Parents Quotes
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The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have.
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My parents went through hell and back. They came to America with suitcases and a family of seven and $250, and that's it.
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For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.
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From the earliest days, we knew that it was not possible to do good work with the little children without the help of their parents.
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I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were very impressed. My reading speed, comprehension and overall ability has remained at that level ever since.
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Both Sheena and I are working parents, and we know how hard it is to balance work and parenting.
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I grew up in Texas City, Texas. I didn't know anybody who was a director or whose parents or grandparents were directors. I met somebody from a nearby town one time whose father had been to the moon - it was far more likely to be an astronaut than it was to be a writer or a director.
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Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.
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Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.
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My mom really instilled in me this idea that parents are not perfect and they make mistakes.
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I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win. I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.
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I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.
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From a certain age, I sort of accepted myself for what I was. And although to other people it was like nothing ever goes right, I had a really nice attitude that I'd inherited from my parents, and especially from my dad.
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I didn't see deep emotion from my parents. It was all very polite and very surface. I never knew how anybody was feeling.
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I've already put my parents through the wringer with a number of my jobs!
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My parents reverted to their Catholic faith through the charismatic renewal, so I was raised charismatic.
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My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make them laugh. And they always told me to dream big and follow those dreams.
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In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself.
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Bathrooms have always been a big issue in my life. My parents fought for me to be able to enroll in elementary school as a girl, which I did. But I still would not be allowed to use the girls' room under any condition.
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When I first started pursuing acting professionally out of college, it was very much in my head that there would be comparisons with potentially both of my parents, and I found that pretty intimidating.
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My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.
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My parents worked very hard for me and my sister.
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Passing on a full scholarship to MIT would be irrational for me, but to my father and his parents, what would have been the point of spending five years at one of the world's most prestigious universities if he just ended up back on the farm?
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Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.
