Steven Wright Quotes

Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

My 11-year-old thinks I'm cool because he watches things I've made on YouTube.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

My children haven't even seen most of my movies.

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.

You can go to the Internet and know more than your mom in two seconds. It's crazy how fast teenagers have knowledge and information these days. So, I think it's harder to say, 'Your father and I know more than you.'

Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.

My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago.

There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.

I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

There were times my mom and I butted heads - over my curfew, over something like that. Whenever we would hit these moments of emotional backfire, she would say, 'You just don't understand what it's like to be a mother... I could never handle losing you.' I was like, 'OK, but just, like, chill out.'

My parents don't really understand my career. They don't really bring it up that much.

I think that at a certain point in our lives we should have to interview our parents.

There is a psychic gulf that exists between myself and my grandparents because they don't really speak English, and I don't speak Chinese, and that's my own personal shame because I did not learn, ever. I only saw my paternal grandma a few times in my life, and that's really crazy.

I wish I had more movies I could watch with my parents and not feel super uncomfortable.

My mom was a house mom when we were growing up, and that's all I knew about her. I had a really big disconnect with her because she only spoke Chinese. Her English isn't good at all. Being a typical second-generation, you have the basic stuff, but I never had a deep conversation with her.

What we need to do is open our eyes, smell the coffee and just understand what the society has become. Today, I can discuss many things with my 15-year-old son which I could not talk about with my father.

My daughters prefer Tears for Fears songs as they're more upbeat and generic. Dad's songs are 'a little too sad' for them, which just means that they're harder to understand.

I love being a friend to my son. We go to the mall together. We shop. He picks out my clothes. We hang out. We go to different cities together. We like the same music. I think that's why he appreciates his mom and me so much - we treat him like a friend.

Sometimes I act younger than my daughters. But that's when they say, 'Mama, stop it!'

Classically, it's the child who looks up at their parents who says, 'This is how the future is going to be,' and it's the parents who don't understand because they're set in their ways. For me, it was the exact opposite.

I lived in the house with my mother so she had no choice but to hear what I was doing. I would ask her for her opinion. I used to like doing that because I would let my friends hear what I did, but they listened to it on another level. My mom listened to it with a different ear, because she's older.