A lot of comedians get a bad rep once they have kids and that's all they talk about, and people are like, 'I don't want to hear about your kids!' I'm like, 'Prepare yourselves. That's all I'm going to talk about.'
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Related I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL I don't like to talk about myself. I like to talk about stuff that's happening, stuff that... FRED WILSON Man, I'm 31 years old and a husband with four kids; I hope I'm no thug. I hear all those neg... ALLEN IVERSON I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family ... OZZY OSBOURNE If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian ... TOM CRUISE It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to ... HENRY ROLLINS Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids ... BILLY BOB THORNTON I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON I'm not like most comedians. I don't deal with just heckles - I'm also dealing with thre... HARI KONDABOLU It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only th... ABEL FERRARA I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that... STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,' and that's the only fi... ALAN RICKMAN I'm one of the people that, when I hear Republicans talk about repealing Obamacare, I just want ... GARY JOHNSON Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indi... MINDY KALING I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories... CAMERON CROWE I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do ... ADELE My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, 'L... JUDITH JAMISON The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am wha... ELIZABETH WARREN I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when w... KELLY CUTRONE I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don'... PEYTON MANNING I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that ... MICHELLE OBAMA If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinkin... MICHAEL J. FOX People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer secu... DAN FARMER It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places a... DAN BROWN There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, an... ZOOEY DESCHANEL It doesn't matter about money and fame and whatever. I really don't care about that. My thin... ATTICUS SHAFFER I don't follow trends. I'm a trendsetter. I represent all the younger generations; fly kids,... TYGA It's so funny because when I talk about fashion and menswear designers, it's really like a s... ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,... TEMPLE GRANDIN It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a... TERRY PRATCHETT When I'm rapping, like, a turn up song, I'm thinking about what the people want to hear; thi... TINK I'm not a great actor - let's face it. I don't have a great deal of scope. There are cer... STEVE MCQUEEN I'm so stupid because I refuse to think that I'm getting older. I get up in the morning, and... CHARO It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh... CLARENCE THOMAS When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 ... MEGAN FOX What I get really excited about are movies that I connect with emotionally. 'Deliverance' wa... KATIE ASELTON I just feel like every kid is growing up too fast and they're seeing too much. Everything is abo... ELLEN DEGENERES It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of direc... XAVIER DOLAN I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, an... JOSS WHEDON I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to chang... MARY ROACH I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to... LAURA TROTT People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find th... MEGAN FOX Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect... AVRIL LAVIGNE I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting... ZACK GREINKE I'm a prize fighter. Titles don't pay bills. I fight for money. I'm making money. They... BROCK LESNAR People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. ... ANDIE MACDOWELL We didn't shoot in 3-D. They've talked about doing a conversion and there's been a lot o... ZACK SNYDER You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't... CALLIE KHOURI I just don't talk about who I'm going out with, that's it. It's an odd thing to sit ... RADHA MITCHELL I think whenever people talk about the 'Anna Sui woman,' they're talking about someone t... ANNA SUI I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do ... ROSIE O'DONNELL Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay,... DYLAN MCDERMOTT I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good thin... DAVID MORSE I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in jo... EMMA CAULFIELD I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood.... GARRETT CLAYTON I want to be an NBA all-star and help my team win. That's what it's all about, is winning. I... SHABAZZ MUHAMMAD People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids... TORI SPELLING Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely ... BENNY GREEN Guys wake up at your place and they expect breakfast. They don't eat bagels and M&M's in... ELAYNE BOOSLER I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really ... AARON RODGERS I don't necessarily want to know what people are saying when I'm not around, especially if i... LAURA VANDERVOORT I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They ... NAIMA ADEDAPO It's about learning what's important and what's not important, and at the end of the day... AUBREY PEEPLES I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not an... SYD BARRETT I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, th... LANCE BASS I don't like getting myself in hot water. But suddenly I find that every minute I have to stop a... JOANNE WOODWARD If I talk to a girl, it's assumed that I'm having a scene with her. If I don't, then it&... SHAH RUKH KHAN All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that th... FREIDA PINTO I think there are different kinds of comedians, and I prefer the clowns who are going: 'I'm ... MIRANDA HART I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'T... ZARA LARSSON It's no accident that I'm not married and don't have kids yet. SHEMAR MOORE I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're s... IDRIS ELBA That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want ... FRAN TARKENTON The older I get, for me it's about fear. If I read something and it scares the hell out of me, t... ALAINA HUFFMAN I want people to have a good impression of Israel. I don't feel like I'm an ambassador for m... GAL GADOT I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a cert... PAIGE VANZANT
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