Quotes About Upbringing

I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.

My mom wasn't a movie star.

You know, we weren't a Hollywood family. I didn't grow up in a home with screening rooms and my mother didn't behave like a movie star.

People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.

My parents were obsessed with us being normal kids, so I never knew movie stars. They didn't want us to be Hollywood brats.

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

Growing up, I was vaguely aware of things that went on in church, because I was in the boys' choir at the local Episcopal church. But I got the clear message that I was supposed to learn music there, and not pay too much attention to the rest of it, and I followed those instructions very carefully.

My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.

My dad's Jewish and my mum is Christian, so I grew up with no religion. Just whatever religion I wanted.

My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.

My father made sure of discipline, but my mum, she was serious business.

My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what was right or wrong - I knew. I was very mature from early on and I was a very good girl, so she never had any trouble with me.

My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures in my life, really. I had my godfather, but he's more like a grandfather, so I was quite sheltered. I've never tried to find my father.

My dad was a civil servant, and my mum was a secretary.

I grew up in the States and Canada for a while because my mum came over in the 1970s. We lived in Los Angeles for a couple of years and then moved to Canada for a few more.

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

I think I was brought up with an innate sense of responsibility because my dad was in the Foreign Office where you were in somebody else's country, and you were aware of your behaviour. And my mum worked for the NHS, so you were aware of your responsibility to your country.

My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers meals to old folk around where we live. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, but I had a very happy childhood.

My mum has always been quite free-spirited, and she has taught me a lot. I think that is probably why I have the sort of mind that I do.

For four years, my mum allowed only church music in the house.

My mum is a lovely woman, so strong but so kind and compassionate. She brought us up to be proud, loving and forgiving.

My mum was a librarian, and my dad worked in Greenland.