"I can reach a kid who doesn't have any ability as long as he doesn't know it."
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"Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves."
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"I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life."
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"I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little kids they want to play, and I don't have time for that.""
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"I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid."
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"When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them."
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"My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then."
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"I'm just a kid. I've got a lot of stuff to do yet."
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"Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time."
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"The government is there day in and day out, if you want all kids to have education, if you want to run courts, if you want to have an army, if you want to have roads, you've got to have the taxation system that funds everything that you expect."
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"Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore."
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"We couldn't sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn't close out well enough."
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"My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids."
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"Do you light up when your kids are coming in the room or do you become the instant critic?"
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"I love acting. I just love it. It's in my bones. I remember when I was a kid, I watched an interview with Dennis Hopper talking about Jimmy Dean on the set of Rebel Without A Cause. Jimmy said to him, "If you've got to cry in a scene, you've got to cry. Make it real." And that's all that I believe in."
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"After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid."
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"I was never an actress -- none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at."
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"Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away."
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"You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway."
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"We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades."
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