Ben Mendelsohn Quotes

Writing about your family is the hardest thing, unless you had the perfect happy family life, which very few of us have had.

I mean, families are weird.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

Everyone has bits of dysfunction in their families, but I actually have a very nice, happy one.

To me, families are puzzles that take a lifetime to work out - or not, as often is the case - and I like to explore how people within them try to connect, be it through love, duty, or circumstance.

I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have.

I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.

Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.

I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

'Queen Sugar' is a drama about family. It's something that allows us to be ourselves and see the ways that we interact with our own families.

The best TV is always about family, whether it's 'All in the Family,' or 'The Sopranos' or 'The Flintstones.'

It's no secret that I have, at best, a strained and awkward relationship with my dad. The Wasserman family - my mom, my sister, Lew and Edie - raised me. They are the people I define as my family.

Most families are dysfunctional.

I have always liked family-type dramas; I just think the dynamics in families make for some really interesting characters.

I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters.

I have a great family myself so I know if you don't have a family you've got nothing. Nothing else can take the place of the family - not girlfriends or a career.

I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family.

In a way, our family is our modern identity.

I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.

I definitely have family on the brain.

Every family is dysfunctional.

You know, you only get one family, and you have to make it work.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.