Parents quotes

“- Joey Naylor: Why did you tell that reporter all your secrets?
- Nick Naylor: You're too young to understand.
- Joey Naylor: Mom says it's because you have dependency issues and it was all just a matter of time before you threw it all away on some tramp.
- Nick Naylor: Well, that's one theory.”
Aaron Eckhart - Nick Naylor
Cameron Bright - Joey Naylor

“- Hephaistion: What would you do if you ever reached the end of the world? I wonder sometimes, if it's not your mother you run from, so many years, so many miles between you, what is it you fear?
- Alexander: Who knows these things? When I was a child my mother thought me divine; my father, weak. Which am I, Hephaistion? Weak or divine?”
Jared Leto - Hephaistion
Colin Farrell - Alexander

“- Jack Byrnes: We use the Ferber method.
- Bernie Focker: We use the Focker method. We hugged and kissed that little boy like there was no tomorrow. We Fockerized him.”
Robert De Niro - Jack Byrnes
Dustin Hoffman - Bernie Focker

“- Rusty Griswold: Dad, I think he's gonna pork her.
- Clark Griswold: He's not gonna pork her, Russ.
- Rusty Griswold: I think he's gonna.
- Clark Griswold: He may pork her, finish your breakfast.”

Jason Lively - Rusty Griswold
Chevy Chase - Clark Griswold

“Yo, I'm Gilbert. This summer, my parents shipped me off to camp. I caught impetigo. And when I got back, my dad had moved out. Only since then he moved back, but he's still sleeping in my room and I'm sleeping on the couch.”
Louis Martin Braga III - Gilbert Bates

“I'm very happy to be here. I love my country. I miss my parents. Mom, dad, they're treating me alright here.”

Brian Geraghty - Fergus

“Children, I'm afraid I must inform you of an extremely unfortunate event. I'm very, very sorry to tell you this but your parents have perished in a fire that has destroyed your entire home.”
Timothy Spall - Mr. Poe

“- Rozalin Focker: Well you know, honey, many unplanned pregnancies happen because the man is such a sexual dynamo, and the woman craves his sperm on an unconscious but very powerful level.
- Greg Focker: Mom, I'm truly not comfortable having this conversation with you. I've been telling you that since I was eleven.”
Barbra Streisand - Rozalin Focker
Ben Stiller - Greg Focker

“We don't just mediate between warring partners. We also check up the child itself psychologically. How does the child deal with the conflicts? Our advice is always binding. Don't take this the wrong way, but you left them. They didn't leave you. You left for another woman. For now, we see no reason to give you custody.”

Nelly Frijda - Dr. Ellis K.P.R.

- Jane Smith: My parents died when I was five. I'm an orphan.
- John Smith: Who was that kind fellow who gave you away at our wedding?
- Jane Smith: Paid actor.
- John Smith: I said, I said I saw your dad on "Fantasy Island"!
Angelina Jolie - Jane Smith
Brad Pitt - John Smith

“- Batman: Do you still follow your dad's orders?
- Andrea Beaumont: The way I see it, the only one in this room controlled by his parents is you.”
Kevin Conroy - Batman
Dana Delany - Andrea Beaumont

“Where John made his mistake I think was in attaching so much importance to what her mother and I might think... because in the final analysis it doesn't matter a damn what we think.”
Spencer Tracy - Matt Drayton

“- Fool: Listen Alice, they're not your real parents.
- Alice: What?
- Fool: They're not. They're not even husband and wife. They stole you, like they did Roach and all the others. They're a bunch of rotten baby snatchers.
- Alice: You're just saying that...
- Fool: My grandfather Booker told me. He wouldn't lie to me.”
Brandon Quintin Adams - Fool
A.J. Langer - Alice

“- Paula Olsen: All the research shows that children who perceive their parents enjoying a good sex-life grow up to have far better sexual relationships themselves.
- Jerome Lovell: Is that so?
- Paula Olsen: Yea, that's so.”
Natasha Richardson - Paula Olsen
Liam Neeson - Jerome Lovell

“We're both orphans, James. But while your parents had the luxury of dying in a climbing accident, mine survived the British betrayal and Stalin's execution squads. My father couldn't let himself or my mother live with the shame. MI6 figured I was too young to remember. And in one of life's little ironies, the son went to work for the government...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sean Bean - Alec Trevelyan

“People always say that you can't choose your parents, but you can't choose your children.”
James Rebhorn - Herbert Greenleaf

“- Jack: He'd probably get you here, right here, under the chin, and you'd never even hear him. That's how good Riddick is!
- Paris: Tell me, did you run away from your parents, or did they run away from you?”

Rhiana Griffith - Jack
Lewis Fitz-Gerald - Paris P. Ogilvie

“- Ed Bloom - Senior: Havin' a kid changes everything. There's burping, the midnight feeding, and the changing.
- Will Bloom: You do any of that?
- Ed Bloom - Senior: No. But I hear it's terrible. Then you spend years trying to corrupt and mislead this child, fill his head with nonsense, and still it turns out perfectly fine.”
Albert Finney - Ed Bloom - Senior
Billy Crudup - Will Bloom

“If I had a nickel for every cigarette your mom smoked, I'd be dead.”
Moira Kelly - Donna Hayward

“- Murray: Your mother and I both love you.
- Elizabeth: But we don't respect you!”
Burt Young - Murray
Fionnula Flanagan - Elizabeth

“- Fender: You consider me a friend?
- Rodney Copperbottom: Sure. What else would I consider you?
- Fender: I don't know. An embarrassment? A way to rebel against your parents? A desperate cry for help? The list is endless.”
Robin Williams - Fender
Ewan McGregor - Rodney Copperbottom

“That's not gross! Shit, gross is when you go to kiss your grandpa good night and he sticks his tongue down your throat. That's gross!”
Mac Davis - Seth Maxwell

“Please don't ruin my childhood.”

Cameron Bright - Joey Naylor

“- Beth Horman: And what are the basics? God, country and Wall Street?
- Ed Horman: You know what I mean.
- Beth Horman: I know, I know. God bless our way of life!
- Ed Horman: A very good way of life it is, young lady, no matter how much people like you and Charles try to tear it down with your sloppy idealism. I can no longer abide the young...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sissy Spacek - Beth Horman
Jack Lemmon - Ed Horman

“New parents go photo crazy.”
Robin Williams - Seymour Parrish