Steve Carell Quotes

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

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.

Obviously, you want to teach your child between right and wrong, respect and being kind to others, whether it's their sisters or parents. You try to teach them by example, talk to them and explain certain situations. But there's also a time to put them in time out or let them know they've made a mistake and try to learn from it.

I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

If you have a child, you're improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies.

When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that.

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

Parenting is one of the best management training programs there is.

Parenting makes us better in so many regards.

I think there's different parenting styles.

As I started parenting, I realised there is no formula to it.

As producers, you always have to go with the flow and be ready to embrace change, and drama and whatever happens.

It's fascinating working with young children. You have to improvise around them, and they're moving around and doing stuff, and you have to be real with them.

There's never been a blueprint, I just keep exploring doors as they open. But whenever people would ask me what's my favorite thing to do, it was sitting in for Larry King.

Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.

I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.

I don't seem to have ever had a plan, but I have always been quite good at walking through doors when they are opened. I am never any good at anticipating what will happen next, but I always go for it when it does.

I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.

I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.