Idina Menzel Quotes

I'm very close to my sisters.

Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.

My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.

I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.

I take advice from both my sisters all the time. We try to help each other as much as we can without getting in the catty sister fight.

When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.

My sisters, we didn't like each other as kids. We were scared of each other, I think, but we've grown to love each other. It was fun to write about these sisters who were supposed to hate each other but really don't.

I think people love shows that are relationship-oriented. I think they love family shows.

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.

Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

This is one of the benefits, as well as one of the difficulties of directing a member of your family. You know where the buttons are. You can push them if you want.

That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.

I don't speak to my brother every week - doesn't mean I don't love him.

I was brought up with two sisters, so I do know about a three-way dynamic. It's a complex one, because it's easy for one to get left out and the others to gang up. In my family, we were all pretty up for it, but the dynamics would constantly change.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.

In some ways, siblings, and especially sisters, are more influential in your childhood than your parents.

I prefer films and dramas based on families and relationships - films which focus on love and harmony.

My relationship with my sister is closer than white on rice.

The family unit is very interesting because these are people that you're supposed to be the closest to in your life, and yet that's where you find the greatest distances between people as well - especially between parents and kids.

Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.

What surprised me was that within a family, the voices of sisters as they're talking are virtually always the same.

Sisters are made by living everyday with each other and wearing each other down until the rough spots are smooth. They're made by sharing secrets you'd never tell mom, and out of doing things for each other just because you feel like it, not because you have to. I guess you could say sisters are 'grown,' not manufactured, in a very special place called a family.