Quotes About Family

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.

But the best revenge for naysayers is living well. And living well is doing your job and taking care of your family.

As much as my kids keep me young, they also have the reverse effect when I don't have the energy.

The questions I want to ask will revolve around humans, connection, relationships, family, and stories - what are the stories we tell ourselves and each other?

Everything I do revolves around my children.

To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

My father would make me stand on the table and make me sing. He would give me a P1 reward after every song.

As we all know, there is no harder or more rewarding job than being a mom.

When my son was born, I was still playing in a summer league in Rhode Island.

We didn't grow up rich people.

The two things that I wanted in my life were to have a movie career and to be married, to have a family. And it's an embarrassment of riches that I've got both.

I was lucky to grow up in a family where your parents loved you no matter what you were or what you came out as, and a lot of kids don't have that ride.

But I've been blessed to have some great opportunities and have a great family that comes along for the ride.

There wasn't really anything I wanted to do other than acting, which is ridiculous because there were no actors in my family, and we didn't know anything about acting.

This sounds ridiculous, but my political inspiration is not Marx or Engels or ­anything like that. It was my mum.

In 2010, my kids came home telling these ridiculous stories about me they heard from school. I realized my kids didn't know my story, and they were hearing it from the goofballs at school.

I told my parents I wanted an agent, and they decided to let me have a go at it. Then I started working right away. I was 12.

I'm happy being at City. I wanted to go to Porto before but my father said that coming here we would have a great future. It was the right decision.

The person who I have my child with is going to be the right person.

I always wanted kids but I always thought I'd have kids later on in my life, maybe when I turn 30. I really wanted to focus on my career, but you meet the right person and your whole world changes.

I have said to myself that if I don't find the right person, I think I would probably adopt on my own, because I think I would be a great dad.

Maybe I see myself with kids, given the right place and right moment, with the right person.

I want to be the kind of actress where, if I'm in the press, I'm in for the right reasons - for my work. To be in the press about family drama is kind of embarrassing.

My family has always said... if you're going to get into politics, do it for the right reasons, not because you've got to carry on something.