Judd Apatow Quotes

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

I went back to a small town in Poland where my dad grew up. It was a very traumatic experience for me as a young man to know that my father's family were killed by Nazis, killed by Hitler. And that left, you know, if not intellectually, at least an emotional part of me which said, God, we have got to do everything we can to end this kind of horrific racism or anti-Semitism. And I have spent much of my life trying to fight that.

Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.

Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.

I think every person's parents teach them a lot and also mess them up royally.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.

Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

Nazi Germany was so destructive to Judaism not only for the loss of life, but because many who survived began to see the practice of Judaism as somewhat of a health hazard.

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives

I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was.

The Santa myth is one of the most effective means ever devised for intimidating children, eroding their self- esteem, twisting their behavior, warping their values, and slowing their development of critical thinking skills.

Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps.

And what about you-the rest of you-did you notice the scars you left behind? No. Probably not. Because most of them can't be seen with the naked eye.

You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.

Just take Germany and the suffering of Jews during and after the Second World War. It would be legal to ridicule and to laugh at this suffering, but since it was such a trauma on the European conscience, no one is going to do it. It is an open scar, an open wound, an open reality.

Perhaps one feels more pain when parents are there. It's like when you're hungry, you know, it's worse to get a symbol of a cheeseburger than no cheeseburger at all. It doesn't do you any good, you know.

There are things that can harm a lot more than physically.

The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind.

I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless.

I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.

It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real.