Hema Malini Quotes

I feel a little bit like a drill sergeant sometimes. Some elements of my personality, as a parent, I'm not real crazy about.

I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to be stricter than most. But even though it's like, 'Oh, gosh, I've gotta be in at this time,' they know what they're doing. I have great parents.

Our father always made us work. I think that's the greatest thing a parent could ever do.

If you're not ten minutes early where I'm from, my dad chews you out.

My mom could be pretty strict.

You don't ever want an African father to come to your school looking for you.

It's important for parents to be strict if you want the kids to succeed.

My parents were strict and taught me the proper fundamentals that I would use in my life. They taught me commitment to work hard.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend.

To be a parent, you must be authoritarian. If the Zambians want to succeed, they must learn to work hard, and they should not expect to be treated with kid gloves.

My parents were truly severe.

My kids have got to work themselves around my life, not the other way. That's how kids become brats, if you're there staring at them all the time going, 'Are you alright?'

My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.

I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad.'

My parents had job jars because my father would say, 'Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You're going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.'

My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.

Tough love is exactly what it sounds like.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn't have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

I always found it strange, when I went round to other people's houses for tea and that, how strict their parents were.

My father was very strict.

There's nobody tougher on the players than me. Nobody.

I don't crush the kids. But I do want them to know that they have to earn what they get. I'm not like Jimmy Piersall's dad or anything. I mean, I tell them I'm happy if they just do the best they can. My parents were that way with me.

I'm as strict as my parents - I have high expectations, too. I'd never ask the kids to do something outside their capabilities, but I'll encourage them not to be lazy and to try hard.