Lisa Joy Quotes

I only know what I read in the papers.

When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.

I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening.

I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them.

I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.

Marriage was never a dream or an ambition for me. I thank my real mother for the fact that - unlike my sitcom mother - she never put any pressure on me or my sister to marry.

My children haven't even seen most of my movies.

My parents separated it, and that let me know that TV life wasn't my normal life; that was my job and my hobby.

I don't make a habit of watching my parents' films, because it is a little strange. But I will say that I binge watch 'House of Cards' compulsively, and I think it's the first time I've ever seen one of my mom's projects and totally forgot she was my mom!

By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.

My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.

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.

I always have CNN on. That's where I get my ideas.

I don't read the papers; I don't listen to radio.

People always ask about my dad and his comedic influence. It's funny because my mom is really the comedian of our household.

Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.

I don't really read the papers.

The directness of my mother is clearly in my voice. Her opinion is always a very strong opinion at the dining room table. I think she empowered me to have the same drive.

I lived in the house with my mother so she had no choice but to hear what I was doing. I would ask her for her opinion. I used to like doing that because I would let my friends hear what I did, but they listened to it on another level. My mom listened to it with a different ear, because she's older.

Twitter is my main tool for ensuring news balance.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

I don't like news channels so I have six websites that I check and I get the daily update.

I hate to be a broken record - my parents have a lot to do with that too, because that's how they live their lives.

Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.