All Quotes

My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.
‐‐ Tabatha Coffey

My parents actually wanted me to join the service.
‐‐ Krysten Ritter

My parents adopted me, and then, by the age of four or five, I was asking all sorts of questions, and they found themselves with a son who was interested in the sorts of things that they valued but weren't natural to them.
‐‐ Michael Gove

My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down.
‐‐ John Cassavetes

My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of our challenges at home and abroad, and shared their ideas for how to build a more equal and prosperous country. I always felt part of their call to serve and part of my father's journey.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.
‐‐ Betty Cuthbert

My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.
‐‐ Jack Kilmer

My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
‐‐ Ferid Murad

My parents always got a kick out of my art. I was always able to make them laugh. As I got older, I remember the thrill I got when I graduated from making my classmates laugh to making adults laugh. Kind of a watershed moment.
‐‐ Steve Breen

My parents always instilled in me this feeling of wanting to be a normal person. I never moved out to L.A. as a kid and got into that scene and that whole thing that happens to kid actors that's the reason they go off the deep end.
‐‐ Joseph Mazzello

My parents always instilled knowing that your beautiful, that your fearfully and wonderfully made, and that you know who you are.
‐‐ Amber Riley

My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!
‐‐ Christopher Eccleston

My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.
‐‐ Benmont Tench

My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The only thing they told me was that I had to wait until I was 18 so I could get my education out of the way first.
‐‐ Rumer Willis

My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.
‐‐ Debra Messing

My parents always made me dress up for church. I really didn't want to.
‐‐ Amar'e Stoudemire

My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.
‐‐ Gwen Stefani

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me.
‐‐ Meredith Brooks

My parents always say I have really good legs. I've worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs.
‐‐ Samaire Armstrong

My parents always stressed finding some sort of creative outlet, so they would take me to dance classes, take me to jazz clubs.
‐‐ Julia Stiles

My parents always swore that in my childhood they had to let me win at board games. If, by the lucky stroke of the plastic wheel, my father would accidentally beat me at Candy Land, I would fly into fits of bawling that I'm told would last for hours. If I couldn't triumph, I didn't want to play.
‐‐ Koren Zailckas

My parents always taught me never to take anything for granted because it can be taken away from you like that, especially when it comes to looks. I could get into a car crash tomorrow and disfigure my face. So I have to stay grounded.
‐‐ Lance Gross

My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.
‐‐ Daymond John

My parents always threw everything out, gave everything away. I'm surprised they never threw me away. That's why I've always kept my children's things. My parents had no feelings for belongings.
‐‐ Spike Milligan

My parents always told me, 'Do what you love because that is what you will do well in.' They told me to make sure that you are happy.
‐‐ Dylan Lauren

My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted to be.
‐‐ Carole King

My parents always told me I'm beautiful the way that I am, and I never thought to myself that I needed to be skinny because there's a magazine out there that said, 'Oh, size two,' or, 'Oh, this girl's beautiful because she's skinny.'
‐‐ Hayley Hasselhoff

My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.
‐‐ Marion Cotillard

My parents always told me that nothing was impossible.
‐‐ Richard Rogers

My parents always told me that you always want to be the worst of the best. If you are the best, you never learn.
‐‐ Toni Trucks

My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make them laugh. And they always told me to dream big and follow those dreams.
‐‐ Richard Simmons

My parents always told my sister and me that if we wanted to, we could be doctors and lawyers, like my father and his brothers, like some of their women friends. Denise and I had art in our sights, though.
‐‐ Margo Jefferson

My parents always used to tell us not to complain about things but do something about them, so 'Can't is not an option' was almost a way of life.
‐‐ Nikki Haley

My parents always wanted me to know why eating healthfully was important to overall performance, probably to drown out my whining for junk food.
‐‐ Daphne Oz

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.
‐‐ Daniel Bruhl

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.
‐‐ Leon Jouhaux

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.
‐‐ Colin Firth

My parents and grandparents listened to bacheta heavy, the true bachata from back in the day - Juan Luis Guerra, Anthony Santos. I liked the genre, but I remember thinking, 'OK, enough of this.' I would sing Usher's 'U Remind Me' to the girls in school.
‐‐ Prince Royce

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

My parents and my brothers and their wives are incredible and formed me as a person long before I got to Hollywood.
‐‐ John Krasinski

My parents and my family really tried to maintain as much of a normal environment as possible. When I went home, it wasn't Keshia Knight Pulliam the actress, the glitz, the glamour. It was Keshia the daughter. Oldest of four children, who washed the dishes and did everything she was supposed to do.
‐‐ Keshia Knight Pulliam

My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.
‐‐ Brandi Chastain

My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

My parents and my sister died... very close together, and after that, I lost quite a bit of my sense of humor. Most of it I think has kind of come back, but I know there was a time when I didn't think things were funny anymore. I kind of think they're funny again.
‐‐ Thomas McGuane

My parents are a bedrock. And I have three complex, strong, and funny sisters who inspire and sustain me.
‐‐ Christina Baker Kline

My parents are a big help, and they're always making sure I have a normal life and my life isn't all just about acting and stuff.
‐‐ Cayden Boyd

My parents are a wonderful mixture of bohemian eccentric, but also incredibly practical and not airy-fairy.
‐‐ Sophie Kennedy Clark

My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.
‐‐ Amy Waldman

My parents are always a great litmus test. Based on the amount of shrieks my mother gives when we're out in public, her constant shock when somebody comes up and says something nice.
‐‐ Rick Hoffman