Quotes About Family

Every son's first superhero is his father, and it was the same for me. For me, he was Superman and Batman combined.

Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably.

At home, I'm daddy and a husband. There's no Superman's cape. I'm changing diapers, giving my kids baths, and coloring 'Angry Birds' and playing games with them.

I just know that if you make a Superman movie you can't take kids to, you've done something wrong.

My dad was not a footballer. He wasn't anything remotely what the average person would say was a role model - but in my eyes he was Superman.

I loved the time I got to spend in Denver. My boys, Arin and Ryan, were growing up. I got to spend time with them without being pried upon. There was no public scrutiny. I was free and could take them to the supermarket or to the park without being noticed or looked at.

And yes, there's a big difference between playing a negative role in a family drama and a supernatural show. Being an actor, I have to take such risks.

I may not believe in long-drawn rituals but I believe in a supernatural force that gives me strength. This can take the form of my mum, my father, my husband or my failures.

I always had a family that instilled in me red hair was my superpower and how it was such a lovely thing.

My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.

I've always wanted a family. I've always wanted children. I've always wanted to be a superstar.

I had an agent once who wanted me to make many more movies. I said, 'I can't. I can only do one a year, if that. I have children, young children.' And he said, 'Well, I guess you won't be a superstar.' And I said, 'Well, I guess not.'

Since I am an outsider, I never knew how it feels to have a superstar in one's family.

I'm with WWE Superstars so much... more than my own family and we get on each other's nerves.

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

We are often told by our friends and family members to not go to a particular place owing to some unkown energies that might have existed there, making us form superstitions in our mind.

I come from a very long line of very superstitious Romanian women who hold on to their chastity probably way too long.

I am insanely superstitious. All the woman in my family are, beginning with my grandmother, who would leave red ribbons under the beds and taught us how to find four-leaf clovers.

Mom would pack our lunch and send us off with no supervision. There were enough of us so that if she lost a few, there would still be plenty left.

We lived above my father's launderette. Both my parents ran the launderette, but my father was also a factory supervisor, and my mum worked part-time in an accounts office.

Inside of me, it was like my soul and what I had to do to feed my family was always split. I was writing lyrics while I was supposed to be working. I'd look up, and there's my supervisor.

My mum was a costume designer and costume supervisor in the theater and, especially, the ballet. But that was before I was born.

My mom had been a script supervisor in Hungary, but you can't just jump into that in Canada without knowing any English. She worked retail jobs and raised my sister and me while learning English.

I come from Ambedkar Nagar, a small district in Uttar Pradesh 200 kilometres away from Lucknow. My father was an engineer in the army and my mother, Gyan Bala, a health supervisor in a government primary health centre. My father passed away when I was three.