Quotes About Parents

I would like to spend more time with my parents. I wish they could shift to Mumbai or I could go and spend time with them.

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.

I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and learning to be an artist.

My parents were all about education. My mother was a librarian - she retired after 30 years - and she made sure that we were always at museums, that we went to plays.

Television was restricted by my parents. They encouraged reading more than anything. It wasn't done in a let's-get-educated kind of way, it was: 'This looks like it might be fun so let's do it.' There were a lot of castles, art galleries, museums and mountains to climb.

Well, I was a real late-comer to listen to music, actually, because my parents - first of all, my parents weren't big music fans. They didn't listen to music. We didn't really listen to stuff in the house.

The music scene in Michigan is really folky and bluegrass, but my parents played a lot of disco. They really liked to dance.

I told my parents about my musical dreams. They let me try my luck.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'

All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I'm just lucky that my day job is simply another form of art.

We got HBO when I was 7. My parents would be in bed, 'Children of the Corn' would be on at midnight, and I'd watch it on mute.

My generation could be the first in Hong Kong to be worse off than our parents.

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

I think a lot of us are a lot more cautious with marriage because of what we saw happening with our parents. I see a lot more healthy marriages in my generation than they probably saw in theirs.

My own parents loved each other very much.

Parents aren't clamoring for cell-phone companies to monitor their kids. Parents don't want to see what their kids are really like, but MySpace makes that really easy.

Back when Myspace was around I couldn't wait to have my own account. My parents told me I could get one as long as I was okay with the fact that with the good comes the bad.

It's not as though I decided to sit down and write a mystery novel so I could capitalize on my parents' success.

My parents are actors as well, so I grew up around that world. It was always a very romantic, mythical world. They did a lot of theater, so to me an actor was getting to come backstage and dressing room mirrors with bulbs around them and trying on people's costumes. It was very exciting to me as a child.

I do think social media can be positive - there are so many parents online sharing their experiences. I talk to other parents and I've made some brilliant friends. But it can also be nasty.

Both of my parents were judo fighters from the national team. So I've always been around fighters my whole childhood.

I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me to the museum of natural history, and I knew much more scientific stuff early on. From the time I was 11 or 12, I wanted to be a mathematician.

I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.