One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
So I would dance and she would sing, and it was kind of a family thing. Performing was part of our world.
And maybe that's being the third child, although my entire family are very resilient - very, very resilient.
You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.
I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.
For an incumbent like a president, who's been in the news every day, their family, they're well known.
A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.
I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.
Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.
Even though we were all celebrities to a certain extent, we all looked at each other as family.
We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.
Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.
I have family in Italy that my mother keeps in contact with, but I don't because I don't speak Italian.
Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.
I grew up on a set and saw my family doing it and thought, 'I can do that too.'
In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family.
I'm not really volunteering for no family films. I really like the sweet spot of being able to be edgy and controversial.
I don't know what it feels like not to have a great family support system - I was lucky to have that.
I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.
If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.
