Olivia de Havilland Quotes

I got a lot of whoopings back in the day. I was a very curious kid.

When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

He will punish you as a father punishes his disobedient child, unless you do as he desires.

I was a bad kid. I was a really naughty kid. I couldn't read or write. And that was me punishment - going to acting school.

Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal father when he was with us. We would get grounded if we did something bad. He would ground us. He wouldn't call it grounding; he'd just say, 'You're on punishment.' Sometimes we'd be on punishment a lot.

Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend.

My younger brother will remember that he received a transistor radio for Christmas. I took it apart and it never worked again.

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

I'm so grounded, it's sad.

I got three whippings a day from my mama.

I was grounded for all of my childhood. Not most - all.

I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.

As a kid, I was mischievous, necessarily, but I always wanted to do adventurous stuff.

I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown!

As a teenager, I was perpetually grounded. I was stubborn rather than rebellious.

My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop for Larry King's TV show. There's an 'I-want-to-do-all-things-at-once' kind of theme to it.

In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.

One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't get it back. So I made sure I kept all my clubs.

I have a strong memory of my early childhood. I can remember life before I was two. I remember being toilet-trained like it was last week - and it wasn't last week.

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

I always secretly loved the art of makeup as a child. I would come up with stories and characters and try on my mom's Maybelline eyeliner when she wasn't home. It was a very old-school pencil - you had to burn the tip to make it smudgy enough to use.

A good butt whipping and then a prayer is a wonderful remedy.