All Quotes

When you're a kid, you don't want to be teased.
‐‐ Rebel Wilson

When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.
‐‐ AnnaSophia Robb

When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.'
‐‐ David Johansen

When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.
‐‐ Hugo Weaving

When you're a kid you just think about where you are going to be to put yourself in a position for the next scoring chance. But as you develop, you start to do things that may not catch the eye of the normal football watcher, the dropping back, the closing down.
‐‐ Michael Owen

When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don't have a thought in your mind. It's purely meditation, and we lose that.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

When you're a kid, you might be picked on for your differences. When you're an adult, employers, colleges, friends - people look for differences when you're adult, and that's what makes you shine and stand out.
‐‐ Crystal Bowersox

When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that.
‐‐ Tavi Gevinson

When you're a kid, you're not as corrupted by the world at large. You're not corrupted by prejudices. You're much more open-minded. Much more interested in the world around you. 'Sweet Tooth' is about the world returning to that kind of place.
‐‐ Jeff Lemire

When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.
‐‐ Theophilus London

When you're a kid, you read about this glamorous acting world, but actually it's really unglamorous.
‐‐ Jodie Whittaker

When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.
‐‐ Fred Durst

When you're a kid, you think 'Oh, it's so great. I'm going to go to Hollywood. I'm going to go to Broadway.' For a long time, it was such a novelty.
‐‐ Reggie Lee

When you're a kid, you want to be a millionaire.
‐‐ Rickey Henderson

When you're a kid, your first five or six years, you converge all the time. School is about training that out of you, especially universities.
‐‐ Lawrence Weschler

When you're a leader, you cannot ignore parts of your constituency, even if you know they're not going to vote for you.
‐‐ Keith Ellison

When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.
‐‐ Samuel Witwer

When you're a litigator, you write so much, so many briefs, over and over again, that you're kind of really focused on one document and have draft after draft, and really pay attention to every single word.
‐‐ Greg Poehler

When you're a little fat boy in any kind of school, you're just persecuted something awful.
‐‐ Raymond Burr

When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.
‐‐ Robert Knepper

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
‐‐ Eminem

When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.
‐‐ Patrick Stump

When you're a man you try and be macho.
‐‐ Frank Bruno

When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers it's coming from their soul and their core. But with me it does come from my soul and my core, and my soul and my core often go AWOL, and then I've nothing to write.
‐‐ Marian Keyes

When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.
‐‐ Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

When you're a model, you learn how to make the most of your assets - in my case, the smallish behind that is the legacy of my half-Japanese heritage.
‐‐ Marie Helvin

When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
‐‐ Faith Hill

When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
‐‐ Faith Hill

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.
‐‐ Michael Caine

When you're a music celebrity, your fans are used to spending money on you. They go to your shows. They want to look like you. They want to be like you. You become part of their life.
‐‐ Charles Koppelman

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.
‐‐ Trey Anastasio

When you're a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.
‐‐ Theophilus London

When you're a parent, you sing better. It becomes a pure pleasure, rather than something I have to do.
‐‐ Celine Dion

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.
‐‐ Shirley Temple

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again.
‐‐ Paula Cole

When you're a plus-sized girl, belts are your best friends. I also love bright colors and skirts, to show my pretty knees.
‐‐ Loni Love

When you're a politician, someone always wants something from you, so they're constantly telling you how smart or great you are, and that can warp people! Exercising humility is important to me. My friends back home treat me like the same person I was when I was waiting tables.
‐‐ Aaron Schock

When you're a pop star, it's a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.
‐‐ Beyonce Knowles

When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.
‐‐ Abby Wambach

When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
‐‐ Valerie Simpson

When you're a 'product' for a lot of people, they're only really after one thing, and so it's hard to completely let down your guard.
‐‐ Jesse McCartney

When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long.
‐‐ Sharon Stone

When you're a regular on your show, that's your family. When people come in and out, it doesn't mean that you don't embrace them, but they have to leave.
‐‐ Melinda McGraw

When you're a Republican Latino, you're traveling uphill on a lonely road. Still, it's the road I prefer. It has led me to opportunity far beyond my dreams. I've worked on eight Republican presidential races, as well as for some of the world's largest corporations, all because the doors of opportunity, not the doors of welfare, were open to me.
‐‐ Lionel Sosa

When you're a restaurant critic, you're not home at night, so breakfast became really important for us.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

When you're a screenwriter working on a film, you're not really even welcome on set, even if you know... When I wrote 'Elizabeth' and Shekhar Kapur was a friend of mine, but I wasn't really welcome on set, because the director is God and it's a very difficult position for a screenwriter who's put so much passion into that, into the writing.
‐‐ Michael Hirst

When you're a self-made man, you start very early in life. In my case it was at 9 years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited.
‐‐ Kirk Kerkorian

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox

When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.
‐‐ Billy Sherwood

When you're a soul singer, I'm singing a lot of songs about love and relationships that I think a lot of girls really relate to. For whatever reason, that seems to get 'em excited. The DJ, everyone always says the DJ gets all the chicks, but that's never been my experience.
‐‐ Mayer Hawthorne

When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.
‐‐ Dean Norris

When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
‐‐ Aasif Mandvi

When you're a star, critics can't make or break you.
‐‐ Patricia McBride

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you're a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.
‐‐ Amy Poehler

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.
‐‐ Carlton Cuse

When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
‐‐ Halsey

When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
‐‐ Veronica Roth

When you're a teenager, you could do a lot more crazy things, and your body recovers faster.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh

When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
‐‐ Nas

When you're a teenager, your essence is so specific to being a teenager, and everything becomes so extreme. Your emotions are on the surface, and you oscillate between different things at one time.
‐‐ Bel Powley