Children quotes

“Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Truman Capote

“I shouldn't have encouraged her but you know what little children are like these days. They just don't know when to stop pretending.”
Skandar Keynes - Edmund Pevensie

“- Myron Larabee: As if I didn't have enough trouble, my son sends me out for some goofy-butt toy. Some fruity robot named Turtle Man.
- Howard Langston: It's Turbo Man. My son wants one, too.”
Sinbad - Myron Larabee
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Howard Langston

“- Devonia Peet: If you ask me, what these children need is a little discipline.
- Alice Newton: What these children need is their mother.”

Laurel Cronin - Devonia Peet
Bonnie Hunt - Alice Newton

“I know every kid thinks his dad is invincible.”
Kurt Russell - Steve Stronghold

“- Olympias: You would be forty. Old, and wise. Like Parmenion. And Philip's young son would be twenty. Like you, now. But raised by him. His blood. He will never give you the throne now, Alexander, never.
- Alexander: What would you have me do?
- Olympias: Whatever is necessary.”

Angelina Jolie - Olympias
Colin Farrell - Alexander

“- Darcy Elliot Bobrucz: How could you name our baby Theodosia?
- Stan Bobrucz: We needed a name for a the birth certificate, I asked you what you wanted!
- Darcy Elliot Bobrucz: It sounds like a greek fishing boat, or a crater on the moon or something!”
Molly Ringwald - Darcy Elliot Bobrucz
Randall Batinkoff - Stan Bobrucz

“Seems to me like you all were in such a hopped-up hurry to get out of the city that you turned your kids into exactly what you were trying to get away from.”
Lane Smith - Sloan

“- Nancy Huff: What about you Tiffany, what did you get for Christmas?
- Tiffany: I got this Mikimoto pearl necklace, but next year I'm gonna ask Santa for breast implants because I'm impatient with my body.”

Mary Steenburgen - Nancy Huff
Elizabeth Yozamp - Tiffany

“Kids... always a disappointment.”
Robert Englund - Freddy Krueger

- Sam: Would we be playing it like little kids like... like "La-la-la. I'm a little kid?".
- Beverly Franco: Well, you wouldn't be playing it like a little retarded kid but yes, you would be acting youthful.
Paul Weitz - Sam
Lupe Ontiveros - Beverly Franco

“- Jared: Got kids?
- Elliot Moore: No.
- Jared: How come? You got... a problem?
- Elliot Moore: No. She wanted to wait.
- Jared: Really? For what?
- Elliot Moore: For me to grow up.”
Robert Bailey Jr. - Jared
Mark Wahlberg - Elliot Moore

“- Mr. Potter: Have you put any real pressure on these people of yours to pay those mortgages?
- Pa Bailey: Times are bad, Mr. Potter. A lot of these people are out of work.
- Mr. Potter: Well, then, foreclose.
- Pa Bailey: I can't do that. These families have children.
- Mr. Potter: They're not my children.”
Lionel Barrymore - Mr. Potter
Samuel S. Hinds - Pa Bailey

“- Albert: I've raised my kids.
- Mollie: Raised them? They're 11 and 9. Don't tell me they've moved out and gotten jobs already!”
George Segal - Albert
Kirstie Alley - Mollie

“- Lonnie Ritter: Kids today are amazing. I played winter ball down in Venezuela, they had kids half his age, every one of them speaking Spanish. That's a hard language.
- Lou Collins: They speak Spanish in Venezuela.
- Lonnie Ritter: I know! That's my point!”
Joseph Latimore - Lonnie Ritter
Timothy Busfield - Lou Collins

“- James West: Gordon, when you tell this story to your grandkids, you be sure to leave this part out.
- Artemus Gordon: Don't worry.”

Will Smith - James West
Kevin Kline - Artemus Gordon

“- Tina Shenk: Is Jake your only child?
- Kate Baker: Oh no. We have 12.
- Tom Baker: I couldn't keep her off of me.”
Paula Marshall - Tina Shenk
Bonnie Hunt - Kate Baker
Steve Martin - Tom Baker

“Isn't it about time you go nappy-poo in beddy-bye land?”
Vin Diesel - Shane Wolfe

“- Baron: Is there a more beautiful expression of what is good in this country of ours than the innocent voices of our children?
- Herr Zeller: Oh, come now, Baron, would you have us believe that Austria alone holds a monopoly on virtue?
- Captain von Trapp: Herr Zeller, some of us prefer Austrian voices raised in song to ugly German threats.”
Ben Wright - Herr Zeller
Christopher Plummer - Captain von Trapp

“- Jack Byrnes: We use the Ferber method.
- Bernie Focker: We use the Focker method. We hugged and kissed that little boy like there was no tomorrow. We Fockerized him.”
Robert De Niro - Jack Byrnes
Dustin Hoffman - Bernie Focker

“- Timothy: Momma I'm tired of being in bed. I wanna get up.
- Mrs. Brisby: Well, you're not getting up.”
Ian Fried - Timothy
Elizabeth Hartman - Mrs. Brisby

“It's so sweet. He looks just like a little entrée.”

Anjelica Huston - Morticia Addams

“- Air Conditioner: We've been dumped! Abandoned!
- Blanky: But he loved us.
- The Radio: That's right.
- Air Conditioner: So what? He's a kid. He has a family. They move away, he moves away. It's a packaged deal.”
Phil Hartman - Air Conditioner
Timothy E. Day - Blanky
Jon Lovitz - Radio

“What I heard then was the melody of children at play, nothing but that. And I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that chorus.”
Jeremy Irons - Humbert Humbert

“- John Leary: You have to trust me.
- Gordon Layton: Why?
- John Leary: Because I can't lose my kids.”

Danny DeVito - John Leary
Carl Gabriel Yorke - Gordon Layton