Gena Showalter Quotes

I got really bad grades, so I'd hide my report card from my dad. My mom was in on it, too, because she knew he'd be furious. I probably would've gone to boot camp. Seriously.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

When I was 16, I was watching '101 Dalmatians,' and my mom never let me bleach my hair, so I told her I was going to dye my hair like Cruella De Vil; she didn't believe me. I came home with my hair like this, and she didn't talk to me for, like, a week. It was really hilarious.

The first time my mom found condoms in my room, she literally started crying hysterically.

Fights with my father were really quite brutal. I would not live his vision. I would not become who he wanted me to be. Everything I did was criticized. I would spend three months drawing something and show him, and he would look up from his paper and just look back down. I got no approval from him for anything I did that was creative.

My father was absolutely no good.

I quit college and neglected to tell my dad.

I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay.

My mom and I have always had issues.

When parents have invested enormous amounts of money in their kids' education, to find their kids coming back to live with them - well, that was not what they bargained for.

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

I have this rather amazing report which, roughly speaking, says I was the worst student the biology master had ever taught.

As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good.

Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.

Sometimes my mum is very disapproving of my comedy.

I was really rubbish at school.

It seemed like my father and I were always fighting. I know a lot of kids go through that with their families, but it was hard for me.

I got the dragon on my leg when I was still living with my dad. He's not a fan of tattoos, so I had to get it behind his back; he kind of freaked out when he saw it.

My dad was fine, but I have to say my mum was upset when I said I was leaving home.

I think my father couldn't wait to get home to his wife, but I don't know if he was so keen on us children.

I got into a lot of trouble. Maybe that's why my parents didn't really like me and I didn't blend in with my family. I was always the naughty one.

I was good in biology, but I did very badly in chemistry, and my parents were horrified by that.

I was a class clown, never got good grades.

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh.