Quotes About Family

I'm not much of a baby freak - I like them when they're older.

My parents were very, very good about not separating us as kids from their adult friends. So on any given night, we'd have, like, this kind of freak show - artists and art dealers coming over. And these are the people I feel like I learned from.

Usually when I work, I'm totally dedicated to the role, and when I leave the set, I bring some of my character home with me, but I can't bring anyone home with me now because my son would freak out.

I'm a control freak. And more so now that I have children.

How do I let go of Maplewood? It's like Shangri-la. It's so culturally diverse, and all my children are adopted - a transracial family. And we're not the freaks. Everybody flies their freak flag high in Maplewood!

My mom always had me and my brother watching old Fred Astaire movies.

Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the father part.

She was just the most wonderful mother. She loved working with Fred Astaire - she would talk about working with him.

I think that my parents wanted my brother and I to do what they couldn't have done and live a free life and not worry about war.

Any free time I have, the family comes first.

I spend my free time at home with my kids.

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers. Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing was the one that was a little more freed up - like, no one in my family is really doing that; I can be that person.

We have freedoms and boundaries; we just have a great family life.

For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing me to stay home with our daughter, but not so great financially or, sometimes, ego-wise.

My mother is French, my father is Texan.

Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

I'm not saying that every night of the week, my husband, ex-husband, our children and I all sit around together like one big happy family. But we do see each other frequently, and everyone loves each other, and we are all friends.

I think my cat is adorable, and I probably give it too much fresh chicken. Maybe if I had a child, I'd be giving the chicken to the child.

By the time I arrived for my freshman year at Swarthmore College in 1979, I had already had many seizures, although my family, friends and I did not know it.

My mother worked in a school canteen - then worked in the canteen of a chicken factory. Every Friday, the pay packet money would be allocated to cover bills.

North of England, you're brought up on fish and chips. Friday or Saturdays every week, it was a treat.

When I was young, I loved the feeling of escaping to the rocks on a Friday afternoon with my parents.

My mum was a lone parent at the age of 18, bringing up a son in the 1980s. The benefits system put food in the fridge.