I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up - that nurture side.
When I chose to leave a career as a young lawyer in Washington to move to Arkansas to marry Bill and start a family, my friends asked, 'Are you out of your mind?'
I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.
If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.
The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.
I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.
The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.
A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.
I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz people. But going back was strange, and perhaps stranger for the other students.
We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
I didn't think I was going to be an actress. Everybody in my family was in films, and they succeeded so much, I thought, 'It's better for me to do something else,' and they agreed.
My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
I don't watch that much TV. I think I should probably watch a little bit more, but I love the ABC Family shows.
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
I have to say, creating memories is so important to me that I did a book about creating memories for your family.
I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.
I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.
A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.
People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.
