Jeff Kinney Quotes

Let me tell you something. I'm a funny girl, and I gave birth to what? Funny. I can't help it. It just is what it is, and my kids have been around my antics so long, it kind of rubs off a little bit. So when it comes to what you see, you only see what is really manifesting in our lives at the time.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.

My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.

Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

I'm influenced a lot by my family. I have a big family.

I act, but I am a mother first and wife second.

My words must be powerful to make people so afraid of them. It's rather nice to feel I have power.

Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father.

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

I like the idea of raising a kid in my trailer. My mother was an actress. I grew up in theater with her in Brazil. I would play with set dolls. And I loved it.

There are times between five and seven when this house is like a bowling alley, but it's reinspired me. My acting has gotten better because of these kids. I feel the same spirit I did when I was doing Off-Broadway.

My grandfather was raising me, and in many respects, I was trying to understand what it meant to be a man. He was my role model.

I think my dad has a similar black sense of humour to mine, so perhaps it's just an inherited thing. I've got two little boys now, and I can see it with them as well. I don't know if you learn it off your parents - but my dad used to take me to see certain plays when I was quite young, so maybe that had an effect as well.

My father has never influenced the strategy anywhere.

I am not really trying to act like my dad.

My parents were on the road a lot in the 1970s. Winifred Kelly, a nurse from the hospital where I was born, was hired to care for me. Her love and discipline had a big influence on my upbringing.

Being an adult child was an awkward, inevitable position. You went about your business in the world: tooling around, giving orders, being taken seriously, but there were still these two people lurking somewhere who in a split second could reduce you to nothing. In their presence, you were a big-headed baby again, crawling instead of walking.

Whatever role we were in our family of birth, we take on this persona and in your 20s and 30s in particular, you end up thinking that's you and that isn't necessarily you.

In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.

I had always been considered such a nonentity where human relations were concerned that the idea that I might have an influence, even a corrupting influence ... penetrated my heart with a fierce little sting of pleasure.

Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?