All Quotes

I come from a multicultural family.
‐‐ Sarah Jones

I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.
‐‐ Action Bronson

I come from a musical kind of family.
‐‐ Chris O'Dowd

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events.
‐‐ Jess Walter

I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe.
‐‐ Christopher Walken

I come from a place of loving people - all human people.
‐‐ Ayman Odeh

I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.
‐‐ Amber Heard

I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.
‐‐ Teddy Thompson

I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.
‐‐ Eddie Marsan

I come from a place where we feel like we're not represented in the national media.
‐‐ Shepard Smith

I come from a place where we're not that shy about our bodies.
‐‐ Heidi Klum

I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.
‐‐ Pranab Mukherjee

I come from a poor family.
‐‐ Manny Pacquiao

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
‐‐ Narendra Modi

I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
‐‐ Maiwenn

I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it.
‐‐ Marc Anthony

I come from a pretty humble family, and I try to be a humble guy.
‐‐ Andrew Benintendi

I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer.
‐‐ Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I come from a pretty strange family.
‐‐ Illeana Douglas

I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.
‐‐ Bob Ainsworth

I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you did; it was a prerequisite. It's what a man did. You get up, you put on your boots, and you work hard. We've lost a lot of that, I'm afraid.
‐‐ John C. Reilly

I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.
‐‐ James E. Rogers

I come from a prose background. I come from short story background, and that led me into novels.
‐‐ Greg Rucka

I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw Edie Sedgewick once at the Art Museum in Philly. She had these black leotards and little black pumps and this big ermine cape and all these white dogs and black sunglasses and black eyes. She was classy!
‐‐ Patti Smith

I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.
‐‐ Tony Shalhoub

I come from a really lovely, really smart family where the only stress was money and employment.
‐‐ Paul Schneider

I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains.
‐‐ Noemie Lenoir

I come from a religious family - my father is a pastor, my uncle, my sister and her husband are a pastor team.
‐‐ Tom Ellis

I come from a rural state. People drive 50, 100 miles to and from work every single day. That is true all over America.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Now admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story.
‐‐ David Crosby

I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.
‐‐ Lorde

I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.
‐‐ Camila Alves

I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'
‐‐ Dionne Warwick

I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.
‐‐ Chris Isaak

I come from a small village in Sicily. For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.
‐‐ Domenico Dolce

I come from a specific area in Beirut where it's multicultural, and it's a culture that blends with multiple cultures - it's unbelievable lifestyle.
‐‐ Reem Acra

I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.
‐‐ Kirsty Gallacher

I come from a strong matriarchal line. I was raised by Gypsy, her sister, Mary, and my maternal grandmother. The result of not having my father live with us meant that, when it came to understanding the opposite sex, it was like working without a map.
‐‐ Cherie Lunghi

I come from a strong religious background, and I had a very conservative upbringing. So I was nervous, and confused. Here I was wanting to be Whitney Houston, so why did I have to dress in lingerie to do that? I didn't get it.
‐‐ Nicole Scherzinger

I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
‐‐ Samira Wiley

I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.
‐‐ Ashley Bell

I come from a theater background, so usually, at the start, you know what happens and where the character goes and everything. But with TV, it's really unpredictable.
‐‐ Kimiko Glenn

I come from a theatrical background, where, if you're working on a movie or a play, you always respect the people you work with. You're accommodating.
‐‐ Derek Hough

I come from a time when every kid dressed up. Everybody. If you didn't, you wouldn't be able to hang out. It was very tribal. There's nice things in that. It's culture; it's roots for me.
‐‐ Paul Weller

I come from a time when people like Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby told stories that were devastatingly funny without being off-color.
‐‐ Bill Engvall

I come from a time when pop music was the coin of the cultural realm and in a certain way was the only coin of the realm; movies didn't matter as much, and not TV - it was all about pop music. In the era when I started - which was the early '60s - it was all about singles leading to albums.
‐‐ Fred Seibert

I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

I come from a tough stock.
‐‐ Michael Douglas