Gloria Swanson Quotes

My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.

I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.

I felt like I needed to come to terms with the decision I'd made to let go of my family. What do you do when you want to be loyal to your family but you feel that loyalty to them is in conflict somehow with loyalty to yourself?

At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.

Sometimes I wish I didn't have somebody in my family who's in the business.

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

I am the odd man out in the family.

I quit college and neglected to tell my dad.

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

I didn't actually get along with my dad when I was growing up, so by the time I was in my 20s, I didn't think I was going to be a writer.

Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.

I could share an hour of warm camaraderie with Dad, then once I'd walked out the door, get the uncanny feeling I'd disappeared into the wings of his mind's stage, like a character no longer necessary to the ongoing story line.

I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.

My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

'East of Eden' is an important story for me. It's about a kid that's misunderstood and feels like he's not loved by his father. It's a very father-son kind of story, and it's not until the end that they sort of make up. I like that because every boy has trouble with his father, so it's very relatable.

I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

It's hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my father's equal in any way.

I never had a real conversation with my father.

My family - it wasn't an abusive family - they meant well, but they were in their own world.

My relationship with my mom is really bad.

I'm one of three boys raised by a single mom in a military beach town in the South.

Sometimes I am so much my father's son that I give myself occasional creeps.

I wasn't close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed all the time - good and loud, like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good-looking. And he wanted to be close to me, too, but we never had much time together.