If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with their homework and remember how to do simple math. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.
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Related Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Homework's hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ... ANGELINA JOLIE It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Yes, I help my kids with their homework. But I also get bored doing it. I will sit and listen to my ... KATE HUDSON Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, t... JACKIE ROBINSON 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 School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn. Ma... LEONARDO DICAPRIO If the team's winning, I'm going to do whatever I can to help the team, whether that's f... CARSON WENTZ I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too ... OTTO FRANK I don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not h... STEVE CARELL I think kids should go to high school until they're 30. No, really, because people are staying y... ANDY WARHOL I think it's funny how excited people can get about things I say that don't have anything to... RON POPE So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I ca... CARRIE UNDERWOOD Everybody always talks about how they can't wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their... CARLY SCHROEDER When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next... DOLLY PARTON And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see wh... PAM GRIER I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as tha... OLIVIA COLMAN I'm excited about going back to 'Today,' but, at odd moments, I'll grit my teeth in ... JANE PAULEY It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and... SARAH JESSICA PARKER My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can... NATASCHA MCELHONE I think the kids are just excited about Pitt football. Some remember back to when Pitt was great, an... GREG GATTUSO I love the fact that little kids think I'm a witch. A mum might come over and say 'I'm s... NATALIA TENA Every time I do a play, it's as if I've never done one before. I'm always confused. I al... CRISTIN MILIOTI I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can&... TARA REID I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm do... HAROLD SIMMONS What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm c... LEONARD NIMOY I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier. ELIZABETH VARGAS I'm quite curious and excited about seeing a new script for 'Blade Runner.' If, in fact,... HARRISON FORD I'm claustrophobic. I can't go into haunted houses. They have these tight, dark, enclosed sp... MARK CONSUELOS If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's... KARA HAYWARD I'm so stupid because I refuse to think that I'm getting older. I get up in the morning, and... CHARO I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to sa... DAVID BOWIE It's what I do best - pry into people's business and mind their business. I can't help m... DELILAH Looking back on humanity's battle with pollution, history has been made by thousands of ordinary... CHAI JING I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how ... LUPITA NYONG'O I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my e... WHITNEY HOUSTON I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to co... GEOFFREY CANADA I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like t... RANDY TRAVIS I don't really do simple. I'm not really interested in simple at the end of the day, because... KATE WINSLET Personally, I've always known that I wanted to go back to work because I'm confident, and I&... LISA LING I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't ... ELLEN BARKIN I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature... ANDY SERKIS I can't remember how to cry. SHERMAN ALEXIE I trust myself. I trust my instincts. I know what I'm gonna do, what I can do, what I can't ... CARRIE FISHER I've been recognized a couple times. I get people staring at me, and I think in their heads they... ELIZA COUPE You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not t... STEVE CARELL I'm in the middle of my own 'Project Runway' challenge given to me by my daughter's ... BUSY PHILIPPS It's coaches. It's people that are involved in kids' lives at every level, and it's ... DONNA SHALALA When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to... TARAJI P. HENSON I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: ... SAMUEL L. JACKSON When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm u... NATE HOLLAND I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an... ALBERT FINNEY Every now and then, when I think about it, I think, 'What would I even talk about onstage?' ... EDDIE MURPHY If it's old school friends that my parents know, then I can stay out till late. But if they don&... TENA DESAE I just don't see myself as retiring. As long as I'm healthy and can play the drums, that'... BILL KREUTZMANN I think it's a shame that the day somebody hears about a shooting, the first thing they think ab... STEVE SCALISE I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Th... JACK NICHOLSON They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageab... IGGY AZALEA I'm going to go back to the Bay Area, this is my thing, and I'm just going to open my own sc... BARRY BONDS I don't sense that I am someone's hero, though I'm happy when people like my work. I'... ALAN ARKIN I was elected to solve problems, and I don't think it's conservative to have bad roads; I do... BRIAN SANDOVAL I do love Instagram, and my kids are with me, like, 24-7, so it's inevitable that they'll be... BRITNEY SPEARS Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely ... BENNY GREEN Once I've ascertained that I'm safe and I'm with a director who is taking care of me, th... JULIANNE MOORE I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers... NELSON ALGREN I guess it's because I do have a younger audience that, you know, parents worry about the role m... BRITNEY SPEARS I think it's important to have scaling challenge because there are players who I feel play '... MARC LAIDLAW I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I'm not involved in their careers because ... DIANA ROSS I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I... JACLYN SMITH The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my rank... VENUS WILLIAMS Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about ho... ANNE TYLER If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've ... RIHANNA Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, ... JACK OSBOURNE I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, 'Do what I do.' I think it&... KIM KARDASHIAN I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be t... GEORGE CLOONEY I'm not trying to be a role model to kids, because I don't have any children, but I do think... CHELSEA HANDLER If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it. DAVID SCHWIMMER Even though I don't have a lot of spare time, what I do have I'm very protective of, and so ... CLARISSA WARD It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I lov... JULIA STILES I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, ... HARI KUNZRU I'm stuck with being No. 32 for the Cleveland Browns. I can't do anything about that, and I ... JIM BROWN If I sleep in and don't run, I'll feel a little bit off because I didn't do what I was s... VALERIE BERTINELLI When I see kids standing next to their mothers at book signings, clutching a copy of 'Forever,... JUDY BLUME It's a good thing to imagine yourself doing something you think you can't. I do that every d... MERYL STREEP I'd watch my parents work and think, 'Yeah, I'm going to do that.' It wasn't eve... DAKOTA JOHNSON I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how... RACHEL GRIFFITHS I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm... DONNY OSMOND Oh, my God. I want to be a mother, and I anticipate loving my children quite fiercely. I think about... ANNE HATHAWAY A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm d... BOB DYLAN This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because... COLIN KAEPERNICK 'Glee' is very easy to clown because I feel like it's just crumbling. 'Smash!' &... RETTA I can't help but view the world mystically. It's how I see it. I'm not a strict material... SCOTT DERRICKSON It's kind of crazy what I can do and what I can't do. It's simple things like rice and q... CHRISSY TEIGEN If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling,... TRACEY EMIN I just want to do good material. If I'm right for it, and it connects with me, and the material ... SAM UNDERWOOD Do you know, if I go to a Jewish school, them kids are quiet. If I go to a white school, them kids q... ERIC D. THOMAS Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means w... BARBARA KRUGER
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