Parents quotes

“Recently, my parents looked me up on the Internet. Asked to meet their grandchildren. Spend a week with them. I looked my parents up, they have a counseling website. People love them. Ironically, they counsel people, which is a hoot.”
Kathryn Hahn - Mom

“- Charlie: Are we friends?
- Will Henry: We're more than that.
- Charlie: What are we?
- Will Henry: We're parents.”

Stephanie Allynne - Charlie
Jemaine Clement - Will Henry

“I remember how her little hand used to fit inside mine.”
Steve Martin - George Banks

“- Senator Ortolan Finistirre: What are you going to do when he turns 18? C'mon, Mr. Naylor. On his 18th birthday will you share a cigarette with him? Will you spend a lovely afternoon like one of your ludicrous cigarette advertisements? You seem to have to have a lot to say about how we should raise our children. What of your own? What are you...” (continue)(continue reading)
William H. Macy - Senator Ortolan Finistirre
Aaron Eckhart - Nick Naylor

“Exceptional children are often the product of unremarkable parents.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes

“I don't live at home. I live above the garage. It's a whole separate dwelling; I've got my own phone line.”
Matthew Lillard - Larry

“My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe.”
Camryn Manheim

“- Captain Hook: Peter! Where are you going? Come back here and fight me! Or I'll find you wherever you are, you hear me? Bad form, Peter, come back!
- Maggie Banning: You need a mother very, very badly!”

Dustin Hoffman - Captain Hook
Amber Scott - Maggie Banning

“Right there, looking into Joey's eyes, it all came back in a rush. Why I do what I do. Defending the defenseless, protecting the disenfranchised corporations that have been abandoned by their very own consumers.”
Aaron Eckhart - Nick Naylor

“What do we know about our parents?”
Albert Hall - Mack Jones

“- Freddy Nefler: You'll be much less neurotic if your parents are happily divorced, rather than unhappily married.
- Phyllis Nefler: Thank you, Phil Donahue.
- Freddy Nefler: I saw it on Oprah!”
Craig T. Nelson - Freddy Nefler
Shelley Lee Long - Phyllis Nefler

“Nowadays people say that you must let children be what they are, but when I was growing up the parents defined the child. And my parents had a definite vision of how they wanted me to be.”
Miriam Margolyes

“- Mrs. Talmann: His father was killed at Aufbergensfeld. His mother became a Catholic so my husband had him brought to England.
- Mr Neville: To be raised as a little Protestant?
- Mrs. Talmann: He was an orphan, Mr. Neville, and needed to be looked after.
- Mr Neville: An orphan, madame, because his mother became a Catholic?”

Anne-Louise Lambert - Mrs. Talmann
Anthony Higgins - Mr Neville

“There was nothing stopping Michelle and me from having a baby except ourselves.”
Billy Crudup - FH

“- Hallie: I guess you have to switch us back now, huh?
- Elizabeth: Legally, you belong to your father and Annie belongs to me.
- Hallie: 'His' and 'Hers, kids. No offense, Mom, but this arrangement really sucks.
- Elizabeth: I agree, it totally sucks. I don't want to lose you now that we've been together.”
Lindsay Lohan - Hallie Parker
Natasha Richardson - Elizabeth James

“One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents.”
Jon Voight

“- Gene Watson: You never once saw your mom and I kiss like that?
- Lynn Watson: No way.
- Gene Watson: Not once? How did you see us kiss? That's it? That 'mwah', that little peck of a kiss? Honey, you missed a whole lot of kissing.”

Johnny Depp - Gene Watson
Courtney Chase - Lynn Watson

“- Prof. Grady Tripp: James like it or not those people out there are your parents.
- James Leer: They're not my parents.
- Prof. Grady Tripp: What?
- James Leer: They're my grandparents... my parents are dead.
- Prof. Grady Tripp: James the man is obviously your father... you look just like him.
- James Leer: There's a reason for that.”
Tobey Maguire - James Leer
Michael Douglas - Prof. Grady Tripp

“- Peyton Kelly: My mom says that she fell in love with you because you played guitar and you sounded just like Elvis.
- Joe Kingman: Really? Well, what do you think?
- Peyton Kelly: I think she was tone deaf, and you sound more like a wounded moose than the king.”
Madison Pettis - Peyton Kelly
The Rock - Joe Kingman

It kills me to know that they look at me and all they can think is, "Where did we go wrong?".

Harvey Forbes Fierstein - Arnold Beckoff

“I loved your piece on the clitoris! I showed it to my mother!”
Daphne Zuniga - Margie Epstein

“- Chomper: I'm sure they'll like you.
- Cera: How? Rare, medium, or well done?”

Cannon Young - Chomper
Anndi McAfee - Cera

“- Goofy: Did you brush your teeth?
- Max: Uh-huh.
- Goofy: Comb your hair?
- Max: Yeah, Dad.
- Goofy: Did you put on clean underwear?
- Max: Dad!!”
Bill Farmer - Goofy
Jason Marsden - Max Goof

“- Mitch: It was on the kitchen table.
- Glen: Uhhh!
- Mitch: And an hour later we ate on that table!”

Billy Crystal - Mitch Robbins
Jon Lovitz - Glen Robbins

“My dad worked 364 days a year, only took Thanksgiving off, and from age 8 to 18, the only time I could hang out with my parents was by staying late. ”
Justin Lin