Willow Shields Quotes

As the younger brother, I think you always have crushes on your older brother's girlfriends.

My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.

I had an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother, and though I look back fondly on my childhood, I think that when you've got four siblings sharing the same resources and a single kids' bathroom, it's going to get a little tense at times.

My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?

Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.

Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

I think one of the great strengths of 'The Flash' is just how close everyone is on the show. They tend not to have these raging conflicts, like what we keep giving everybody on 'Arrow.' That show is more of a soap opera, and I don't say that derogatorily.

I noticed that when my daughter was born, my son really, really liked her. But then as she started getting older, and as she started crawling around our house and touching different things that were his, sibling rivalry issues started appearing.

The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.

When you've got a teenager and a pre-teen, especially a son and a daughter, and they're going at each other at the table, all you really want is just five minutes of quiet, but sometimes I have a moment during the chaos when I think, 'Yes, this is good.'

I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.

I think I was a behavior problem, mostly, but in a fun way. I tried to tell jokes. I was the middle kid, so I was always looking for attention and trying to be the one that equalized everything.

We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.

One of my favorite things about playing Avery Jennings on 'Dog With a Blog' is that I get to play a real teenager who deals with everyday issues.

It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.

Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition.

It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

I grew up with a younger brother, so I can get pretty rowdy.

A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.

My sister was born a couple years after I was, and I realized that I wasn't getting enough attention, as much attention as I used to before she showed up, and then I learned pretty early on that if I could do a silly dance or make grown-ups laugh, then the attention would come back to me, and I would be accepted.

When you're the younger brother, usually it's not that common that you're having these experiences that your older brother is in awe of.

When I was a teenager I didn't really care about music especially with my sister being so successful, I was able to experience it through her.

I started karate in middle school when my parents wanted me to babysit my younger brother. He was a little troublemaker, so they wanted me to make sure the class was going okay. I ended up being way more into it than my brother.

Cooper and Peyton really competed a lot, they fought a lot. But Eli was so much younger. He's the little brother.

My sister had her own room. She also had innumerable boyfriends. I had a yo-yo collection that was beyond belief, and the reason I had it was mostly that I would stand in the doorway of the living room watching her and her boyfriend. Finally she caught on how to get this kid out of the way. Give him a yo-yo!