Nastassja Kinski Quotes

I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at the office the entire time.

Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.

It will be good fun finding out what sport baby's good at; perhaps it will be something obscure. My parents were fantastic at taking me to training sessions and letting me try lots of different sports, so I want to do the same.

My kids haven't watched one episode of 'Growing Pains'. I'll tell you why. When our kids were little, we never wanted Mommy or Daddy to be the celebrity mom or dad to our kids.

There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.

I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives.

I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.

If you're not yelling at your kids, then you're not spending enough time with them!

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.

My parents brought us up in a very clever way, which was that they saw what we were interested in naturally, and then they encouraged whatever that may be. When I started sharing a keen interest in drama and the theater, instead of steering me away from it, they encouraged me to see plays and think about drama school.

He just had a very unique way of expressing himself physically with his kids.

My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American television was reprehensible, so I was raised on the BBC. I kind of agreed with her. We watched American news, though.

We don’t want a village to raise a child. We want a family.

My parents just had faith in me, and thank God they did. They weren't stage parents in the slightest.

I am a father who never pushes or forces his children into anything.

I was never plunked in front of an idiot box because my parents had other things to do.

My mum, who comes from Goa, wanted us to develop our minds when we were kids, so she used to turn the electricity off at weekends so we couldn't sit watching the telly.

My grandmother and my mother raised me, but my dad made a conscious effort to be in my life - every weekend he would take me out.

I was allowed to do whatever made me happy. I can't think of a better or more worthwhile approach to parenting.

I watched a ton of TV because I was raised by a single mom and spent a lot of time with my grandmother. Like most grandparents do, she would spend hours and hours in front of the TV box.

I think the parenting of Tina and myself combined allowed our kids to really find their passion at an early age.

But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.

As a father, my job is to protect, and keep things away from interfering with her imagination because that's her voice.