My wife Neelam is a North Indian, so she will make North Indian food, while my mother will make Bengali food.
I'm not really afraid of somebody who's very politically vocal. My mother is very strong, and I really believe in freedom of speech.
The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.
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.
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.
When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, my middle school friends and myself really had no idea the impact of that diagnosis, but my family did.
I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.
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.
I grew up in a family of strong women, and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister.
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.
There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.
Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.
In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!
I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'
There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother's advice. As a result, he was a better, wiser, and kinder man.
What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'
No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
