Manuel Moroun Quotes

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

I mean, families are weird.

'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

I just wish I could understand my father.

There's actually 14 in our family, but we disowned the others.

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.

I care about family issues.

I'm always drawn toward family drama, and dysfunctional family stories. It speaks to me, in a really profound way, and I think there's so much to explore within it.

Everyone has bits of dysfunction in their families, but I actually have a very nice, happy one.

Because we had no other relatives living in the U.K., me, my parents and my siblings continuously journeyed abroad to bond with our extended family.

When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?'

I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters.

Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.

I've often accused my grandchildren of never having seen one of my films.

I'm an only child, so I don't even have nieces or nephews.

One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.

It's great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won't; it's up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.

If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada.

I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.