Billy Howle Quotes

My brother and I had a lot of freedom growing up, and thankfully, we both turned out OK.

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.

My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.

As a kid, you're so at the mercy of the people around you, the people raising you, your environment.

As a child, you are influenced by your parents' actions.

I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.

I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless.

I've always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me like a person rather than a baby, and I was around so many actors and directors from such a young age because my dad is an actor. I was more comfortable with adults rather than actually being an adult child.

Growing up, there wasn't much emphasis on being nice or naughty. As a family, there wasn't much discipline. It was more relaxed at home, which I'm grateful for.

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

Men are what their mothers made them.

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.

No, I never - no one ever - I never learned anything when I was a kid. Honestly, my parents had nothing to tell me - like, no wisdom, nothing.

I had one of those families that let me watch things they should not have let me watch. When I was a kid, I remember I watched 'Alien' at, like, 6. It was traumatizing.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

My parents did not have any interest in music.

My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He's great. As he brought up me and my brothers and sisters, he ingrained in us that your appearance is not your responsibility, other than that you should not be a slob.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.