Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.
As a kid, I loved Paula Poundstone and Richard Pryor. But my mother was a huge influence on my comedy.
The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagabond' by Takehiko Inoue.
I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action.
I knew I'd have to go to Paris eventually, and I didn't want to be the provincial kid who just turns up and says, 'I want to act.'
I'm not a parent yet, but I feel like a kid needs to be loved.
I've loved acting and dancing since I was a kid. Before anyone thought I was pretty or before I had a voluptuous figure, that was what I was going to do.
I was a mime. I'm not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.
I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids.
I don't think that growing up in the entertainment industry is the healthiest place for kids. The track record kind of shows that.
I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.
I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'
When I see my kids totally into their Legos, it brings me back to the days I was hanging out and playing with my monster models. It brings me there in a second.
I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected.
The reason I haven't had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break.
I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.
War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up some failure on the part of the adults.
That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.
For a quick, healthy meal that's also fun for kids, I serve fish tacos: soft tortillas, lettuce, tomatoes, black beans and brown rice.
I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.