Quotes About Guidance

You can't be a parent and say, 'I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,' when you're still choosing to have poor eating habits.

Men and women have defined roles, and it's the responsibility of a parent to make sure they know which way to go; otherwise, a child would feed themselves with their feet without the correct guidance.

You have to see, kid by kid, what their needs are and what kind of parent you need to be for them.

As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach.

Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.

I have been listening to people's advice. Being a parent, you need all the advice you can get.

As a parent myself, I can appreciate the MPAA and what they're supposed to do, but what happens with NC-17 is that the MPAA is basically taking away the rights of parents. They're basically telling me that I can't show my kids this movie if I decide they can see it.

I think I'm a good father. As a parent, you have the responsibility to create a foundation for your children so that they can meet all the challenges.

I don't advocate any child following in their parent's footsteps when their parent's footsteps are as crooked as mine are.

You've got to talk to your kids as both a parent and a friend.

They're my instructors, and every parent will understand that.

To lead or to parent means not being liked sometimes.

It is every parent's nightmare when a child is in trouble with the law. As a parent, you can do your best to guide young people, but as adults, they make their own choices and live with the consequences of those decisions.

People think the advantage of a parent in the business is that they'll open doors for you. But the true advantage for me is having someone who knows exactly what you're going through.

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

I realize that I was being the kind of parent that I thought my daughter needed. I was a good role model for her on what a working mom can do.

Acting is something I've done since I was in high school, but I never had a model in my life, whether it was a mentor or a parent, where I could realize that acting could actually be a career.

I'm a parent. I'm a mother.

You can fudge a lot as an actor, but you can't fudge being a parent.

I think having four children made me a good mentor. As a parent, you get to know young people as they mature and grow up and to also learn about some of the difficulties they face.

As a parent, you just want to really make sure your kids understand what you are trying to say as much as their maturity level will allow them to.

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.

I just always play these really extreme characters - they've all come with parental guidance stickers on them.

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.