Dominic Holland Quotes

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.

My parents don't press it but, you know, they're into good grades.

My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person.

I wasn't a great student. My brother is 18 months older than me, so he sort of forged the way for me at school.

I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to Oxford; I'd think: 'Where is the justice?' I took A-levels in English, history and theatre studies and got three Bs.

I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.

I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.

My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal.

I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it wasn't until I was in third or fourth grade that I really settled down at school and I was much happier at home with my mum and she was very creative and sort of fostered all my interests.

My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all kinds.

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.

What the Chinese parent is conveying to the child is not that 'you've got to get A's or else I won't like you.' On the contrary, it's, 'I believe in you so much, I know that you can be excellent.'

I always have to bring back an all-A report card.

Speaking from experience, because I have three daughters, I think it's always important to give your daughter the confidence that she needs so that she won't look elsewhere for approval and feeling love and acceptance.

The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I've showed them a certain respect for this career.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

I've been blessed to have insanely hip parents who think of me as their little Chris Rock.

If I came home with a grade of A, my father would say, 'There must have been a lot of dummies in that class.'

When I was born, that was right smack in the middle of 'The Cosby Show.' But what I remember is my mother took me with her... She exposed me to the world in such a way where I was included. And I didn't feel like she chose her career over me.

My father told me I couldn't possibly be a model because I was too short. He's very protective. I did it partly to prove him wrong.

My parents were fantastic. I was an only child, so I had a lot of love and too much attention. I don't think I was spoilt. My mother was quite a disciplinarian, but I did have a lot of attention and quite a lot of pressure to do well at whatever I was doing.

I read a lot on self-esteem issues, and a mother has more impact on the self-esteem of her daughter than peer pressure or media or television.

I always knew I wanted an educational background, and my mum and dad were quite big on that.

I got lucky with my parents. They were unfailingly loving and supportive, which gave me confidence about my place in the world.