Family Insight Quotes

You live and you learn. My son has given me so much clarity.

The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children.

Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis.

I think actors always like to think they don't bring the character home, and then their family all laugh and tell you otherwise.

You ask my wife or my two sons, and they'll tell you that I ain't free with the money.

Don't think I'm always nice. I know that's how I've been cast... If they want me to be mean, I can step up to the plate more easily than I would like to admit, as my children will tell you.

It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.

A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

I knew that there was a great deal of depth and life that was sitting just beyond my mother's gaze.

People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.

Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.

My father had an invisible job outside of the house; I didn't know what he did. But my kids were privy to the ups and downs of a writer's life.

I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.

I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

It's only because I've lived with brothers that I realize, after a moment, that he's not looking outside but rather inside, wrestling with something inside himself. And there's nothing for it but to wait.