I grew up in Southern Oregon. My father was a sawmill worker and a logger, and his job put food on the table.
The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.
Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government.
My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.
My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.
My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family members are firefighters.
I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.
People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, 'If it happened to my father, it could happen to me.'
Family was real important in putting me on my path. I'm so blessed to come from a home with a mother and a father.
I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.
I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.
My family is part Creole, and we're Indian, and we're also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.
My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.
I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.
My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.
I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.
I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.
My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.
I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!
Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers.
If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!
