Luanne Rice Quotes

Elderly parents tend to think their relationship with their middle-aged children is smoother than the children do. Adult grandchildren, who have little stake in pulling away from their grandparents, tend to describe that relationship as less rose-colored than do Gram and Gramps.

My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.

I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life.

My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to take me to Woodstock - it was pouring rain. It was on my birthday, and I was crying so much in the car they turned the car around and dumped me at my grandmother's house... I had a little attitude.

I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.

There's so much emphasis on the economic might of China, of Southeast Asia, Asian 'Super Tigers' and things like that. But nobody was really looking from the perspective of a family story, of these individuals.

I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.

I think I am a product of my mother's sensibilities and my mother's values. There has been lots of battling and lots of love and it's never an easy road for us. But in the deepest recesses, I do have my mother's values.

If anything, 'Friday Night Dinner' is quite mean. All these pranks that we play on each other, there's a lot of hitting and slapping and jumping at each other trying to scare each other. But underneath it all it is a family, so we all love each other.

My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

I didn't want to play the wife of some guy my dad's age.

When my mother read 'The Joy Luck Club', she was always complaining to me how she had to tell her friends that, no, she was not the mother or any of the mothers in the book.

I didn't want to work with my father. I wanted to see if I could develop my own career.

My wife and daughter both bust me on how much I am the guy yelling at kids to get off my lawn.

My wife and I definitely do not want to be like the maamiyars and maamanars in teleserials.

Whatever your age, parents generally embarrass their children. I think that's a role we have to play.