Elizabeth Olsen Quotes

I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!

When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.

One time, my mom told us, 'No TV.' It was 3 P.M., and I was sneaking it in. She put her hand on the back of the TV to see if it was warm, and it was. So she pulled the cord out of the wall, opened the second-floor window, and just threw it out the window.

My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

My parents had five children in six years and one week, meaning that my mom was pregnant for most of the '60s and driving carpools for most of the '70s. When we were young, she dressed us alike so she could pick us out in crowds: identical skirts for the four girls with the color-coordinated pants for my brother.

I'm a really fun aunt, so I hope I'm going to be a fun mom! I like to have fun and be silly and not take myself too seriously with the kids, so I hope that will translate when I actually have my own.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

My mom told me I never had enough Tonka toys when I was growing up.

My mom beat us until she started breaking clothes hangers. Wooden clothes hangers! Once we started laughing back at her, then your spankings were through. That's the way I was raised. So, I got to be about 13 years of age when finally she quit spanking on me. But I think that it was great way to be raised.

I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.

I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.

Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.

My parents would say, 'Why don't you go out and play?' and I would say, 'I can't! I'm putting on my shows!'

Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'How did Jonetta get in here?'

I've always told my kids to have fun.

I had so much joy as a boy: middle child, lots of energy, big emotional life. I was a clown and still am.

I hope all the kids out there who don't like listening to their mothers, who yell and scream at them, that moms are always right just so you guys know.

My mom is one of those really angry moms who gets mad at absolutely everything. Once when I was a little kid, I accidentally knocked a Flintstones glass off the kitchen table. She said, 'Well, dammit, we can't have nice things.'

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.

And my daughter said, 'Why are you yelling at us?' and I said, 'I'm trying to discipline you!' And then she looked up at me with her tear-stained eyes and said, 'This is how you teach children, by making them cry.' And it was such a clenching reminder - she won not only the argument, but she won life with that statement. I just burst out laughing, and I think they were so surprised that I burst out laughing, that they did too.

Childhood lasts all through life.

The child who has not been disciplined with love by his little world will be disciplined, generally without love, by the big world.