All Quotes

My family understands the pain of struggling with a loved one who's suffering from a blood-related cancer, and we seek to support those who are working to find a cure.
‐‐ Nadia Bjorlin

My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.
‐‐ Jeremy Lin

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.
‐‐ Jay McShann

My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.
‐‐ Paul Anka

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.
‐‐ Alice Walker

My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear!
‐‐ Bella Thorne

My family was actually homeless for several years when I was a kid. It's a bit unusual for a member of Congress.
‐‐ Kyrsten Sinema

My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are.
‐‐ Vinny Guadagnino

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.
‐‐ Tyler Hilton

My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.
‐‐ Robert Crais

My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.
‐‐ Mika Brzezinski

My family was always playing with words. It is little wonder that even after I got serious about writing, I've had a hard time getting serious about words.
‐‐ James Howe

My family was always supportive when I decided that I wanted to pursue this thing called acting.
‐‐ Selenis Leyva

My family was amazing; they exposed me to the world of show business, and, boy, it was the '70s and I got to spend a lot of time backstage at theaters and see the inner workings of how this entertainment industry is really put together.
‐‐ Christian Slater

My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.
‐‐ Lorraine Bracco

My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.
‐‐ Constance Marie

My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and I met my great-aunt, who was just a force of nature. She was an elocution teacher and a huge enthusiast for theater and the classics. I took her amateur acting class, and she was really impressed with me.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of 1942, the Japanese invasion of Burma and Singapore had started.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
‐‐ Karen Mills

My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?
‐‐ Ja Rule

My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God.
‐‐ Bob Balaban

My family was mostly unemployed working class.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple's double - she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the '20s, '30s and '40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.
‐‐ Gloria Estefan

My family was my guide to my reality.
‐‐ Haywood Nelson

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.
‐‐ Gemma Arterton

My family was never happy with me. I could just say that across the board.
‐‐ Peter Beard

My family was not Republicans. I'm the youngest. I came to this party based upon choice.
‐‐ Kevin McCarthy

My family was perfect.
‐‐ Jim Rash

My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual fact.
‐‐ Marilynne Robinson

My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.
‐‐ Elayne Boosler

My family was very conservative, and I had a traditional upbringing. I was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one. The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous and fortunate misunderstanding.
‐‐ Raquel Welch

My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.
‐‐ Clare Bowen

My family was very Halloween-friendly, for all of the religion and whatever was going on.
‐‐ Bill Moseley

My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang.
‐‐ Blythe Danner

My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.
‐‐ Ajay Naidu

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.
‐‐ Tony Hale

My family was very unhappy about my becoming a photographer - profoundly and deeply unhappy.
‐‐ Saul Leiter

My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.
‐‐ Laura Prepon

My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
‐‐ Pam Grier

My family wasn't in the music business, but they loved music.
‐‐ Andra Day

My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.
‐‐ Jackie Speier

My family wasn't rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, 'Err on the side of caution.'
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

My family, we're all WASPs.
‐‐ James Woolsey

My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger

My family went to Toronto to visit relatives when I was 13 or 14. It was the first time we had ever been abroad. This was the early Eighties, and I remember the impossible glamour of air travel - my mum spending days trying to decide what she was going to wear on the plane.
‐‐ John Niven

My family were all entrepreneurs, including my parents and grandparents.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
‐‐ Elizabeth McGovern

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.
‐‐ Peter Gallagher

My family were from Jamaica.
‐‐ Diane Abbott