I was 10th of 11 kids in an alcoholic, abusive, poor family. We all want things that we can't have. And I found comedy.
Everybody wanted to make it. One guy makes it. In a family when one guy makes it... 'Hey ain't you going to help us out?'
I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.
My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.
I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.
I want all my friends, family and fans to know that I am in good spirits and I will be fine.
In 1970, television ate my family. The Andy Warhol prophecy of 15 minutes of fame for any and everyone blew up on our doorstep.
I've got two older sisters who I'm very close to. And my son's grown up with a big sense of family around him.
I want every Filipino woman empowered with information regarding all options available to her regarding family planning.
I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.
You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.
I write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.
I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There's not enough women like that on the screen.
I have a little baby. She knows who I am. My friends know. My family knows.
My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.
I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
I'm not really the one in my family who knows everything that's going on, because I don't really pay attention.
I kind of left everyone behind in Australia - all my friends and my family and I had to break up with my boyfriend.
I have a really supportive family, which is really wonderful, but I'm not forcing everyone to watch my work every week.
When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.
