Quotes About Family

I've got two chocolate labradors, Murphy and Dexter. They're like my children.

Me and my mother, we both love Eddie Murphy.

For me, acting is like a holiday. I spend a lot of time at home with my kids, and then every so often I go out and flex my creative muscles on stage.

To be honest with you, my mom never really wore makeup when I was growing up. She wasn't really my makeup muse. It was my grandma. The biggest thing that she taught me is that it doesn't matter how your makeup comes out, it's really just how you wear it. If you carry it like you killed your makeup, then that's all that matters.

I think I was eight the first time I saw the Benin bronzes. I was taken to see them at the British Museum by my white, British mother, who felt it important that her half-Nigerian children learned about the artistic achievements of their forefathers. I've been entranced by them ever since.

Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.

I'm a SoHo born-and-raised kid. So my parents dragged me to lots of museums, and for birthdays and any kind of celebration, we'd go to the theater.

My parents were all about education. My mother was a librarian - she retired after 30 years - and she made sure that we were always at museums, that we went to plays.

With any career you're in, there's always a life outside of your career, and that's one thing when you're on the road 300 days of the year, you start missing your family, you miss your friends, you miss all the things you enjoy in life like going to the movies, museums.

Having a daughter made my music, I guess, more meaningful. It made me see more of life when I had my daughter.

Miley Cyrus, like all of us, needs to be loved. We all come from complicated parents... I understand her, and I love her, and I think things will be different with her. But you know, in the music business, sometimes you have to shock a little.

My family wasn't in the music business, but they loved music.

There's a lot to live up to when three of your parents are successful in the music business.

I became a music director because I never saw my father get the success he deserved.

I'm not a musician, I can't read music, but I came from a family of music fans. Not mad music fans, but people who like music. Both of my parents can play the piano. They were very good dancers, which I am not.

My family didn't push me into the music industry; they just wanted me to do something I loved.

My family, particularly my brother, made it possible for me to get into the Punjabi music industry.

Everybody thinks that I would go to Miley and my dad for advice, and I get that they're very successful and very big in the music industry, but I look at them as my sister and my dad.

My family had no money or social connections with the music industry but I came to London and had some success that continues to influence my life.

When I go home, I go to my house in the countryside. I don't hang out in Dublin. I go home to be with my family and have a rest and so on. I don't know anything about the Irish music scene, and I've never felt part of it.

I come from a musical kind of family.

I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

I told my parents about my musical dreams. They let me try my luck.

I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.