Family Quotes

"Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member."

"My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him."

"Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends."

"Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars."

"There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees."

"I did come from a pretty independent-minded family."

"The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship."

"Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there."

"In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote."

"I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants."

"I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me."

"I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves."

"Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions."

"My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it."

"I enjoy what I'm able to give my family."

"My family, my parents are hippies."

"My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of &pound10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do."

"A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father."

"The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family."

"It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods."