Liv Tyler Quotes

My parents are Andre Previn and Mia, but obviously, they're not even my real parents.

Cept for Ben, who I can’t describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I won’t, just to say that I never knew my pa, but if you woke up one day and had a choice of picking one from a selecshun, if someone said, here, then, boy, pick who you want, then Ben wouldn’t be the worst choice you could make that morning.

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

I see my parents a lot more often, but what I liked about the challenge of my part was I got to have those little kid feelings of being the daughter, and then switching and being a Mom.

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

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

The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.

The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

My mother listened to everything I said, carefully - not that what I said was particularly interesting, but I was her daughter.

I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.

My husband has a cousin who discovered, in his fifties, that the man he thought was his father was actually not, and that he had not only a father he had never met, but brothers.

I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.

I'm an amazing mama's boy.

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

Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.

There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.

I always loved movies, especially watching some of my mom's films when I was younger, like 'Out of Darkness,' where she played a schizophrenic.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

The only people on this planet that can make me feel like my feelings are hurt are my kids.

My kids don't call me 'Mom' because I don't want them to. They're Michael's children. It's not that they are not my children, but I had them because I wanted him to be a father.

I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.

Like with me, I just see my mum and dad as parents - I don't see my dad individually as a man, my mum individually as a woman.

Jim Swan was my father, but Reg Barnes was my dad.

Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.

Maybe family is an eternal subject for me.