Kerouac was this kid who exemplified something happening.
The one thing that will be the bane of my existence with my kid will probably be the way he or she is most like me in some ways.
When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.
I remember Elvis as a young man hanging around the Sun Studios. Even then, I knew this kid had a tremendous talent. He was a dynamic young boy. His phraseology, his way of looking at a song, was as unique as Sinatra's. I was a tremendous fan, and had Elvis lived, there would have been no end to his inventiveness.
You can have a kid and just be off at work all the time, and it's all mom. But, I spent a lot of time with him, so now, every time I see him, he's like, "Dada!"
When you're a little kid, you want the ball. You don't want to play defense. When you get the ball, basically you can do whatever you want.
Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!
I love working with young artists. Jacob Latimore was the first kid that I auditioned. After he walked out, I turned to my husband and said, "I think that's the kid. I don't know if I have to look any further. He's the one!" He's a real star.
When I was a kid out here in L. A. , I was homeless, I didn't have any money and I was living in my car. I wasn't averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?
I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas.
I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.
I always want to be the best at what I do. As a kid, whatever I was doing, if I was playing football or whatever I was applying my energy to at the time, I always wanted to do it to the best of my abilities. And I was always interested in finding out how I could do it better.
I was far too embarrassed to share the experience of Indian food at school. As a kid, you're desperate to fit in, to assimilate in some way, and everything about me stood out.
Almost everyone working in mainstream comics started off as a starry-eyed kid reading and loving comics. We're all fans, and that's great. But when we start working on company-owned comics professionally, we have to think like storytellers instead of fans. Editors aren't looking to hire the biggest fans of the characters. They're looking to hire the best creators with the best ideas.
I always liked running as a kid. You know how eating chocolate or ice cream makes you feel good? That's the same way that running and competing makes me feel.
Even as a kid- do all kids think about this? I hope they don't, I hope my kids don't think about this- I was always thinking about, "Well, what are we doing? What is this all about?"
In my room as a kid. . . I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.
I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.
I think day care is terrific. Kids get to be around other kids, and they're playing, and they're teaching each other. When I was in college, my summer job was being a preschool teacher. I loved it, and after that experience, I said I can't wait to put my kid in day care because I could see how much they loved it.