Quotes About Perspective

Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager.

I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

I've got a great family and great people around me that would be able to kick me in the shins if I ever for one minute got lost up in the clouds. I've been really lucky in that sense.

The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.

Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.

Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.

I'm an only child. My mum and dad are six in each family. They're both twins, and they only wanted one. I always say to them though that they're lucky - it could have all gone wrong.

Brad Pitt is older than Archie Bunker was in the first two seasons of All In The Family.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

My family were staunch believers in physical violence, not automatic violence, and we had a Safeway around the corner, so we never really needed to kill anything.

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

What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.

My wife comes from a foodie family so I've been indoctrinated into that. I had sweetbreads the other night, and I have to say, not my favorite thing in the world You're eating a gland.

Here's the weird thing about the Murdoch family; They believe what they read in the papers.

I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

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

My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.

And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.

Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.

Fatherhood is a joy. I feel very lucky to have a family. It gives you a perspective on things.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.