Tim Allen Kids Quotations

I look at it this way: How much of the day are you awake? You think, "I've gotta get that dry cleaning, I gotta get this going, and this, and this, and this." And all of a sudden it's dinnertime. And then there's a moment of connection with your spouse or your friends. Then you read and go to bed. Wake up and then it's the same all over. You're not awake, you're not living, you're not experiencing. We start early medicating ourselves. We start kids early, on TV and video games and so on.

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.

Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

The ego is like a kid in the basement: It's best to keep him busy.

What causes sibling rivalry?" "Having more than one kid.

My stepfather stepped in where no man would've stepped in - six kids, five of them boys - and that's heroic.

Jill, we became parents so we could tell our kids what to do. Otherwise we're just the tallest people living here.

The greatest missile in the world is useless ... unless it's targeted. A torpedo is adrift unless it has someplace to go. An arrow is pointless unless it hits something. So it's important for kids--for everyone, even if you fail at first--to target something and head in that direction. With all your might.

Even when I first saw it I thought, 'I don't know if kids are gonna buy this, adults especially not, it's too high tech, it looks too much like a video game,'