David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too.
Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.
The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.
I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz. ' I was always in the chorus.
The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.
When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.
Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There arent a whole lot of manuals for that.
I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.
When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with life as we know it. I do know that answer to that one: that's called child abuse. When my teenager worries that her generation won't be able to fix this problem, I have to admit to her that it won't be up to her generation. It's up to mine. This is a now-or-never kind of project.
There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.
Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.
He'll die first, we both know it, but I don't know. . . I really don't know how long I'll stay alive without him. That's the part Shaun doesn't know. I don't intend to be an only child for long.
The child must come first above all else. And pace yourself every day. There is quite a lot you will have to give up.
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.
I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.