Miranda Otto Quotes

I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends.

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

I'm not saying that every night of the week, my husband, ex-husband, our children and I all sit around together like one big happy family. But we do see each other frequently, and everyone loves each other, and we are all friends.

I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.

Even when people don't stay married, they can still be a family together. That's been something that's been really good for developing me as a person. It's been a very positive learning experience.

All I care about are my children and that they are brought up properly and that they don't try to play their dad and mom against each other because they know we don't get along.

I had to learn to respect the relationship my son had with his father outside of the three of us.

Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.

We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years. We have become more close. I think having kids makes you want to keep the gang together.

Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

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

My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13.

My mother never married my father. She was married to and divorced from another man, then she married and divorced my stepfather and then, ultimately, they ended up getting back together.

My mom and dad got divorced, so it was one of those things where Sundays I'd go to Dad's apartment, and this was, say, 1970-whatever, and it had a pool table on the top floor in a very traditional kind of divorced-dad apartment building.

I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.

From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.

When your parents divorce, it makes you grow up fast. I'd urge parents to strongly consider working things out. I'd work things out and I'd definitely stay put.

My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.

I was brought up with two sisters, so I do know about a three-way dynamic. It's a complex one, because it's easy for one to get left out and the others to gang up. In my family, we were all pretty up for it, but the dynamics would constantly change.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.