Quotes About Family

The experience of both acting and producing has been wonderful. It certainly has created a full plate. But it is very exciting and rewarding to have creative input on the show. 'Reed' is about love and family and for me, playing a hand in shaping it has been deeply gratifying.

My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.

My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view.

I've always referred to my father as 'my coach' because we were always able to separate our relationship into the roles of coach and parent.

When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian.

When I was a child, I always wanted to be funny and to please people in my family. As you grow up that instinct becomes more refined, but it's still there.

In some ways, Cash and Carter is a family business that's been handed to me.

My mother caught my ex-wife and sister's husband red handed, in compromising situations many times.

I have a handful of people who work for me - those who do our hair and make-up, ADs - they're like family, so taking care of them is necessary.

I never thought there would be a day when I would have to handle things without my father.

I'll tell you, my dad played and sang, and it didn't take me long to figure out that playing a guitar was a whole lot better than getting ahold of a hoe handle or chopping cotton, man.

My father had a handgun on the bedside table, and we were all taught to handle firearms.

I can handle rumors about me. But I don't like things being written about my wife and my family. They don't need to pay a price for me being a star.

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

I believe things that happen in the ANC family must be handled there.

It's something to be proud about when I'm done, to look back at my career and know I've handled myself the way I wanted to - that my son can look back at my career and be proud of his dad.

I grew up in Alsace - in Strasbourg, by the canal; the family business was coal handling. It was still in the days when three generations would live under the same roof. There were 15 people for lunch, 20 for dinner.

I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many times... my children have accused me of not giving them enough attention. And, frankly, I never have been good at handling that.

We all know money is power. And women won't be equal with men until we are financially equal with men. Getting more money into the hands of women is good for women, but it's also good for their families, for the economy, and for society.

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

My mother had people lay hands on me to cast demons out of me when I was 8. Then two or three times when I was in college.

I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in my life.

I am a hands-on mother, so I take long gaps between films.