Anna Chancellor Quotes

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.

Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

I believe that communication is the key to a happy and successful family in our society.

My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.

Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.

A relationship is work, and it changes. And you go with the changes. It's more good times than bad times, but it's not always good. You have to overcome those issues and move on.

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.

I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.

Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.

Forcing people together is an enjoyable conflict to watch, but I think it's even more enjoyable if they love each other.

I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other... get things done as a family.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me.

America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.

That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

I want my ex-wife and children to be happy.

We all have challenging family relationships, and trying to balance that between our dreams and what we feel compelled to do is, I think, a challenge that's easily relatable.

I don't think there's necessarily anything that's rock solid about any marriage. It's all about that balance, especially when you have kids.

Many mothers and daughters are as close as any two people can be, but closeness always carries with it the need - indeed, the desire - to consider how your actions will affect the other person, and this can make you feel that you are no longer in control of your own life.