Nahnatchka Khan Quotes

I don't tend to watch too many American comedies. I love British comedy.

In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.

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

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

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

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.

Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and says 'Mama' is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and uncool.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Parents do the best they can. But my parents are better grandparents than they were parents.

When I do watch things, they tend to be a lot of comedies. I actually like some of the British comedy series. But, on the whole, I'm not a huge viewer of anything.

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

Love your parents, but don't have them as your mates.

The swashbuckling independence of my childhood was not all good, and as a father, I'm puzzling out how to be part of my children's lives rather than shoehorning them into mine. But there's a risk that I'll overcompensate, of course.

I knew I was outspoken when I was a kid because, whenever my parents had company coming over, they would pay me to leave. 'Go see your grandmother. Get out of here.' That was my first paying gig.

I'm way more influenced by my children than I was by my parents.

I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.

My father was an amazing man. No person is perfect, and no father-son relationship is perfect. He wanted me to live my life my way and never think about what he would have done or what he would have wanted to do.

The Macorinos and me - there's a big space between our generations. The people I was used to work with, we will do everything faster. And the Macorinos were more, like, calm. They were patient with music, and they were paying a lot of attention to the details.

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

Mum and Dad have both got very well-tuned senses of humour.

I can't make the new generation like me, because they didn't grow up on me. So I stick to what I know.