Michael Jackson Quotes

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

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.

There were times my mom and I butted heads - over my curfew, over something like that. Whenever we would hit these moments of emotional backfire, she would say, 'You just don't understand what it's like to be a mother... I could never handle losing you.' I was like, 'OK, but just, like, chill out.'

The relationship between parents and children who live together is a growing one, and it shifts every day, especially during the teenage years.

Many fathers and sons never get to reconcile their differences or come to an understanding that fills the gap between love and expectations.

I grew up in a family of nine children, and I know there has to be a back and forth and a listening.

This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.

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.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

When it comes to my family I never quite know how protective I have to be, or what I should or shouldn't say.

My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked out a fairly solid middle ground. I wouldn't say my relationship with either of them - they're no longer together - is exactly typical, but that would be difficult after all we went through.

I always felt like there wasn't a blueprint for father-daughter relationships - for them or for us. Because what are they supposed to do with us, treat us like boys, or small women, or what? Father-daughter relationships are so unique from family to family, and I'd love to watch it explored more onstage.

It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it's OK.

In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.

It is hard to tell your mother to change her life.

It's not like he called me up and asked me. They've never wanted to throw us into that world, and I think our decision probably shocked them. But I love my dad, and I think I'd regret it if I didn't do this.

My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.

Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.

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

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.