Wes Craven Quotes

Until I was about ten, I wasn't that good. I just had loads of energy and loved running around.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?

I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid.

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.

If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.

'Tree Fu Tom' is a truly interactive programme because it is designed to help children get up off the sofa and physically move, which is a very important part of children's development.

I've always had a knack for hitting the mark perfectly. Even when I'm walking or running, I'm very good at not having to look down.

When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.

I look at my little girl and I wonder what she's going to be and what she's going to do and what is it that leads girls certain directions in life. I think a lot of that goes back to what kind of father they had, and so it makes me want to be the best dad I can possibly be.

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.

I felt like I was better at football than I am in basketball.

I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do.

Yes, some women are funny. No, some women aren't funny. It's similar to how some women are tall and, you know, some women are short.

While dancing you have to be feminine, and performing action requires you to be masculine.

Running with your hands behind your back is so hard.

Hand-eye coordination and reflexes is something I work on more than anything.

Obviously, I'm coordinated and whatnot.

My mum says that, when I was a couple of months old and couldn't even stand up yet, I'd try and kick a ball. She knew I'd be into football. Maybe I was just destined to do this.

Eleventh grade is when I grew into my body. My athleticism and speed took off.