My family and I are so close, it's important to have a close knit relationship and to make time to spend with each other, especially at the holidays.
My family is Anglo-Indian, and of the four children, I'm the only one who wasn't born in India.
There wasn't anyone in my family who was involved in the theatre. I saw a few amateur plays when I was growing up, but I can't think of anything that happened or anybody in particular who inspired me; it all came from within.
Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
The Jewish community is all about love and family, which is the most important thing in my life, too.
I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.
My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen.
I guess I would be most grateful for my family and my friends and my dogs, my boyfriend. I'm grateful for a lot. I'm grateful to be healthy.
Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.
No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.
I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
In Positano, I like the San Pietro Hotel, which is run by a friend whose family has owned the hotel for more than 100 years.
Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.
I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.
Anything that has to do with Disney and Pixar, I am on board with. That is where my heart and family are. So when they call, I jump.
Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.
There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.
When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.
Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a laser beam on it. I never had a fallback plan.
But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me.
The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69.
