My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that.
My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz.
If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that have driven me, and the confidence to believe in myself.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.
My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed.
I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.
My parents said to us, practically on a daily basis, that we were as good as anyone else on this earth, and that we would simply have to work harder in order to show that.
I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can.
Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'
When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more.
My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.
My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.
I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.
My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.
Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.
My foster parents were very religious. They told me that they had not decided to take me in, rather that it was God that had decided it for them.
Just the simple act of sharing wisdom is something that many parents have left to society to do; however, that is not what God teaches in His word.
Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
