Deepika Padukone Quotes

I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis.

There were no secrets in my house. I always knew what was going on.

I am an only child, so I relate to the intensity of that single-parent, mother-daughter relationship.

I have a great relationship with my kids.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

Bronagh looks after the kids and without her the family would disintegrate... there are some things you can't discuss with anyone other than your wife. There has to be a strong bond of trust.

We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.

My mother and I always had full adult communication.

I speak with my father about everything in my life.

When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.

A father-son relationship is strong, like no other teammates. You could be straightforward with one another.

I have a very open line of communication with both my children.

Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, 'I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.' We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.

Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

In marriage, there's a lot of ignoring each other, which is hard to fake on-screen.

I've not been in a live-in relationship. But I've been exposed to various kinds of equations that can exist between people. When I came from Bangalore, it was black and white. Over the years, I've realised that there's more to what we see on a day-to-day basis. There are all kinds of relationships, all kinds of equations.

I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can be a real journey to accept what that bond is once you both mature into it. Because it's not always what you want. It's not always what you expect. It's not always what you imagined or hoped. But it's one of the most important things in the world.

You cannot build a partnership on four games.

My mom and I, we have trust within each other because at one time in our lives, we were kind of all that we had, you know? My mom had me, and I had her.

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.

all we have is our deep and abiding love for each other. We can't loose that or we loose ourselves. If we don't help each other, who will?