Christopher Lloyd Quotes

I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.

Every family is a crazy family.

I mean, families are weird.

Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'

I love any book that makes my family seem almost normal.

Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have.

My family is as far from a stage family as you could ever possibly find.

I don't know that it exists, the perfect family. It's always complicated.

I don't have a creepy uncle, but I certainly have many, many uncles. My mom has twelve brothers and sisters, and my dad has two sisters and three brothers. Their maturity level is still hovering around fifteen when they all get together, but they're not necessarily creepy.

I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.

I'm kind of proud of being a love child.

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

I'm the fifth of six kids, and we're quite an eclectic family. People call us the 'Royal Tenenbaums,' because we're that kind of wonky.

She liked to imagine him stealing a glimpse of her over the backyard fence, proudly watching his strange daughter daydream under the beech tree. Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.

there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.

It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.

Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die.

Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.

When we have fights in our family, they don't end with an apology. You make up by getting back to normal. Like you'll call and say, 'You want to go shopping?'

It is a family; it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family.

[Our family is] a wonderfully messy arrangement, in which relationships overlap, underlie, support, and oppose one another. It didn't always come together easily nor does it always stay together easily. It's known very good times and very bad ones. It has held together, often out of shared memories and hopes, sometimes out of the lure of my sisters' cooking, and sometimes out of sheer stubbornness. And like the world itself, our family is renewed by each baby.

I have always loved telling stories about families. I love the idea of people who may not choose to be together, but are nonetheless bonded for life and forced to interact and develop these relationships. I love the tension throwing different types of people under one roof creates.

You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people at random and then says to them all, 'Hey! You're going to spend the next seventy years together, even though you have nothing in common and don't even like each other. And, should you not feel yourself caring about any of this group of strangers, even for a second, you will just feel dreadful

Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets.

Although I really like the people I travel with, family is just different, and having them around at all times is a really nice thing - and a luxury.