I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.
Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.
I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.
It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.
I have amazing parents. They had worked hard all their lives for me, and when I started to make money, I wanted to be able to take care of them.
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.
My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It's their fault I've become an actress.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.
...I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness...
This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'...
. . . parent could embarrass their kids during the teenage years, but only a true virtuoso could embarrass them into their twenties and beyond.
If a child cannot place implicit confidence in his parent, most assuredly no confidence can be reposed in the child.
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.
I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.
Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.
This isn't your world. It's your parents. Your world is still out there, waiting to be discovered. Always remember that.
Our children make us so vulnerable. Our parents too, I suppose.
