When a script like 'Hardflip' comes along, with a real depiction of the rewards of a father-son relationship but also the difficulties of building one, you have my attention.
I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.
I've had the worst relationships because with touring it's impossible.
I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.
Many relationships can become difficult, and it can be hard to find a way back.
Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.
Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
I think life should be easier as you get older and not more difficult. And Ritchie is too difficult a person for me to deal with, because I like to have control of my own life.
I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.
He didn’t know where the thought had come from, or what strange corner of his brain had come to that conclusion, because he was quite certain it would be nearly impossible to live with her, but somehow he knew that it wouldn’t be at all difficult to love her.
But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.
I think I am a product of my mother's sensibilities and my mother's values. There has been lots of battling and lots of love and it's never an easy road for us. But in the deepest recesses, I do have my mother's values.
I mean... in life... what relationship is easy?
Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.
You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.
I made friends slowly when I made them at all.
I think every time you go through a difficult relationship, you realize more and more about what you will and you won't have in your next relationship - what you deserve and what you don't deserve.
It's hard lovin' folks sometimes, isn't it?
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
We know - relationships in this sport, it's very hard to have a really great relationship.
When someone is always going to be there for you. I meet people like that all the time, but I have this unfortunate attraction to people I think I have to fight to become friends with.
It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.
There were a lot of bad relationships that got very convoluted up at Columbia with me, what they expected from me.
