Quotes About Emotions

You have to be enough of a parent - you have to be there. If I'm feeling bad, I really do just have to get on with it and try and channel it back into my work somehow, do something positive with it.

As a parent, you go through a whole lot of really tough things, and you kind of want other parents to experience those tough things as payback - especially when it's your brother.

I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand.

'Parenthood' has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting.

Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.

My father was the biggest influence on my own parenting because I became the complete opposite to him. He found it very difficult to show physical love, like cuddling and that kind of stuff, so I went the other way.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

Paris is the destination for brokenhearted American women. I think men go there and have their hearts broken, but women come there with their hearts broken.

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.

I feel very much at home in Paris, but I'm attached to New York.

I am a big fan of 'E.T.,' of course. And I remember watching 'Jurassic Park' - I was so into it. Oh, and 'Schindler's List.' That one was amazing, too.

I remember going to a funeral at a very fundamentalist church, and I just had to get out of there. I went out in the parking lot and just sobbed. I think there was a sense of loss of that little boy not knowing if he was right or wrong. Everything I grew up with I had to walk away from.

I remember being in a parking lot, I think it was in New Mexico, I was to be at a shoot-around at 9 A. M. their time. And I got off the phone with Sarah and Matthew and I sat in that parking lot and cried for a little bit. Because I had been away so much. It got to the point where I was calculating how much time I had been away from the kids.

You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

I hate myself and my face in particular.

I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.

I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?

Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.

If you try to breastfeed and it's not working, then you don't feel particularly good about yourself.