Quotes About Upbringing

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up - that nurture side.

Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets.

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.

I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.

We need to bring personal responsibility back to the family!

My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.

Irreverence ran on both sides of our family...my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.

I didn't have a very religious family.

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.

I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

I credit my mom Debbie for creating a solid family base, ... She gave me a strong sense of reality so I could avoid falling into the normal pitfalls of child actors.