Good Quotes

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.

Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.

My theory about Jack is that he's not a very good parent.

If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.

I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.

You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the top of their game work as hard as the people at the bottom.

Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.

For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.

There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Fortunately, when Korea was struck by the 1997/8 financial crisis, that was a good opportunity for us to engage in fundamental reforms and strengthen our financial structure. As a result, our financial regulatory structure and regime have been very much strengthened.

It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.

I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.

Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.

I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.