Dominic Holland Quotes

I have been very, very blessed with not having stage parents.

I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.

Nobody is going to be more disinterested in your work than your own kid.

It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.

My kids still think that, you know, other kids' parents are cooler than I am.

Some parents want to be popular, but that's not their job.

So many people have said to me that when you become a school parent, it is like going back to school yourself. Some of those insecurities come out and are projected through your child.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

People think I must have pushy parents, but that's not the case.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.