I remember watching the Olympics at home as a kid. It was one my Dad's dreams to win an Olympic medal.
When I was a kid - and I don't know why, it's the most random thing - I wanted to be a speech therapist for little kids. I knew I wanted to do something with kids.
My mom and I were super close when I was a kid, her and I sort of ran off from her ex-husband. It wasn't such a good time for us and I remember listening to The Distillers with her. One time I actually asked her, 'Mom, can I shave my head into a mohawk?'
Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.
I was that kid. I was entertaining everybody in the living room and throwing myself down flights of stairs and making the family look special and making my mother feel better and I really wanted to make people happy. That has been my ministry my whole life. I call it The Church of F. F. C. - The Church of Freedom From Concern. And I'm a high priest in that church.
And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. You never had it before and now you have it. What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.
It may come as a surprise to people, but I'm actually quite boring and normal. What do I do? I read books. I drive my kid to school. I have lunch with my wife. I pick my kid up from school. I go home.
I related so much to the responsibility of being a parent, the responsibility of "did you screw your kid up," the responsibility of letting your own parents down.
There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.
I always had a weight issue since I was a young kid.
I didn't read comics as a kid - though, obviously, I've read a lot since.
Kids don't like being put into boxes, and your kid can act in different ways in different situations.
Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.
Paul Gauguin asked, "whence do we come? What are we? Where are we going?" Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I came from my room, I'm a kid with big plans, and I'm going outside! See ya later! Say, who the heck is Paul Gauguin anyway?
It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.
Maybe you're not even in a position to really judge how good your kid is at that endeavor.
I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best. ' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.
When I was a kid, I had a couple of really good friends, like some really good best friends, but I was really shy other than that.
For me [being a kid actor], it's a bit like when you see your mom's friends, and they're like, "I remember when you were this big. You'll always be that cute little kid to me. " It's like that times a thousand. Well, times a couple thousand.