Lou Brock Quotes

I think the main thing that affected my comedy was that my dad slept in a nightgown for most of my childhood. And it was just very funny every single night and made me realize that laughter is fun and nightgowns are cool.

I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.

I always, always liked children... I was very afraid of them before. Because I never really grew up, I mean, with a lot of little kids around. Even though I am from a kind of Italian family, I never really grew up with a lot of little kids around.

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife. You know what I mean?

I always wanted my kids to like me and think I was funny, so I made up this story about a kid named Jake and his racecar that he had built from scratch, fully loaded with whatever fantastical gadget he or I wanted him to have at the moment. I loved making up the stories off the top of my head.

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

When I was a boy, I was a worrier, and so was my son, Joe. I used to tell him that worrying meant he had an imagination and that one day he'd be pleased.

Growing up, I loved drama and fantasies. I hated the Marx Brothers. I took all that confusion seriously.

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

'Monsters,' everybody has the thought of monsters in your closet as a kid, and more importantly, the idea of becoming a parent. We're always kind of looking for those emotional nuggets. They're always at the heart of the story.

Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'

Whether it is fear of having fish pie or staying in someone's house or not being able to tell the time, all of those things I can remember very clearly. We so often forget how big all these things are for very small children because they are so often trying these things for the first time.

I wasn't brave enough to read the R. L. Stine book series when I was younger. But my brother read as many of them as he could.

I grew up with interesting and funny people. We made our own fun. You had to use your imagination.

I tried writing a song and it wasn't very good. I sung it to my mom and she told me it was bad - but I was eight, so it's okay.

I was a kid with a lot of dreams. And my parents encouraged me in every possible way.

The Wicked Witch of the West really scared me as a child.

My fear in life, I don't have any kind of specifics like snakes or spiders or anything but I think if I was covered in buttermilk naked running down the street being chased by Gandalf, I'd say, or I don't know, I'm just making it up!

Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something.

My dad told me that when I was born my cheeks were so fat the doctors didn't know which end to spank.

I do believe in monsters oddly enough. I think they're under my bed. But aliens are ridiculous; monsters I think are real completely though.

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.