Lana Condor Quotes

When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only way that I'd be able to express myself was to write her. We would write letters back and forth for days. When I'm writing, I feel uninterrupted. I write what I'm going through and how I see it.

When I have a lot of emotion going on, I'll write. I write letters to my family, my boyfriend, anyone I'm trying to get my point across to. It's easier for me to express myself.

If you have a large family like ours, you have to fight to get your point across, and I think I learned that from my dad.

Family things are always tough, and they're always tough to address, let alone on a TV show.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.

Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.

I don't mind if the couple next to me is tense or the kids are whiny. I'd even be happy to hear an honest argument, evidence of thinking. I'd like to know these teeth-perfect families don't just buy each other stuff but just occasionally can talk to one another.

A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.

If you don't like your sister or don't get along with your father, let's find out if you like yourself. Let's not sugarcoat anything about it.

To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.

My dad's not a big talker.

It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.

The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.

In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.

This is one of the benefits, as well as one of the difficulties of directing a member of your family. You know where the buttons are. You can push them if you want.

All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.

Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.

Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.

If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.

Your relationship with your sister-in-law is hingeing on your brother's - or your sister-in-law's - ability to keep that relationship together.

I still believe that a fight between two brothers should not destroy peace and harmony and bring trouble to the common man.

In every family, people fight, don't talk and then make amends.