Quotes About Influence

My most important relationships were with my father and grandmother.

I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress.

I did have a very advanced grandmother, my mother's mother, who wanted to buy me a camera. My parents wouldn't let her. Eventually she won, and I got a camera in about 1948, a Voigtlander.

My mom and both of my grandmothers have always been into fashion, so it's been around us our whole lives.

Female influence came from my grandmother and my aunt. They would sing Corsican love songs while cleaning the house and dress all in black and say melodramatic things like: 'I want to die.'

My grandmother used to really love fashion, and she always had Chanel No. 5 on her dressing table, and Chanel bags. That's when I really started falling in love with the brand and fashion in general.

I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.

Madea is a cross between my mother and my aunt. She's the type of grandmother that was on every corner when I was growing up.

My grandmother was my inspiration. She was the person who took me to the theater and encouraged me to act, and she's the one who always believed in me.

Everything I am is because of my grandmother.

I grew up watching 'Gigi.' My grandmother had it, and I watched it there.

Some of the best kids I coach were raised by a grandmother who was so firm that they understood.

It should be your parents and others in the community that you look up to. For me it was my grandmother, a great woman. She had wisdom and knowledge.

My grandmother knew nothing about sports. She still didn't even when I went to the NBA. She never really cared too much about sports. She only cared about me being a good person.

Why do we want to win an award? Yes, my grandmother would be very proud, but I think it's also so people can hear, 'Oh, this show won an award. I guess it's good. I should watch it now.'

My grandmother Shelley was an actress and would tell me about working in the theatre, while my grandpa on Dad's side, Gerard Dynevor, was a big influence in theatre and a TV director.

My dad and grandpa were big golfers, and I think any boy wants to be like their dad. So growing up around him being at the golf course, it was an easy choice for me.

Though not into films, my family was associated with films. My grandparents financed films. They didn't like me getting into films. But, destiny willed it so.

My mom, you know, took off when I was about 6. What ended up happening is I ended up being with my grandparents.

I took the 'Lee' from my grandparents, who took care of me during the day while my mom was away working.

I sort of take cues from my grandparents.

I spent the most impressionable years of my life with my grandparents, and they meant a lot to me, which is why I wanted them to come around with my decision of acting.

Without my mum, dad and my grandparents it wouldn't have been possible to get where I am now.

I grew up with grandparents. My grandparents played a massive part of my growing up.