Quotes About Family

My kids are old enough now that they can watch that, but I like to do the family movies.

All my cousins are almost old enough to start seeing my movies. I'm going to have some 'splainin' to do.

I looked at my mom and her life, and I thought, 'I don't want that.' I don't think my mom wanted it, either. I think my mom did want to be out there and have a career. She loved working. As soon as we were old enough to feed ourselves, she was out.

I never think I'm old enough to play someone's dad, even though I have a daughter of my own and a grandson.

I am most passionate about dancing and acting, so performing was my focus, always. Even before I was old enough to be serious about it, I was always meddling with things - dancing all over the place and performing for my family.

I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room.

My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.

If you think I'm a drunk, you shoulda seen my old man.

When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone, and he asked me to take him home. When an old man asks you to take him home, you have to do it.

My old man taught me a lot of stuff in his death that I don't even know if he would have been able to teach me had he been alive. And that was to never do stuff that can jeopardize the people you love and hurt them.

My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.

My old man never used to cook, so we lived on takeaway. The others were always jealous.

My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life.

My old man was ruthless. He terrorised us.

I grew up in a household where I learned five things from my old man. You know what they were? You're no good. You're a failure. You're not going to amount to anything. Don't trust nobody, and don't tell nobody your business. When I lost to Larry Holmes in 1982, I felt all five of those things smacked me right across the face.

You ever try to beat your dad up? It just don't happen. He's got that old man strength.

Give them a big hug. He's your old man - why is it so hard?

Personally, I like to think I'm like my old man. I like to think I have the brains he did.

My dad was an old school guy, but my mom was very much like 'you feel what you need to feel.'

It's like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don't want to be together. The kids would rather you be happy - and separate - than together and miserable. I don't want my kid to grow up around two parents who just don't work.

My sister is three years older and super foxy, and I always looked like a 50 year old woman.

The only way I'm interested in having a baby is the old-fashioned way.

My grandma was so old-fashioned. She thought we were supposed to have homework every night. I would come home, and she would be like, 'Where's your homework?' and I'd be like, 'I don't have none.' She'd be like, 'I'ma call your teacher.'

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I'm an old-fashioned mama's boy.