I think that if you've got a great support system around you, and a great family, and a tight team around you, I think you don't get lost.
I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.
My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.
Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child.
I have a very, very good life. I'm grateful for all of my friends, my family and the life that I have, and the possibilities in my future.
My family keeps me pretty grounded. Like if I try anything diva, they're like, 'Oh shut up. Go and do the dishwasher.'
In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.
My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.
Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.
Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.
After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.
However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.
What I learned at Miramax is that if you see where extraordinary creative talent can be brought into the family, move quickly, because if you don't, someone else will.
I've always like roadracing, but you know how it is in a family when you're young. They thought it was a little too dangerous so I started with Trials riding.
At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.
The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.
I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.
I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.
I have these beautiful children and this extraordinary family, and to think in any way shape or form that that's wrong or that there's shame in that or that there's something to hide actually turns my stomach.
'Family Guy' has this weird thing of attracting people. People either hate it or can't get enough of it. There's really no one in between.
