Quotes About Family

There's nobody in the arts in my family. It was kind of embarrassing to even say that I wanted to be an actor.

I really embrace everything about my daughter.

If I can help one family embrace their child and not displace them and throw them out, I'm happy about that.

I definitely want to embrace the relationships I have with the people I love.

Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.

I think the love of your family, Black love, is really embracing your family and doing everything you can to make sure they're safe.

If I'm out for a shoot, I provide someone else's number to my family for any emergency. Otherwise, I have a landline at home.

But I applaud my parents for they never really put us in hell. Whatever, emotionally, they were going through... they made sure they never took that out at home.

I think my biggest role as a parent is teaching empathy.

Everything's harder for women: harder to start, to stay employed, to run a life with a family.

I think we should be looking at ways that we can make childcare more available at the place of employment.

When you empower women, it's not just what's happening in her family: it's whats happening in her community and what's happening with her children.

I was raised by an empowered woman. I married an empowered woman.

I come from a family where I have been empowered.

I feel such a sense of empowerment being a mom. But I do wonder: How do they/we do it all?

I've never had an empty house. Ever.

My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.

I'm never more encouraged than to hear someone talk about how eerie it is that I move like my father.

My parents really encouraged me.

We're not an acting family, but my parents have always encouraged me.

For those of us that were involved from the first days of 'Battlestar,' we were encouraged to give of ourselves and to feel that we had a voice, not just as the character but as part of the family that created the show. It changed me, certainly.

It was my dad who encouraged me to come into films.

I was a kid with a lot of dreams. And my parents encouraged me in every possible way.

My dad's helped me a lot as a player, encouraged me in all the right ways, kept me focussing on the right lines.