Robert Evans Quotes

As a parent, I can get so frustrated. Any parent can!

I think it is since I became a parent that I am much more afraid.

I was always admiring people who seemed to conduct themselves with ease in the world. Maybe that's a great gift to give your kids if you can do that. Because they can move through the world without neurosis, this anxiety about everything, which our own parents gave us.

I'm the father of two boys and two girls, so I'm more an emotional wreck than a mushball.

'I am a bad mother.' Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I'm sure that other mothers are happily baking cookies, decorating trees, and finding perfect gifts for everyone.

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.' When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can't seem to stop ourselves.

I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.

I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules.

I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born - I started getting wicked BO. You know there's a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

Actually, I didn't start sweating until I had children.

It's no accident that I'm not married and don't have kids yet. Because, despite what I've achieved in my career, I'm always wondering when somebody's gonna tap me on the shoulder and say, 'OK, the gig is up.'

As a mom, you have all these situations you go through, and you're like, 'What is going on? Is this normal? Is this a phase? Or what is this?' and then you feel silly for asking questions because you think, 'I'm a mom - I'm supposed to know these things,' but you don't.

I'm trying to avoid, you know, guilt, even though before the child is born, you're already thinking you're doing things wrong... Why do I think that will probably carry over until the day you die?

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

Parents do not have the courage to say no to certain things that their children demand. They are rather scared of their children.

I'm scared of screwing up my kids.

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

Every single second of every single day... I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?'

Being a developmental psychologist didn't make me any better at dealing with my own children, no. I muddled through, and, believe me, fretted and worried with the best of them.

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

Motherhood is like a big sleeping bag of guilt.