Quotes About Family

I am a Bengali. My mother is from Mangalore so it's a mix of both cultures at home.

I was brought up in a family of journalists, and a mother who was deeply committed to human rights, so I think that the mix of those two huge influences have been very, very important to me.

I'm like a Mr. Mom. I get up and help out, getting the milk together and changing diapers. I've even learned to mix baby formulas and stuff like that.

Mum's home food was comfy, exquisite and she was also capable of the most wonderful gourmet food. She'd mix the rice and dal with stuff and roll these easy-to-pick-up extra-softened little balls of rice.

I told Miss Kay we need to make sure our children don't turn out like I turned out, so they were raised up around biblical instruction. That mixed with discipline - the discipline code, I call it. They just had a lifestyle of seeing their parents do good things.

I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another.

I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.

We are a mixed marriage, so our kids were raised with a little less Judaism than I was raised with.

I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.

My mom is a white Jewish lady, and my dad is black. The cultures never seemed separate - I had a lot of mixed friends. When I was young, I identified with being Jewish, but I embraced my dad's side, too.

You're trying to grow up, and you don't want to be like your parents, and that gets mixed up with being Korean... They brought their values from Korea, and I accepted them because I didn't know anything more. But as I grow older, I feel more Korean every year; it's very strange.

My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go beyond my parents. It was simply the way things were.

Having two kids is like having 1000. It's just scheduling, moving around, being mobile.

My father did shape me. He didn't drive because he had one leg, and for years I never drove. I had no mobility.

When I'm at home, I am in full Dad mode, and I love it.

Anyway, our family went into complete crisis mode. I have two older brothers, and we rallied as a family.

People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.

If I'm working in the city, then as soon as I'm home, I try to lock in on my son for a few hours. Every day. I see how important it is that he's starting to come into my world now. It's just an effort to give him that male mode of being.

As parents, we tend to be in Tell rather than Listen mode.

I have a son and daughter and wife that need me not in basketball mode when I'm home.

I have five young children, and I take being a role model very seriously.

I would love to continue to model but also have a family.

My role model is my dad.

I'm not a role model to my kids. They're a role model to me.