I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kidding.
The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.
It's the boring things that mean a lot to me. I enjoy taking my sisters to eat. Or sitting watching TV with my family.
We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.
I'd always lived with people - my family, or had people living with me, because I'd never liked being on my own.
I love Decatur. It is diverse, politically progressive, family oriented and I can walk everywhere.
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.
I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.
I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.
It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.
My fantasy is, if I wasn't on 'Dexter,' I would move my family to London and work for the BBC on 'Doctor Who.'
My family is part Creole, and we're Indian, and we're also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.
Cancer affects so many people, and even if it hasn't affected someone in your family then you know someone who has had it.
I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.
My family are too grounded, and I will go home to visit. I always need my dose of Liverpool to keep me grounded.
Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.
Every film may not be appropriate for a theatrical release, and the theatrical business is not a very good business for anybody except the distributor.
A lot of people in the movie business don't have a point of reference for me; nobody really knows who I am.