Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.
I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room.
If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years. I still do sometimes.
This was a result of a number of factors, but we do know that the messages kids get about the harms of drugs has a significant impact on their decision on whether or not to use.
There's this mythology that parents are supposed to be parents 24/7 and are supposed to be completely fulfilled by their kids. That's not the case. We need to make our own passions a priority.
It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.
Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing.
I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing things.
People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.
I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.
My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.
I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.
Nobody got Punk'd and he was still in his season for that show when we were filming. So the kids were very aware that it was filming and that was his show and they were very much on the lookout for that.
When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that's what I did.
I loved Wimbledon and what it meant, but the surface felt uncomfortable. I just didn't like it, I was a hard-court guy, a Californian kid.
