Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.
My husband and I believe that if you treat a child well and nurture his talent and physical ability, in a healthy environment, the child will succeed no matter what.
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
I just couldn't imagine hitting a child. But in 'The Slap' it's an extreme situation. You have to ask yourself - would you step in if a child was out of control?
I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.
When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage.
Bailey Child - Tommy: Excuse me, excuse me. George Bailey: Excuse you for what? Bailey Child - Tommy: I burped.
I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway.
I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.
I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
One of the most difficult parental challenges is to appropriately discipline children. Child rearing is so individualistic. Every child is different and unique. What works with one may not work with another.
A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.
A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.
Never be boastful; someone may come along who knew you as a child.
Never boast -- you might meet someone who knew you as a child.
A house without a dog, a cat, or a little child is a house without joy or laughter.
When a mother calls her child bastard, you can take her word for it.
Physicality is the basis of performance.
I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me.
