Leeza Gibbons Quotes

I've had people ask me if it would have been easier to take care of your parents if you had siblings, and I think it's 50/50. I know people who have siblings, and there is a lot of acrimony because somebody always feels that they are doing more than the other person.

I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.

I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody is constantly fighting with everybody and you are in the middle of the storm trying to make peace. That is your life. Making everybody work and play well together.

My mother did not want cancer to interfere with my life, as she knew it would eventually end hers.

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

You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.

Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?

I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's and dad's houses for years. But, you know, my parents tried to do the right thing. As crazy as everything was, and as much fighting and everything, there was always a feeling of support from them.

'The Fighter' was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, and I went back and rewrote this script which I had written for my son initially because my son has mood disorder.

When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.

I'm part of the tribe who have said goodbye to one parent and are feeling a sense of responsibility for the one who remains - in my case, my mother. How do I make her time smoother, happier? How do I try to ease her, a widow, away from the dark well of grief without dishonoring the necessity of that grief?

It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.

My daughter lived with my wife being ill since she was 2.

For us, it is alright if the talks succeed, and it is alright if they fail.

I'm a middle child, so I have middle-child syndrome. With a middle child, you always have to take in everything and adjust and maybe compromise a little bit so you're able to see both sides of an issue. I'm also a Leo - I love astrology - so that affected me, just being a lion.

I've had this conversation with friends who have had challenging relationships with one or another parent. The only thing I can say is what I feel: The other person isn't going to change. That is who they are.

I know this sounds ridiculous, but I'm not much of a fighter.

I think that the idea of wanting to fight for your kids, but also knowing that your wife is probably better at it, is something that rings very true for me.

Naturally, Brie and I bicker, like, every 10 minutes about everything in life.

Every day, I get into fights with my brother, who is the most annoying person on the planet.

The issue you have with two competitive guys being brought up the same way is that you don't have one person who goes out of his way to make a relationship.

Me and my brothers all have different personalities and we definitely clash over living together in a small space.

That's something that I struggled with - talking to my mother about some of the problems that I had.