Quotes About Upbringing

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer, and my mom's a director and writer. Even when I was young, I wanted to be an actress.

Mom was a very creative and artistic person and papa is a producer. I've grown up in an extremely colourful environment at home and I haven't been exposed to anything else.

I was pampered by all my father's directors and producers during childhood. But at home, my father made sure I led a normal life.

Kids are a product of their environment.

I believe we are more a product of our homes than of any other single influence.

Everyone is a product of their own environment, and that, I think, has actually been the key lesson for me.

I have been lucky enough to inherit the patient, loving and nurturing side from my mother, and the organizational and productive side from my dad.

When I was growing up, my father never got his profession to the house. We didn't discuss films on the dining table.

I grew up around food and in a restaurant, so it never dawned on me that this was a thing to do; it just was. Then I found it as a profession in my mid-twenties after years of bad decisions and depression. The first step was going to the bookstore and learning about this craft. Then applying in kitchens and just getting to work.

I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

Both my parents are actors, in very different ways.

My father always kept me in a very different world, a very simple world.

I've made a career out of being able to talk about difficult things, and that comes from growing up in an environment where nothing was embarrassing.

There were definitely difficult times growing up, but it was always generally OK.

In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine?

I grew up on a dirt road with brothers.

I grew up in Gladstone, Alabama, on a dirt road, with an outside bathroom.

I grew up in small-town America, black, disadvantaged.

I have so much respect for when my parents did. They did not raise me talking about money and I would have disappointed them if I went to China.

When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.

It is very difficult when you grow up without a father because you don't have a man who can give you direction and discipline.

A boy needs a male figure, and the girls do, too. Somebody to discipline them and make them be a man.

We see the worth and appreciate the discipline my father inculcated in us.

My father gave me discipline.