Peter Fonda Quotes

It seemed like my father and I were always fighting. I know a lot of kids go through that with their families, but it was hard for me.

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.

I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.

'The Fighter' was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, and I went back and rewrote this script which I had written for my son initially because my son has mood disorder.

I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

There's actually 14 in our family, but we disowned the others.

The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

I love books about dysfunctional families.

Occasionally I've seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her.

That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.

Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction.

Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

My relationship with my mom is really bad.

My parents felt judged by me.

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'

My mother cared a lot about clothes. It was a point of friction because when I was a teenager, and I only wanted to wear my father's shirts, and I never wanted to wear makeup, she would say: 'Put on lipstick.' That was her thing.