Quotes About Family

I don't sell millions of records. As a matter of fact, I'm not even interested in selling millions of records. I enjoy MCing. I make a decent amount of money. I can feed my kids. I keep a roof over my head. I don't have to sell a million records to maintain my lifestyle.

My responsibility is to feed my family. My responsibility is to support myself.

I've got a family to feed and I've got to work to feed them.

Sometimes I just think we get caught up in the entertainment aspect of this business and people kind of forget that this is the way we feed our families and this is our livelihoods.

When I was 13, we went back to Argentina to live for a year. I got to see my extended family - really see them: where they grew up, how they lived. It was a different kind of struggle. There is no money. There are no jobs. And they still have to find a way to feed their families.

We eat really well. It is my job, as their mother, our job as parents, to feed them well so that they're healthy so that they are very well behaved.

My son, Sanjay, and I discuss a lot of things. Like, he gives me feedback on my films and what his friends say at school.

The feedback for 'P.S. I Still Love You' has been pretty amazing. To have written this story about this family with Asian-American characters and be so embraced is really incredible for me as a writer as well as a person of color.

If my parents don't like something, they tell me on my face. You get real feedback from them.

My daughter criticizes me constructively. She gives me good and honest feedback.

Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.

My mum is your archetypal Asian mum, always feeding people. If there was no food in the cupboard, she'd still manage to rustle up a feast - Bangladeshi food such as pilau rice, curry and korma.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?

I get a lot of emotion from my family and my friends. I think it's just communicated in a different way. When my family feeds me, they're saying they love me. They pick me apart to show that they care. One look from my mother says so much.

I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.

Rahul's my elder brother and I feel good to have someone in the industry who has helped me out.

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.

Listen to me carefully: My father wasn't in my life, but it feels good taking care of my kids.

Every filmmaker has a family to feed. They have children whose college fees need to be paid.

I don't want to get burned when I'm cooking. To avoid getting hit when pan-frying, I stand far away and use chopsticks that are almost two feet long. I learned it from my mom, who does the same thing.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.