Robert Mapplethorpe Quotes

My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that.

It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

I wanted to be a good kid, and I wanted to please my parents.

I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times.

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

I knew your father before you did, and I don't think he'd be too proud of what you're doing right now.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

I think Dad didn't really treat us like children; he treated us more like little adults. We were good kids.

I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother and what she would think about what I just did. I often adjust my approach.

I'm obsessed with my parents.

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

My parents have always told me to work hard. My father was a friend, a very good friend, but when he needed to be a father, he was.

Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.

I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.

I don't let other people tell me what to do. Well, unless it's my mum.

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

You don't want to disappoint your mama, for that main fact that she's going to get on your behind.