When I'm on the road traveling, the things I miss most are my two children and barbecuing with friends. Rack of ribs, lamb and veal are my specialties.
My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.
There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens.
I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.
If people grow things themselves, their children understand, then schools in the area know that this community's generating something with its own energy, to consume.
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.
Successful creative adults seem to combine the wide-ranging exploration and openness we see in children with the focus and discipline we see in adults.
We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.
The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly.
If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents.
One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.
I never 'shunned' L.A., like people say. And I do think you can raise children well there, but it's definitely harder.
The most incredible thing about being a parent is seeing your own personality come out in your children.
Just as in policing there is an emphasis on civilians to help with paperwork, we must free up trained and experienced social workers to focus on children, not bureaucracy.
Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.
We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.
I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
