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!
When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?
I didn't have the drive; I never wanted to be in show business. I went into my father's business because of osmosis.
Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business. He loved it so much.
I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.
Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.
