I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.
Doing a musical is like having a kid. It's out there alive somewhere. It's not like a movie or a TV show where what we intended is what everyone will see. The kid can act out. The kid's going to do what it wants to do.
I did two commercials, one for Porsche, but I was definitely not the type of child one would cast in a commercial or any TV that you'd typically go out for as a young kid. I wasn't the type of kid who would be in stuff that kids watch. I wasn't cutes...
I think the world sort of looks to the kids who have potential. These are the kids who are going to do something with their lives, who are going to do something for the world. I don't think it's malicious, but the other kids get lost from that point ...
Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but...
I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.
I was very shy and I was very introverted as a kid, but whenever I set foot on stage, I kind of opened up, and I think a lot of kids need an outlet to express their creativity. And a lot of kids are scared to do that if there's not a safe environment...
Butch Cassidy: They'll never follow us. Sundance Kid: How do you know? Butch Cassidy: Would you jump if you didn't have to? Sundance Kid: I have to and I'm not gonna.
Card Player #2: I didn't know you were the Sundance Kid when I said you were cheating. If I draw on you, you'll kill me. Sundance Kid: There's that possibility.
Butch Cassidy: How long before you figure they're not after us? Sundance Kid: A while longer. Butch Cassidy: How come you're so talkative? Sundance Kid: Naturally blabby, I guess.
The other kids wanted to play Destiny's Child, but I wanted Anita O'Day.
These are slum kids, I was a slum kid. Everybody talks like that.
I'm just a little kid from Akron.
I don't know how to not be outside since I was a little kid.
When I was a little kid, I was very impressed with Elvis.
Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.
Playtime and toys are good for kids, or they wouldn't buy them. McDonald's can provide that experience. And having dinner with the family is good for kids.
I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.
I don't know if I was a funny kid. I would say I was a loud and weird kid.
Just kidding, I've been very athletic all my life.
I was a pretty feisty young kid.
