All Quotes

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work onstage, so it needs actors to help shape it. So you never get a play right straightaway.
‐‐ Lee Hall

I come from a traditional theater background.
‐‐ Mark Ruffalo

I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue.
‐‐ Jennifer Sky

I come from a typical family.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

I come from a very big family, and I grew up in restaurants.
‐‐ Gloria Votsis

I come from a very big family from every economic background. Some of the streets I talk about, I've actually walked on because I have family from there. Jamaica has so many contradictions.
‐‐ Marlon James

I come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive... I have fourteen classmates.
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o

I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.'
‐‐ Craig Ferguson

I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.
‐‐ Francesca Annis

I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.
‐‐ Dhanush

I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have been married four times each - eight ceremonies with the best of intentions.
‐‐ Joshua Ferris

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.
‐‐ Alexandra Wentworth

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.
‐‐ Marianne Faithfull

I come from a very loving, stable background where I've been persuaded to just be myself and anything is possible.
‐‐ Holliday Grainger

I come from a very musical family. My dad taught me to play guitar. I play violin and drums as well. Violin, I started in elementary school. Drums actually came when I was in a program called 'Rock Star,' which was really awesome. We were doing a song by the Ramones, so I thought, 'Why not play the drums?'
‐‐ Amandla Stenberg

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.
‐‐ Katy Perry

I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.
‐‐ Lynn Flewelling

I come from a very sporting family and played many sports as a lad.
‐‐ Martin McGuinness

I come from a very straight and adjusted suburban background.
‐‐ James Wan

I come from a very uncool profession: being a washed up child actor.
‐‐ Jenny Lewis

I come from a very, very Catholic family. We used to pray the rosary every day after dinner.
‐‐ Juanes

I come from a very, very small town. There were no other actors around. I never met any actors. A lot of those times when I'd be out in the sheds with my dad, I'd step outside, and there's just nothing out there but thousands of acres, forty thousand sheep, and miles of nothing. And so my mind would just wonder about what else was out there.
‐‐ Jason Clarke

I come from a very working-class background.
‐‐ Clive Owen

I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.
‐‐ Michelle Dockery

I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.
‐‐ Mickey Rourke

I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.
‐‐ Charles Kimbrough

I come from a working-class background, and I thought I had to be studying something that would get me a job.
‐‐ Lynn Coady

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.
‐‐ Amy Ryan

I come from a working-class background where I was much more likely to read socialist books and leaflets than Bronte or Dickens - neither of whom I've yet read.
‐‐ Jim Crace

I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.
‐‐ Brian Cox

I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.
‐‐ Patti Smith

I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I pretty much talk the same. It's not like when you see someone like Tim Allen and he's a lot bluer onstage.
‐‐ Billy Gardell

I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me.
‐‐ Per Petterson

I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will reflect. It will be home to electronic dance music, pop, hip-hop.
‐‐ Sean Combs

I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn't all that bad.
‐‐ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
‐‐ Abel Ferrara

I come from a young, hip-hop, urban world.
‐‐ Brandon T. Jackson

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.
‐‐ Michael Heizer

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.
‐‐ Vincent Cassel

I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
‐‐ Laura Mvula

I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
‐‐ Patrick Duffy

I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion.
‐‐ Michael Moorcock

I come from an area where it's mostly, like, football and basketball, those are the sports. So my brother started surfing... I used to make fun of him for it, and then he challenged me to do it, and I'm a huge competitor, and I did it ,and I got hooked.
‐‐ Manny Montana

I come from an army background, and everyone at my home has a habit of getting up early. I continue this habit even today.
‐‐ Esha Gupta

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.
‐‐ P. J. Harvey

I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of grew up in that kind of environment. Oddly enough, I never really knew about my parents' work. I've seen small clips of it, but we never actually spoke about the business.
‐‐ Portia Doubleday

I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid