Henry Cavill Quotes

Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

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.

I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television;' it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

As with most people, my ideology and my attitudes about life were informed by parents and family.

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

It's impossible for me to disentangle how much of my storytelling urge is the product of growing up with novelist parents and how much is a genetic legacy from those same parents.

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.

My values stemmed from the family. Anything I have achieved in life has been rooted in my upbringing.

On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

I believe we are more a product of our homes than of any other single influence.

I'm a product of this visionary mother and father.

If you grow up and your mother or father is a doctor you talk about medicine at the dinner table. In our case we talked about politics at the dinner table.

When people ask what it's like to be an only child, I say it depends on who your parents are. I was lucky.

Fatherhood is something that is personal to me because I didn't grow up around my father.

A lot of things come down to your roots and how you're brought up.

I think some people who have never met me have a misconception that when I was living with my father when he was successful, that I was somehow adversely affected by his success or the money he had and was making at the time.

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.

Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

Between the two [parents], it was a really unique upbringing, I think, especially for where I was from.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.