Family Boundaries Quotes

With immigrant parents, they've had to sacrifice so much to survive, and they're trying to preserve the culture they lost, so there are just so many boundaries.

Family matters should be that and stay in the family.

I never speak for my husband, and I never speak for my children. It's a rule. Believe me, it is.

He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly side of things. After Tyson the Cyclops adopted him as a brother, Percy decided that that was about as far as he wanted to extend the family.

Why don't you say "What?" if you like to sleep with your own sister.

I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy.

He's not my step brother technically, so I think it's okay that I kissed him once.

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.

My mom [comes] to see my shows because she's so proud, but I'm talking about losing my virginity, my ex-wife and our sexual problems, and she's sitting in the front row smiling. I just go, "Mom, you can't sit in the front row, you can't smile. You have to go way in the back and dress in black. If I see you it's like you're breaking in when I'm having sex with my wife. It's just wrong."

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

I've read about myself and my husband and my family, to the point where they've called my parents, they've called my brothers, offering money to tell stories. They call friends of mine. I'd just like for them to just ... don't badger us. Don't scrutinize us. We have children and they have to live, too. It's not fair.

My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I want them to be free to discover it in their own good time. I think reading an intimate memoir by your father - or an intimate autobiographical work, whatever we want to call this thing - you have to come at it at the right moment, so I'm certainly not foisting it upon them.

Welsh women aren't the most tactile unless they're your relatives. And then you don't want them to be.

Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.

I'm not thinking about forcing my kids to watch my movies. It's always awkward when someone says: "Hey, I wrote a song, can I play it for you?" That would be the dynamic, if I was like: "Hey, you're my son, watch my work!" I don't want to put them in that awkward position. Just because when they get older, that's when I'm worried, that they'll judge me and say: "Yeah, my father's ******* Jack Black. He was in that cheesy movie." So, I'm going to keep it all high quality. It'll be a quality controller.

The one thing I believe is that families are off-limits. And I think my husband said it, and he was clear on that. And I totally agree with him.

The kids don't really have any part of my television life. Fortunately, there aren't many times when show business intrudes on our family existence.

What do you say to your sister who poses in the nude? It's not like you are really itching to see photographs of your sister naked. I mean, it's just something that is not too exciting.

I don't let a lot of reporters meet my children.

It's only a certain amount of days your friend's mom is gonna let you stay at they crib without feeling some type of way. So I'd stay two or three days, then they mom would be like, 'What's up with him? He got to leave unless he gonna pay for something.'

I have a family who are desperately not interested in sharing their life with the world.

People will always want intimacy with one chosen person and you cannot have intimacy without privacy, which is why couples draw circles of privacy around themselves. They demand that family, neighbors and the law respect their union, and that is why we have marriage.

I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.