Hallie Ephron Quotes

When you have a big family, certainly with strong personalities, you feel like you have to fall into a role, and I didn't want to be the little sister or the daughter, because that's who you become as an adult.

The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.

I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

You either become like your parents or you become the opposite of your parents. And I like to think that I'm the opposite of my parents.

I had grown up with four sisters.

The problem is my kids are liberal, maybe too liberal, and I have no one to blame but myself because I introduced them to Uncle O.J.

I am the oldest of three girls and the only one not named after one of my father's ex-girlfriends.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

If you've got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you're going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you are.

No matter what I do, unless I break his records, I'm still going to be Sterling's little brother.

I wanted to write about extended family systems. You have people you can fall back on, and it's good. But what if you don't fit into what is expected of you?

I've definitely met some people that cultivated a masculinity that they taught themselves. I don't know how they figured out how to do it, but I couldn't.

When you get a little bit older, you're always trying to do something different from your siblings.

Well let me just say, for a man, a lot of how your approach and you're dealing with women comes from your mom.

We grow up, and we need to confront a society to be fit in.

I grew up never thinking about acting as a profession because that was what my mum did, and often, you don't want to be like your parents.

I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, the youngest of five. There's something about being the youngest and wanting to be seen. You're like, 'I want attention, notice me.'

I am not really trying to act like my dad.

I grew up pretty fast because I had a lot of older brothers and sisters.

My mother wanted my sister and me to live a normal life. I always picked friends who weren't impressed with my family ties.

I'm the youngest of six. When you're in a big family, you get put to the test right away. Do I like being the center of attention? Or do I not like it? You have to make that decision a lot growing up. I knew from a very young age that I liked it.

I grew up in Georgia, and my mom would tell me how to perform and act. So I learned to repress a lot of myself so that other people would feel comfortable.

As you get older, I have seen it a lot... fighting among siblings. The reason is usually money or spouses. But my kids don't fall into that trap.