Fred Rogers
I don't think anybody can grow unless he really is accepted exactly as he is.
A line from Fred Rogers
[to his viewers from his show at the beginning of the movie]
I'd like you to meet a new friend of mine. His name is Lloyd Vogel. [opens a door in the picture board to reveal a photo of a traumatized Lloyd Vogel] Someone hurt my friend Lloyd, and not just on his face. He is having a hard time forgiving the person who hurt him. Do you, do you know what that means? To forgive? It's a decision we make to release a person from the feelings of anger we have at them. It's strange, but sometimes it's hardest of all to forgive someone we love.
More lines from Fred Rogers
5 quotes Fred Rogers
Fred Rogers
I hope you know that you made today a very special day by just your being you. There's no one in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.
Fred Rogers
There... There is no normal life that is free from pain.
Fred Rogers
Depression is rage turned inward. To forgive is to release the anger for someone or something.
Fred Rogers
[to Lloyd]
I don't think you are broken. I know you are a man of conviction, a person who knows the difference between what is wrong and what is right. Try to remember that your relationship with your father also helped to shape those parts. He helped you become what you are.
Scenes with Fred Rogers
4 scenes
Lloyd Vogel
Hey, what did you say to Jerry?
Fred Rogers
I asked him to pray for me. I figure anyone who is going through what he is going through must be awfully close to God.
First AD
Daniel, you set?
Fred Rogers
I'm set!
First AD
Thank you, Daniel.
Lloyd Vogel
Did she just talk to the puppet?
Bill Isler
Daniel isn't just a puppet. Daniel is Fred, and Fred is Daniel.
Oprah Winfrey
What do you think is the biggest mistakes parents make in raising their children?
Fred Rogers
Not to remember their own childhood. I think that the best thing that we can do is to..think about what it was like for us and know what our children are going through.
Oprah Winfrey
But you know what? It's so hard once you get to be a parent. You always say, I will never do this, when your parents are doing it to you. You say, I will never do this to my child. And then you get to our age and you forget what it was like to be this size.You really do forget.
Fred Rogers
Well, but those children can help re-evoke what it was like. That's why, when you're a parent, you have a new chance to grow.
Arsenio Hall
There's an attitude out there. There's some things going on. A lot of hopelessness. What do we need to do?
Fred Rogers
There's no simple answers, of course. But if we could, through television programs, as well as every other imaginable program, let people know that each one of us is precious.
