Blake Lively Quotes

I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.

My brother and I had a lot of freedom growing up, and thankfully, we both turned out OK.

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.

I grew up as one of six kids.

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.

The swashbuckling independence of my childhood was not all good, and as a father, I'm puzzling out how to be part of my children's lives rather than shoehorning them into mine. But there's a risk that I'll overcompensate, of course.

I was very shy as a girl. Absurdly shy, even. Maybe because I was an only child. And I think that's why I'm so happy to have two kids now.

My parents were obsessed with us being normal kids, so I never knew movie stars. They didn't want us to be Hollywood brats.

I grew up in a family with five kids.

As a kid, you're so at the mercy of the people around you, the people raising you, your environment.

I had that extroverted energy, and I always involved myself in quite adult conversations. My mum never hid us from that. There was never a kids' table; we were never treated as kids, per se, because I don't think she believes in that.

No one had ever said anything like that to Evie. Her parents always wanted to advise or instruct or command. They were good people, but they needed the world to bend to them, to fit into their order of things. Evie had never really quite fit, and when she tried, she’d just pop back out, like a doll squeezed into a too-small box.

Are anybody's parents typical?

I think that it's a natural thing for parents to look for reflections of themselves in their children and feel a certain pride there. So if your child is very, very different, or perhaps if he's very, very similar, it makes you uncomfortable.

When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.

It's not my business to raise anybody else's kids. Mom and Dad got to do all that.

People tell me what to do every single day. They think I'm boring. I'm Disney kid. So, there's that.

You can't please everyone. Just because I don't behave a certain way, some folks will say you don't have any street cred. I've pretty much had to put up with that since I was a little kid, just because I was raised to communicate in a certain fashion. Some people didn't like it.

Children accept their world as the world. I grew up like kids that I went to school with. Their parents were either shrinks or actors.

I'd prefer if people had no impressions of me. As a kid, I had to tell my own family, "Please, just don't talk about me!" Because they always got it wrong. Always. I just didn't want them to tell anyone anything about me.