Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.
I used to say, 'Are you kidding?' about some prices for collectibles. I don't anymore because anything that screams its era is collectible.
I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles.
People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.
Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.
As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I don't let myself get bored. I just go surfing.
I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.
Vegas represents the idea of America I had as a kid. The big cars, the pretty girls; everything is possible in Vegas.
I'm never sure how to rank these things, but I will say that it has been a dream of mine ever since I was a kid to play for the Queen of England. Preferably in the throne room.
The interesting part is that most of the kids I speak to have grown up watching 'Full House', so they feel like they know me and can talk to me.
The biggest problem I have doing my acting is having to interact with other people. I think if it wasn't for my wife and my kids, I'd probably be a hermit.
The jazz clubs wind up having only rich tourists - the kids can't come. If they do, then they spend their entire monthly allotments on a 45-minute set.
I know what I want to look like. I don't want to look trashy. I want mothers to be able to look at me and not have to close their kids' eyes!
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.
I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.
If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.
When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.
I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn't be one for kids - is the worry that 'my parents wont be there.'
I know Andy Roddick's probably tired about me talking about how many times I beat him when we were kids.
As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.
