Ram Charan Quotes

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

There were times my mom and I butted heads - over my curfew, over something like that. Whenever we would hit these moments of emotional backfire, she would say, 'You just don't understand what it's like to be a mother... I could never handle losing you.' I was like, 'OK, but just, like, chill out.'

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

I just wish I could understand my father.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

Being a family in general is a comedy of errors.

People ask me, do I ever disagree with my father? It would be a little strange if I didn't.

Every family argues and goes through things.

In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children.

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.

My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years. We have become more close. I think having kids makes you want to keep the gang together.

In 'Hardflip,' you have a relationship where the father and son haven't seen each other in 18 years, but they find they're very alike: pigheaded, stubborn, passionate. It's a wonderful story of how you can't get away from how similar you and your children are.

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

My daughter has impressions that she does of me.

Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.