Family Quotes

I have a ton of cousins on my mom's side of the family, and we would put on shows together all the time and put on costumes, and we even charged our parents money.

Maulik Pancholy

American actor

For centuries, the arts and philanthropists have worked well together: look at the Tate family and the Courtaulds. If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back.

Lloyd Dorfman

British entrepreneur

I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.

Julie Walters

Actress

I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

Ed Harris

I text a lot people, because it's how I stay connected with all my family and friends when I'm on set and traveling.

Ashley Tisdale

American actress

My family was not Republicans. I'm the youngest. I came to this party based upon choice.

Kevin Mccarthy

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

Louis De Bernieres

English novelist

I love my family, but I don't think they think about my career a lot or nuffin.

Kelly Brook

English model, actress, and media personality

I get really tense during the first draft. Really tense. That's not great for my family, because the first draft usually takes about a year.

Gillian Flynn

American author

I love smoothies, and the Nutribullet makes it so easy to make sure I get my nutrients in the morning before a busy day filming, hanging out with my family, or exercising.

Dorit Kemsley

American fashion designer

I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who they are.

Jennifer Ellison

English actress

My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'

Gayle King

American TV personality

I've seen so many kids walking to school with these massive high energy drinks, and they are nine or 10. I'm like, 'What?' It was a treat for me. It is still a treat for my family.

Paul Hollywood

Celebrity chef

What I'd love to do would be to bring a person from the past to me. In that case I'd pick Jane Austen, because I'd like to know what really made her tick. It's my opinion that she was inhibited by her family and a desire to do the right thing. Away from all that, I believe she'd show new facets and enjoy the adventure.

Jo Beverley

Canadian writer

To say that a family is happy I think is to diminish it, taking out what is interesting. Growing up, I don't think my family was any happier or unhappier than anyone else's. My mother and father should have been divorced or never even married. On the other hand, I remember many moments of happiness.

Per Petterson

Norwegian novelist

I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!

Jerry O'connell

American actor

For me, the only thing that mattered was getting married in the presence of my family and very close friends. We did not want a big fat wedding.

Ishita Dutta

Indian actress

Some of the things that have been the most meaningful to me have been experiences I've shared with my family.

Kathleen Battle

American operatic soprano

As I got older, I realised that people saw me as other things - sometimes Korean, sometimes Japanese, sometimes just Asian. When my family moved to a more affluent white neighbourhood, I started to see myself as 'other', this amorphous category. I didn't even know what 'not other' was, but I knew I wasn't it; I wasn't what was normal.

Jenny Zhang

American writer, poet, and prolific essayist

Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.

Bill Toomey

olympic athlete

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