Julius Peppers Quotes

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

My relationship with my mom is really bad.

Nothing's as easy as it is on a sitcom. Issues that we take care of in 20 minutes on the show can stretch out over years in real families.

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

My relationship with my mother is not cute.

There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.

It is hard to tell your mother to change her life.

'The Fighter' was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, and I went back and rewrote this script which I had written for my son initially because my son has mood disorder.

I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

My brother, he just thought I was crazy.

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be.

It's great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won't; it's up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.

The seeds of divorce are often sown and the problems of children begin when Mother works outside the home.

I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.

We all have our family issues from time to time.

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.

I just wish I could understand my father.

A lot of times, you try and please your biological family, and you can't please them.

Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.

My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.