Robert Picardo Quotes

Some people found it difficult to understand my relationship with my father, but that may have been because they couldn't get beyond their relationship with their own parents.

You never find yourself involved in a single action story. Your family is always being with you. And you cannot separate whatever is going on in your life with your relationship with your son, with your wife.

I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'

My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.

I've always been way closer to my mom. I'm close to my dad, but they're totally different kinds of relationships.

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

I am always drawn to father/son stories.

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.

You can love and hate your family with equal measure, but the power of the bond you have to have with them, you can't really ever walk away.

I never argued with my father, and it so happened that, unfortunately, the same kind of relationship passed on with me and Ranbir.

I've got a great husband who's very good with Orla - she's a real daddy's girl.

There's a lot of truth in family relationships.

I would like to understand my father.

I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child.

In my very own self, I am part of my family.

My mom, my father, my little sisters, and my brother - I don't got that much family. I'm not really a family person. I just do my own thing. But I've just been spending time with my mom, especially since the [September motorcycle] accident happened. I drive all the way down there to Georgia just to check up on her. You just get tired of being that person that you thought you were. I don't feel no different. I see the music, because I made it. I don't really see the fame.

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.

It is a family; it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family.

Blood may be thicker than water, but it is still sticky, unpleasant and generally nauseating.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

We all hold on to some image of the family we want, based one way or another on the family we had. Lots of people are thrilled about the families they came from, others couldn't get away fast enough. Most people fall into that vast middle ground: great affection mixed with a few ideas for improvement. A couple of things they wish could have perhaps been done differently.