriendsFellowsNerdy Author:Alejandro Zambra
“I managed to stay grounded and when I wasn't working, I was hanging out with my friends so I was still able to be a kid and have that part of my life. I didn't let acting take over completely.” StillsKidsAbleActingMy FriendsHanging OutGrounded Author:Asa Butterfield
“The fact that there's a more open discussion about everything from feminism to racism ... I look at my two boys ... this is their future I'm talking about. When I'll be long gone, it'll be them and their kids. I know that sometimes the darkest times are followed by the lightest. Sometimes bad things have to happen for good things to happen. At the very worst, we're having very open discussions, discussions about things we didn't even know f-king existed. I talk to my friends about it and they are absolutely shocked. They didn't even know.” KnowsLooksLongTwoSometimesFactsHappensKidsTalkingBoysGoneFeminismWorstKingsRacismMy FriendsGood ThingsDiscussionBad ThingsShockedDarkest Times Author:Michael Buble
“I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, "This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends." It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I'd been spoon-fed.” RealFeelingsKidsRememberFeltSeeingStreetsChildhoodMy FriendsVersionsSmokeFedsSwearCigaretteSpoonsRefreshingSesame StreetStand By Me Author:Brian K. Vaughan
“I grew up in that, when I was a kid. My friends and I used to play cowboys and Indians. We were cowboys killing the Indians, following the Wild West stories. All of this combined into a very strange culture, which is frightened.” PlayStoriesKidsUsedCultureStrangeGrewGrew UpMy FriendsWestKillingFollowingFrightenedCowboyWild West Author:Noam Chomsky
“I am a perfectionist but I know how to live life. When I'm working, it's 100%. When I'm with my friends, I put everything away and enjoy life. When I come home to my kids, it's pure joy and everything's worth it. Every time, I really focus 100 percent on one thing. I've learned how to juggle my life and I feel like now I have the perfect balance.” KnowsLifeFeelsHomeKidsJoyEnjoyPerfectKnow HowFocusOne ThingBalancePurePercentMy FriendsLive LifeI've LearnedWorking ItComing HomeWorth ItEnjoy LifePerfectionistThings I've LearnedPure JoyPerfect BalanceHow To Live LifeEnjoy Life To The Fullest Author:Monique Lhuillier
“I was always a very quirky kid. I remember very early like fourth or fifth grade doing pratfalls to make my friends laugh, like falling on the ground on the playground and doing like bits and characters.” CharacterKidsRememberFallBitsLaughingMy FriendsGradesFourthFifthQuirkyPlaygroundsFifth Grade Author:Busy Philipps
“Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.” YearsTwoRunningKidsUsedGrowing UpFourGrowingGayPercentMy FriendsHanging OutBuddyKentucky Author:Hal Sparks
“When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you're a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family - that's your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me.” WorldWholeKidsSchoolLostExistenceTeacherPerspectiveMy FriendsWhole WorldStrongestDose Author:Kristen Stewart
“I've always seen My Chemical Romance as the band that would have represented who me and my friends were in high school, and the band that we didn't have to represent us - the kids that wore black - back then.” KidsSchoolRomanceBlackBandHigh SchoolMy FriendsChemicals Author:Gerard Way
“I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.” WorldKidsMotherHurtWifeMy FriendsFoundationMy WifeAround The World Author:Tiger Woods
“My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.” ChildrenI CanHumorKidsFunnyAsksFriendshipBoysBabyMy FriendsParentingWittyNoiseMy BabyNew BabyCute Baby Boy Author:Steven Wright
“As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe.” DifferentWould BeKidsUniverseHouseEnergyStarsWaitingDarkRocksBandDiseaseMy FriendsStandingWindowMadStealingCuresMysteriousObsessedBelongingDestroyingCowsDrsYardsRock StarAstronautScenariosNeuroticExplorersCartoonistDwarfsCabDwarvesGnomeMotelsUndefinedDark EnergyDruggiesMad Cow Disease Book:Going Bovine Source: Going Bovine
“When I was little, my friends would gush over wedding gowns and honeymoons. But I saw too many people flush decades together down the toilet over money or kids or meaningless flings. My own parents chose to stay married, which I think is rather funny, since they show about as much affection for each other as pit bulls in a ring. Tying the knot means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.” PeopleThinkingMeanLittlesShowsKidsTogetherParentMy OwnSawsMarriedMy FriendsAffectionDecadesRingsMeaninglessToiletsBullsPitsChokeKnotsGownsFlingSlippingHoneymoonNoosesPit Bull Author:Ellen Hopkins
“Anyone who meets you and doesn't want to get to know you and be part of your life is stupid. I saw it when I was just a kid." "No. You thought I was a vampire and you wanted to be my friend so I wouldn't eat you." "Well, that too. But I found out soon enough you weren't a blood sucker and I still licked you.” KnowsWantWellsStillsEnoughKidsWantedLife IsFoundSawsBloodStupidMy FriendsVampireSuckerSoon Enough Author:Abbi Glines