Robert Lepage Quotes

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

My mother's a police officer, so there was only so much trouble I could get myself into. But my father grew up on the other side.

As I grow older and meet more and more people, I realise how lucky I am to have had a stable family environment. Both my parents had loving families but unstable upbringings, so they wanted us to have a more stable situation.

Men are what their mothers made them.

When you are born into a family like mine, you don't really know anything else. But you quickly realise that it's more about other people and how they are dealing with it. Some can be hugely in awe or uncomfortable, but to you, your parents are just your parents.

I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.

I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brother, David, and an older sister, Betty. My father Fred worked in the mills as a textile weaving supervisor, and my mother, Mary, was a housewife.

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

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.

My parents were not perfect, but no one's parents are. As childhoods go, mine was pretty comfortable and good in a lot of ways, and yet I still ended up with anxiety.

I was an only child, and I spent a lot of time alone. My dad was an only child, too, so we didn't have a big family, and I was really close with both of my parents. Like any kid, I thought I knew more than they did.

Every boy grows up trying to be like his father, but what if a boy grows up to be like his mother?

We grew up in the South, but in a very liberal household - both our parents are from the Northeast.

My parents had an inter-reli'gious marriage. My father is a Gujarati and my mother a Bohri Muslim. I am an only child. My par'ents loved me very much, but were very strict: I was a tomboy, always among boys, playing, fighting.

Like with me, I just see my mum and dad as parents - I don't see my dad individually as a man, my mum individually as a woman.

I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.

My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

I can't think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads.

I was raised by a single dad, so I've always just kind of liked "guys" stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.

My wife and I grew up in the Northeast but my daughters are sort of small-town girls, from the Midwest.

The way I'm raising my kids is so different than the way I was raised.

I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.

We're all a result of our early years and our nature and nurture.

My mother was an art school teacher and my father was an interior designer. So we've been relatively open minded as opposed to my conservative maternal side.

Growing up, I was raised by a single mother.