Sayed Kashua Quotes

A lot of times, you try and please your biological family, and you can't please them.

My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.

When I finally began to publish, my father never read my work. He'd say, 'Oh, that's your mother's sort of thing.' But my mother found the books rather upsetting. I figure she read just enough to know that she didn't want to go there.

Not having a great relationship with my brother Aaron, or what people think that relationship should be, didn't define me.

I think sometimes it's hard, parent's expectations, wanting to be seen by the people in your family and feeling that you can't do that, you can't get them to see you the way that you want to be seen, and come to an understanding or find a way to talk that doesn't revert to bad habits.

My wife always tells people, 'He's not going to be able run to for anything because I'm not going to let him start a campaign.'

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

I don't really say too much to my parents. If they ask me to do something I just do it and get it out of the way.

I always felt like there wasn't a blueprint for father-daughter relationships - for them or for us. Because what are they supposed to do with us, treat us like boys, or small women, or what? Father-daughter relationships are so unique from family to family, and I'd love to watch it explored more onstage.

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

I wanted to be loved by my father. I could do anything to be loved by my father.

My dad treated Marilyn Monroe more like his daughter than me.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

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

My father was my god. His approval was so valuable to me.

My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.

Most of the time my own family feels like I don't need anything, I'm tough as nails and I don't have any feelings about anything. They really think that I'm this super tough person. I have a tough exterior, but I get upset. I have feelings and all those things. I wear my heart on my sleeve.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.

I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.

My parents felt judged by me.