Quotes About Responsibility

Religion. Hmm. I guess it's like fire. In good hands, fire can be used to do positive things, like keep you warm. Make s'mores. In bad hands, it can burn a witch at the stake. Lynch a Black body.

Adulthood is a lie, Audre. We're all just tall toddlers.

I cut myself. He didn't do it. And I'd been taking drugs—your drugs, or getting them from your boyfriends—my whole life. I wasn't your innocent little baby.

My mom told me. And you were young and scared and trying to be tough—and I promised you that you'd never go back. I promised. And she sent you back." She gulped dryly. "Shane, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry for everything I said yesterday. I'm sorry for blaming you for all these years. For hating you. I hated you so much.

The burden isn't on me to explain it, Rich. The burden's on y'all to fix it. Good luck.

I know you twist history to make things easier for you, but I've never made you do anything. Do you ever think about your role in all of this?

You don't promise things to kids and then disappear.

Shane and Eva were her writer children. And as their mama, she had a right to get to the bottom of their situationship.

Go 'head and judge me, miss. I fear nothing but the pitiless gaze of the Almighty. You could be Mommie Dearest or Clair Huxtable—don't matter what kind of mother you are; daughters always blame moms for every mess they make.

And then, for the first time ever, Shane ignored what he desperately wanted and made his first truly responsible decision.

To his credit, he knew this was a terrible idea. To his discredit, he was doing it anyway.

A person who escapes from an unhealthy family system while others remain mired within it may experience what is referred to as "survivor's guilt." The guilt one feels of being the one who "got away" while others may not have been able to.

Nice seeing you, Eddie. We must have lunch sometime.' I've always found it curious how many people, when they are clearly in an unrivalled physical and mental state to arrange a lunch or drink, don't do so, but merely say that they should.

No, but it's your reality now. Put on your big-boy pants and deal with it.

I know that if I ever have the audacity to blame fate or God for holding a gun to my temple, I also have the wherewithal to remind myself that if I end up with a hole in my head, I was the one who pulled the trigger.

I just want to sleep with a clear conscience and wake up with the ability to look at myself in the mirror. I also want my life to be my own. Even if it's a shitty goddamn life, it's still mine.

Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our own hands.

Jacob, if you want the milk, you have to buy the cow a meal.

For what it's worth, I don't go out of my way to be difficult. I just want to sleep with a clear conscience and wake up with the ability to look at myself in the mirror. I also want my life to be my own. Even if it's a shitty goddamn life, it's still mine.

I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.

I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.

All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.