#kids

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones. ↗

— Ben Okri

#another #dream #else #everybody #everybody else

Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#battlefields #civil #civil war #continue #during

And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#became #become #being #cool #course

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#acting #done #fifties #getting #homework

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square. I saw a kid walk into a restaurant the other day and his belt was below his backside. I would have turned him away. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#acting #away #backside #below #belt

I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#being #being famous #career #covet #dinner

I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#books #buses #everywhere #harry #harry potter

I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#bit #deal #early #focus #great

I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#bed #good #i #kids #off

So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#around #came #harry #harry potter #i