Quotes About Family

I explained to my kids at an early age: I'm a normal dad with an abnormal job.

When I took my kids to see the house that we're buying I took them in the car to the estate I grew up on. I got the kids out of the car and explained that this is where they're from.

Having parents who are chicken sexers - I had trouble explaining that to kids at school!

Becoming a father is incredible. There is no explanation for the feeling.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

Just based on my own family and background, I would not be in a film that would exploit or sensationalize anyone.

We have five children whom I love dearly and have exploited mercilessly for my cartoons.

I wanted to explore Korean-American characters. And 'Columbus' did address that. The father-son dynamic felt very real to me.

Several members of my family have, or have had, one form of dementia or another. I really wanted to explore what it might like in fiction, but I didn't know how to start.

I am proud of whatever my parents have achieved. In fact, it drives me to excel in life, to perform even better and explore myself.

When I was a kid, I remember my parents would say, 'Baseball is what you do, but that's not who you are' - like that might be my job, but that's not the end-all, be-all. I feel like I might even be able to use it to help other people or open some doors or explore more opportunities.

'Mudbound,' you know, is about home. 'Mudbound' is about what it means to be a citizen, and 'Mudbound,' in fact, is set in this post-reconstruction era that we haven't really explored. You know, not since 'Sounder' have we even really explored that experience.

We're seeing this disintegration of the family movie into these blockbuster things that kids should not be exposed to with explosions, carnage and violence.

We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.

I grew up one of three girls, and none of them were into comic books, so I wasn't exposed to that world.

My parents were involved in the record industry, so I was exposed to the arts very early.

When I was born, mom wasn't doing films at all, so I was never exposed that much to the world of acting.

My father filmed me all the time as a kid, and that's how I was first exposed to a camera.

I didn't have the exposure. I didn't see gay people or hear about them. My family didn't know any. It wasn't something I thought was reality.

The bond that a father and daughter share can't be expressed in words.

The fact we got to become a part of the Marvel family and find our own expression within that is a real joy for my brother and I.

I was very lucky, my parents were very encouraging, and both my grandmothers. They had exquisite taste.

Tell me, who doesn't want to have a family to extend himself/herself?

I think, for me, since I've always had a busy lifestyle, I try to take out a little time for me and exercise and do things that are good for me, because if I'm not good, then I can't extend that out to my family.