I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'd say people recognize me, but having children recognize me is the best. It is a very special thing. Suddenly you feel like you have the power to make the children's dreams come true, and it's better than anything else.
As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.
You start realising as you get older that there are some kids who don't know who you are.
When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.
When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.
A sympathetic parent might see the spark of consciousness in a baby's large eyes and eagerly accept the popular claim that babies are wonderful learners, but it is hard to avoid the impression that they begin as ignorant as bread loaves.
When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.
What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.
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