“I was ashamed to let anyone know that I was living in a shelter. I remember one time coming home and some kids saw me and were like, "What you doing here? This is a shelter!" But I was like, "My mom's working there." It was pretty embarrassing.” KnowsHomeKidsRememberSawsMomMy MomAshamedComing HomeOne TimeShelterEmbarrassing Author:ASAP Rocky
“In general I think the inspiration was to think about all those movies that I saw as a kid and never knew they were remakes, because I know there's probably another kid going to watch Evil Dead who has no idea.” ThinkingKnowsIdeasInspirationKidsEvilWatchesSawsNo IdeaRemakesEvil Dead Author:Fede Alvarez
“There's a ruthlessness to the city now that wasn't there before. I was in Dublin a few months ago, when we were shooting Breakfast on Pluto, and if I saw one kid throwing up on the street, I must have seen a hundred of them.” IfsKidsCitiesSawsStreetsMonthsHundredShootingBreakfastThrowingDublinRuthlessnessPlutoThrowing Up Author:Liam Neeson
“I saw a lot of lousy movies and watched a ton of crappy television and read a bunch of utterly forgettable books and comics and listened to hours of junk music as a kid. And I'm still drawing profitably in my own art on some of the tawdry treasure I stored up in those years.” YearsArtStillsBookKidsHoursMy OwnSawsTelevisionDrawingTreasureBunchJunkForgettable Author:Michael Chabon
“I kid the Republicans, with love. I feel bad for them. They got nobody for next time. Who are they gonna run? Sarah Palin, reading off her hand. Did you see that? You saw this? She wrote "tax cuts" on her hand. A Republican so stupid she has to be reminded of the one thing - Tax cuts! This is like if you saw the coyote's paw and it said "Road Runner".” IfsFeelsSaidHandsRunningKidsReadingNextSawsCuttingOne ThingStupidRepublicanTaxesNext TimeRunnersPalinTax CutsPawsCoyotesRoad Runner Author:Bill Maher
“I saw this anti-drug commercial that showed a kid smoking pot in his dad`s room with his friend. This kid finds a gun, the gun accidentally goes off and kills his friend. Only in America is the villain in this commercial not guns or bad parenting, but pot.” KidsAmericaRoomsSawsDadDrugGunAdvertisingSmokingPotVillainOnly In AmericaSmoking PotBad Parenting Author:Bill Maher
“I saw a sign that said, 'Watch for children.' I was like, 'That sounds like a fair trade - especially if they're crappy kids.'” IfsChildrenSaidKidsSoundWatchesSawsFairsTradeFair Trade Author:Demetri Martin
“When I was a kid I got no respect. I had no friends. I remember the see-saw. I had to keep runnin' from one end to the other.” EndsKidsRememberSawsRespectNo FriendsNo Respect Author:Rodney Dangerfield
“Saw a lost dog sign with a pic of the dog and a little boy hugging it. I'm assuming the kids safe and we're just focusing on the pooch.” LittlesKidsLostBoysSawsDogSafeAssumingHugLittle BoysLost Dog Author:Dane Cook
“You know, what I didn't know was how many people in the tech world the original movie had such an impression on. That's really interesting to me because a lot of the people who created this technological revolution that we're all living through were kids when Tron came out, and they saw Tron and it impacted them.” PeopleKnowsWorldKidsInterestingSawsRevolutionOriginalsImpressionTechnologicalReally Interesting Author:James Frain
“I want you to think back to when you were a kid. Remember the day you learned you could burn ants with a magnifying glass? Oh, what a great day that was! You got to be God. You decided who lived, who died. I must've burned ants for an hour, just laughing. Then I saw one on my arm. Let me tell you something, when you burn yourself with a magnifying glass, you're on your own. You can't even tell your mom, because she gives that face, Oh, he is that stupid.” ThinkingWantGivingKidsRememberFacesHoursLaughingSawsStupidArmsMomDecidedLet MeDiedGlassesBurnedI Want YouAntsYour MomGreat DayMagnifyingMagnifying Glass Author:Bill Engvall
“Just saw an orthodox Jewish kid do 3 pull-ups on the scaffolding. Shattering the previous record.” KidsRecordsSawsOrthodoxShatteringPull UpsScaffolding Author:Gary Gulman
“I realized early on that artifice attracted me to an image more than any other quality - I mean artifice in the sense of staging and heightened color and exaggerated lighting, not a surreal or fictive moment... I think the lighting and feeling of Cinemascope, the movies I saw as a kid, always stayed with me as a kind of glorious vision of reality.” ThinkingKindMeanMomentsFeelingsRealityKidsQualityVisionSawsColorI RealizedGloriousSurrealLightingExaggeratedArtificeStaging Author:Laurie Simmons
“I was a kid in the third grade ... saw a dummy in the toy store. In the '60s and '70s there were a lot of those vinyl ventriloquism dummies - just about every toy store had one. Everyone close to my age that I've talked to, especially guys for some reason, tell me that they had one too, but they said they never could do it. So many people come up to me and say that. It was just something that I thought was cool. I started doing book reports with it - I developed the skill. I easily got A's on all my reports. It was just something that a little kid grasped on to - so I stuck with it.” PeopleLittlesSaidBookReasonKidsAgeGuySawsSkillsThirdsCome UpStoresStuckReportsGradesToysThey SaidLittle KidVinylDummyThird GradeVentriloquism Author:Jeff Dunham
“My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I used to buzz it. And my mother played piano and sang in the church choir for different functions. So there was always music in the house, jazz, gospel, or whatever. Especially jazz records.” DifferentPlayKidsUsedMotherFoundFatherHouseChurchRecordsSawsFunctionJazzPianoChoirBuzzMouthpieceChurch ChoirJazz Records Author:Johnny Griffin
“My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids' reaction to that divorce.” KidsTalkingSawsWifeFansDivorceMy WifeReactionsEngagedHaving Kids Author:Kevin Hart
“I actually saw a kid and went home and drew him. I don't even know who he was. I was buying a TV set in Circuit City. I was looking at this kid and he was kind of standing there, staring off into space. Kids are pretty chubby nowadays because of all the fast-food places. I grew up eating fast food but now everything is double beef and double cheese. So there are a lot of these chubby boys with long, baggy shorts.” KnowsKindLongHomeKidsSpaceCitiesBoysSawsTvsGrewEatingGrew UpStandingStaringBuyingCheeseBeefCircuitsFast FoodShortsStanding ThereEating Fast Food Author:Mike Judge
“I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans.” KnowsMadeKidsSawsFansAutographs Author:Joan Jett
“I went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously started making music was when this one kid joined our class. He was an amazing pianist and would come up with all these ideas. I've always had a really competitive side, so I saw him doing that, and was like, "I have to try writing songs as well."” ThinkingWritingTryingFirstsWellsIdeasKidsSchoolSongSidesClassBoysGrowing UpSawsGrowingFirst TimeCome UpWriting SongsChoirPianist Author:St. Lucia
“When I think back, I felt like I had the life that a lot of white American kids grew up with in the suburbs in the States. I started noticing, as Apartheid's grip weakened, that we had more and more black kids at school; I had more and more black friends. But I never really saw a separation between myself and the black kids at school.” ThinkingStatesKidsSchoolFeltBlackWhiteSawsGrewGrew UpSeparationNoticingSuburbsApartheid Author:St. Lucia
“When I was a kid I thought I saw a ghost in the forest when I was on a bush walk, like a walk through the forest. I saw something weird pass from one side of the track to the other, and it was sort of a white, blurry... it's hard to describe, really, something that was almost see-through but it just moved in front of me. It was definitely something you could tell was there, and it really freaked me out. I think I was probably 10, and I ran all the way home.” ThinkingWayHardHomeKidsSidesWhiteWalksSawsFrontsMovedTrackGhostForestsRanWay HomeBlurry Author:Rhys Darby
“I saw a lot of people taking the wrong routes, coming up as a kid, just doing the wrong things.” PeopleKidsSawsRoutesWrong Things Author:Akeem Ayers
“The only movies I saw till I was 17 were made by Disney. My parents had this thing. Disney was like, you know, "Ford is a good car. Disney makes good movies that are good for kids and safe."” KnowsMadeKidsParentSawsCarLike YouSafeGood Movie Author:Geena Davis
“I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.” WorldWould BeKidsSawsGrewGrew UpCarefreeHappy Kid Author:Angelina Jolie
“My mom used to sell Avon when my mom was a kid for about three years, and so it was like the first make up I saw. And when I first found out about makeup it was Avon makeup and I remember putting my mom's red lipstick on my cheeks and thinking that is where it went, and that was Avon. So it's weird how your life turns out and how things come round, and it is brilliant.” ThinkingYearsFirstsKidsRememberUsedTurnsThreeFoundSawsMomRedSellsRoundsMy MomBrilliantMakeupThree YearsCheeksLipstickRed LipsRed LipstickAvon Author:Gemma Arterton
“I saw an interview with Keith Richards. He said, 'How else could a kid in Dartford suddenly connect with and understand what Muddy Waters is singing?' There's a cultural difference, but there's just something in that music that subconsciously or internally you just understand; it just makes sense.” SaidKidsWaterDifferencesSawsSingingMake SenseInterviewsMuddyKeithCultural Differences Author:Paul Weller
“Pages were always supposed to be off-camera - we were supposed to be invisible. But I had a moment where I saw a kid who was ready to flip himself out of the balcony, so I ran down and grabbed him and put him back in his seat. I remember the stage manager taking me aside and saying, "Can you please never do that again? I know you were saving his life, but we have you in the shot."” KnowsMomentsKidsRememberSawsStageReadyPleasePagesShotsDown AndCamerasInvisibleSavingManagersSupposed To BeRanSeatsFlipBalconiesStage Managers Author:Anne Sweeney