All Quotes

My parents were huge fans of westerns, European cinema, and horror in particular. They wouldn't just show me kids' films.
‐‐ Hideo Kojima

My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.
‐‐ Francesca Annis

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

My parents were immigrants.
‐‐ Mario Cuomo

My parents were immigrants who started a nursery as a way to get us kids through school. I learned around the dinner table about customer service and cash flow and paying bills.
‐‐ Jack Dangermond

My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.
‐‐ Laura Benanti

My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.
‐‐ Mary of Teck

My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in editing books and journals all of my life.
‐‐ Denis Dutton

My parents were incredibly inclusive.
‐‐ Damian Lewis

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.
‐‐ John Leguizamo

My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl.
‐‐ Dylan Lauren

My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.
‐‐ Philippe Petit

My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour supporter.
‐‐ Robert Harris

My parents were involved in community theater in New Jersey. Instead of hiring a baby sitter, they would take me with them. So my love of acting seeped in from watching my parents and seeing them having fun.
‐‐ Jane Krakowski

My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they did what parents are supposed to do.
‐‐ Tina Yothers

My parents were just as smart as I am, just as hard working if not harder; I think my father and grandfather were probably better men, yet I've been able to accomplish things professionally that they were not able to.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I'd wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, 'You're going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.'
‐‐ Stephen Covey

My parents were just really weird and protective about the music I listened to. Whenever I wanted to buy an album, they would have to buy it first and listen to it and let me know if I could have it.
‐‐ Dane DeHaan

My parents were just searching for an alternative way of raising their children.
‐‐ Joaquin Phoenix

My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.
‐‐ Ian Mcewan

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.
‐‐ Jaron Lanier

My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.
‐‐ Jimmy Fallon

My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.
‐‐ Jack Bowman

My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching.
‐‐ Joanne Harris

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
‐‐ Sara Paretsky

My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.
‐‐ Kelly Ripa

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.
‐‐ Kristy Swanson

My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping for larger privileges for the growing family of children, they brought them to the New World, the world of many intellectual as well as material advantages.
‐‐ Jenkin Lloyd Jones

My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can.
‐‐ Scott Baio

My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.
‐‐ Lewis Black

My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.
‐‐ Paul Rudd

My parents were marvelously educated people.
‐‐ Stephen Fry

My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.
‐‐ Arto Lindsay

My parents were more surprised that I wanted to go away for school than anything. They didn't really understand the benefits.
‐‐ Jennine Capó Crucet

My parents were mourning the death of my sister. She was killed in a car accident before I was born, and I didn't know she existed until I was 13 or 14 years old. I knew I was growing up in a house where people were angry and sad.
‐‐ Andrew Hudgins

My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.
‐‐ Mikhail Khodorkovsky

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.
‐‐ Boz Scaggs

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.
‐‐ Paul Nurse

My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.
‐‐ Michele Lee

My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
‐‐ Kabir Bedi

My parents were Northern Ireland Labour party people. We read the 'Guardian' and the 'New Statesman,' listened to the BBC. The house was full of books. We didn't get a television until 'That Was The Week That Was' started. There was nothing to do but read.
‐‐ Tom Paulin

My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.
‐‐ Dwight Yoakam

My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right away that I was an actor, even from 4 years old. I've never waited a table. I taught some - I'll teach classes in improv or Shakespeare, but there's some motor in me that needs to do that.
‐‐ John Michael Higgins

My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young.
‐‐ Eric Kandel

My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Don McLean

My parents were not perfect, but no one's parents are. As childhoods go, mine was pretty comfortable and good in a lot of ways, and yet I still ended up with anxiety.
‐‐ Scott Stossel

My parents were not theatrical at all.
‐‐ Jane Asher

My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they - any parent hopes for their child.
‐‐ Emmylou Harris

My parents were obsessed with my education.
‐‐ Cory Booker