Family Quotes

"I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern."

"I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father."

"Whoever does not have a good father should procure one."

"My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him."

"I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus."

"I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it."

"Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new."

"Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold."

"I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols."

"My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash."

"I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of."

"Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business."

"Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago."

"When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?"

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."

"Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration."

"I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me."

"Holidays are the best. I couldn't imagine being from a small family."

"It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible."

"Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below."