Jon Hamm Quotes

I adore children. If I weren't an actor, I would be a teacher or work with small children in some way. I feel happy in their company.

I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the camps through my college.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

When you're in a single-parent home, they try to give you a good foundation, but by the time you're 4 or 5 years old, from that point on you're pretty much on your own.

My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.

I never heard 'I love you' as a child. I never felt pretty or cared for.

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

I was a latchkey kid.

Growing up without love, without being cared for, might be the worst type of poverty.

My pops passed when I was little. I didn't have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn't have my biological mother.

My first job was baby-sitting. I had a great time because I love kids. Sometimes, when I'm having a bad day, I'm like: "Oh, you know what? I'm going to chuck it in and become a kindergarten teacher!"

I felt abandoned at a young age. That's where most of my anger came from, I guess.

I was in my final year in college when I acted in 'Nanda Gokula.'

I am not a father, and the only children that I get close to are my nieces.

I have a lot of nieces and nephews. I was always around kids. I was like the family babysitter because I was the only one that wasn't married.

I worked as a barista and a kindergarten teacher. I really love kids and enjoyed every minute of being in a kindergarten.

Ed Timpson is a fantastic minister for early intervention, and Liz Truss is a fantastic minister for Sure Start.

My father left me when I was 6. My mother tried to take care of all of us on public assistance.

I always like to spend time with the kids, especially with kids who need help. For them and for the parents, to see their smile is always nice.

When I was about eight, my mom started disappearing for days at a time, probably with one of the guys she was dating. There would be no food.

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.

You don’t care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.

When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.