Bridget Fonda Quotes

In real life, my parents pretty much approved of all my boyfriends. I guess I was doing something wrong. I should have been more rebellious.

I have a friend called James who is in his 40s and he's still not allowed to swear in front of his mum. I find it strange that you can't be yourself and be open with the one person who brought you into this world.

Americans who have parents raised during the Great Depression or World War II understand how drastically things have changed on the home front. My father did not care a whit whether I liked him, and it would have been unthinkable for him to pick up my stuff. There were rules in the house, and they were enforced.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, 'Why in the heck did you get married?' Like, what was going on? What was that time? It's like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on, or my family's based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand '55.

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.

I have no problem putting my feet up and watching football but my mother-in-law is always doing stuff.

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.

A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do.

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

History requires us to judge the figures of the past not by our moral standards but by those of the ages in which they lived and worked.

The dynamic of fathers and sons seems to be more around competition regarding things such as knowledge, accomplishments, expertise.

I have never tried to bear a judgment against my own father because I consider that, in our European culture, one does not judge his parents. Now, I have expressed my disagreements with my father on certain points, disagreements related to the way one should express things, something that has also to do with a difference of generations.

I was raised in a very Middle Eastern household, and modesty was very important, and dressing to not be desirable or provocative was very important.

My dad is this typical orthodox, narrow-minded Punjabi man in front of whom you can't even utter the word called 'boyfriend.'

My parents are really open-minded, but with their own daughter, it's not the same thing.

When you grow up, you don't realize that your parents are any different than anybody else's. And their behavior - you have nothing to compare it to. So that is what normal is, even if it's abnormal.

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?

Although my parents both liked her, they just didn't approve of a same-sex relationship. Nowadays, people say that you must let children be what they are, but when I was growing up, the parents defined the child - and my parents had a definite vision of how they wanted me to be.

My parents really wanted me to have an arranged marriage when I was younger, but I think they have updated a bit with the times.