Susanne Bier Quotes

My kids are no different than anyone else's - they tend to disagree with everything I say!

Parents should keep 'Eyes Wide Open' next to the 'Kinsey Report' on their shelves.

If you go on stage with an agenda, you have to accept not everyone's going to agree with it.

Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.

If you are explaining, you are losing.

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

He was amenable to argument, but it took a hell of a lot of argument

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses

I can't force people to agree with me.

I don't delude myself into thinking I'll bring anyone around to my way of thinking, especially Sean Hannity.

As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn't. Can't see why.

I grew up in a uniform at school, and I sort of wish that I still had one and made to dress certain ways. My mother used to pick my clothes, I had hand-me-downs and things from her.

My boys are wild. My daughter is wild.

I always wear the kind of stuff that makes you overheat and die.

My boy always wants to play football, but I have to hide the balls. I lock them in a bedroom; otherwise, he will just kick them all night!

Some people you struggle to argue with - they've got a lot of strong backing to what they say and what they do.

People forget how the same children brought up with affection, effort, and love are the ones who later kick their parents.

You chastise children when they are bad, as my parents did me. I'm not opposed to smacking. It is to be used occasionally.

For my first job interview out of college, I wore a cream-colored cotton suit with cap sleeves and an inverted box pleat skirt that was appropriate for the late-August heat - and wildly discordant with the Red Hook offices of the graffiti magazine I had called twice to find.

I totally believe parents should talk to their kids about drugs. I totally believe that educating them in every way is really important. But on the other hand, I've learned it's not as simple as that.

I constantly ask why one of my kids has the tantrums that he does, and it's not because he sees videos of me acting like that onstage but because we're bound by blood.

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?