Quotes About Family

My family is from New Orleans. My grandma is French. Everybody else is from Mississippi - Creole people.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

I'd always been insecure. Being the fourth of five kids means attention is divided five ways, and to do this equally is impossible. I grew up feeling like the little orphan in the family, the one who didn't fit in.

It's odd to think of yourself as an orphan at 55.

Since I was sent to an orphanage, and I saw very little of my mother, I can counsel mothers that you shouldn't abandon your children. Before you bring a child into the world, think deeply about things, so that they lack absolutely nothing, least of all love.

My mom literally saved my life. I wasn't supposed to make it out of the orphanage.

My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got her from an orphanage. They are the lights of my life.

I ended up in Broadmeadows orphanage - I don't know how that happened - whether she gave me up for adoption or the church was responsible. Whatever happened, she was a single mum.

So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.

Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.

Angelina has a rule that she adopts children only when they are orphans.

Now that our mother has died, we're two orphans, Angie and I, so she has a deep understanding of the orphans she adopts.

My grandmother was a nanny for an Orthodox Jewish family, and she would come home and tell us about that.

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

I was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. I don't think I ever had a single discussion with my parents about faith. It was just something gently imposed.

I grew up with my grandmother because my parents were making careers and didn't have much time for me. She was a highly religious Serbian Orthodox, spending most of her time in church. It's a great mix, and I use all these elements in my work.

I come from an orthodox Muslim family.

I was brought up in a very traditional way by my grandparents in an orthodox Tamil-Brahmin family.

I hail from an orthodox family, but they encouraged me to learn various dance forms.

My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.

I have four dogs - Sadi, a Retriever, and Oscar, Ruby and Bella, who are Yorkies.

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for 'The Social Network.'

Everyone asks, 'What's your goal? Do you want to win an Oscar? Do you want to work with Meryl Streep?' No! I want to buy my mum a house. I want to make her proud.