Danny Masterson Quotes

When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.

You discover two things when you're a teenager. One, that your parents are not the idols that you thought they were when you were growing up, if you had nice parents. And two, that you have power over them, and you can upset them and confront them and attack them.

When you're 15 whatever your parents tell you you should do, you're not going to do it.

My mother was very strict, and though I was reserved, I did give in to certain demands of my age, like sneaking out of the house to hit Dublin.

I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I went through my teens, with these 'wild abandon' things.

It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.

Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.

I got older - 16, 17 - I was like, "I want to do my own thing." I wasn't seeing eye to eye with my parents. It wasn't what they wanted for me.

The only lie I really remember from my adolescence was when I was in sixth grade and I was dropped off with a couple of friends at the movie theater to go see a movie, I can't remember which one it was, and we went to go see this movie instead that was rated R. That was sort of a defining moment, that was probably the first time I had ever lied to my parents about something.

When children reach the age of sixteen, they discover the meaning of life: car keys.

I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money.

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.

He scarcely saw his parents. When Christopher was small, he was terrified that he would meet Papa out walking in the Park one day and not recognize him.

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

Most parents of adolescent girls have the goal of keeping their daughters safe while they grow up and explore the world. The parents' job is to protect, the daughter's job is to explore.

The saddest thing was actually getting fed up with one another. It's like growing up in a family. When you get to a certain age, you want to go off and get your own girl and your own car, split up a bit.

Kids lose their trust in the parents they love, but still accept them, so they end up not trusting themselves anymore.

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.

I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.

I was too young to live on campus. I just went back and forth on the bus. Eventually I got my own car and thought I was Mr. Man, so I started hot wheelin' it.

When you're inside and you have no control and when you're the 14-year-old version of Frances Farmer, you know, you have reasons to be angry. You have reasons to be angry when your parents, who are very sheltered themselves, make decisions as to what you should experience in your life and what's normal and what's not.