Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart, be real, but most importantly be nice.

Germany Kent
Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be...
Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be...
Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be...
Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be...
About This Quote

The late actor, actor and activist Robin Williams perfectly captures the lesson of this quote in a single scene from his movie “Good Will Hunting.” In the middle of a conversation between Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, the two men play a game of word association in which they must guess what a person is thinking about by saying “nice.” While they are at it, the men also have to guess how two young girls will react when they meet a young man who says that he is nice. The girls are played by Minnie Driver (who was then five years old) and Jada Pinkett Smith (who was then six). The two little girls act out the two roles that could be played by their future daughters. Driver ends up playing the role of the evil girlfriend, while Pinkett Smith plays the role of the good daughter. The boys play themselves, and they get flustered when Damon asks for an answer about what they think nice means.

Affleck asks them to be “real.” Williams plays “nice” with great gusto in this film, and he left an indelible impression on his fans. The memories that people have about Williams are filled with his genuineness and kindness, but one of his most powerful images was not scripted at all. He played it off-screen between takes between Driver and Pinkett Smith.

As she walked toward her mother to find out what was happening, Williams told Driver: “Your mom is so pretty.” He was telling her how pretty her mother looked, not how pretty she looked herself.

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