I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.
I'm always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I'm a proud father.
I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.
I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.
I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.
My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!
My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.
I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.
As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.
Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.
More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.
More of 'The Bourne Identity's script was taken from the events of the Iran Contra, which my father investigated for the Senate, than what was taken from Robert Ludlum's novel.
I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company.
I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, 'I'm gay.' I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings.
Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.
My mother was an actress in comedies. My father wrote scenarios. They were not opposed to my being an actor. I really didn't know what it meant, but I wanted to be one anyway.
In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.
My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.
