Karen Robards Quotes

I was always falling in and out of love. I was engaged when I was 16 to the first guy I ever dated, but my father told him I was too young.

Every father loves their children. I love my two sons very dearly. The only thing that is important to me is that they do what they want to do. They shouldn't feel a sense of obligation.

I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.

I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

Parents do bear some of the responsibility if they don't talk to their kids, are never around, even deny their kids the love that young girls often crave when they decide to have a baby.

My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out.

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.

Growing up, there wasn't much emphasis on being nice or naughty. As a family, there wasn't much discipline. It was more relaxed at home, which I'm grateful for.

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.

And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.

I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.

I thought my character definitely was very much in love with him and wanted to be with him, but I think at some point they were going to have to draw the line.

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.

A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

My parents made us do everything, try everything.

I'm very traditional, believe it or not. My daughters are not allowed to date until they're at least 16 and I'm going to make it 18 for the next one.

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad.

What I am most grateful for is that neither of my fathers pushed the relationship; they just let things develop and didn't impose anything on me. They were both just there, emanating stability in a very unstable situation.

I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.