Quotes About Responsibility

The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.

Positive health means becoming whole-heartedly engaged with our own health care. It means not outsourcing our health to the health care system. It means getting rid of the fear and paralysis we too often feel, and instead cultivating a sense of agency.

There's been times I've been paralyzed by guilt when I've had to work crazy hours or miss a parent-teacher interview.

I'm really just trying... to write what feels true to me. I don't think about a lofty responsibility. I think I'd be paralyzed by that. Like any of my male colleagues, I'm writing the stories that interest me in a way that feels true to me.

Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

When you look at the Nixon pardon, the short-term gain would have been never to pardon him.

At work, you're replaceable... but as a parent, you're irreplaceable.

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.

Just because you become a parent doesn't mean you grew up.

No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

Now that I'm a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school.

I definitely had those moments, like any actor, when you get anxious and think, 'When am I going to work again?' But I would feel that way even when I had every offer in the world coming to me. Then I became a father and I felt a little more of the anxiety that came with the responsibility of being a parent.

I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent.

No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.