Who I am at the core and what I think represents me is really reflected in my family.
I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.
I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.
Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
I'm sort of getting into the idea of nourishing your inner aspect and doing that by investing in your family and making a meal and creating time together.
There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.
We've all been affected by divorce in one way or another, whether we've experienced it personally, or witnessed family or friends go through it.
On the male side of my family, cancer has been very insidious, and so I'm just attempting to live a lifestyle that doesn't follow in their footsteps.
Thirty percent of Americans have German blood in their family. I don't see any major difference in the engineering abilities of Americans and Germans.
People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.
Most of the musical film work that I have done has been in this realm of what I think of as real family entertainment.
I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who they are.
The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model.
I'm the only one in my family - I'm a practicing Jew - who has attached themselves to religion in a more traditional way.
At first, there was a separation of clubs and sketch comedy. Now there's all kinds of comedy, making us one big happy family.
I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.
And, of course, all of my friends and family are so excited because they feel like Montreal is being represented on Mad Men.
It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself.
