That's just my family's mentality. We are a very loving, hugging and kissing kind of family. And we grew up in a church atmosphere and still have that atmosphere. There is no negativity.
I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my 'mama' adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was real...
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.
I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.
We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
I grew up in a Navy family.
I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph.
You know, we're a tight family. I live right down the street from my folks. I talk to my mother every day. I'm a momma's boy. We all are. So there's no exclusion in this family. You're part of it. We embrace you and lift you up.
We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.
This is one of the benefits, as well as one of the difficulties of directing a member of your family. You know where the buttons are. You can push them if you want.
Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.
When my children were growing up, we began every family meal - which included breakfast and dinner every day - with a prayer. We are Jewish and so it was the prayer over bread, when we were having bread, or the catch-all prayer for everything when we...
Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
I don't think anyone has a normal family.
I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.
Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.
I'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I've been surrounded by people who are so good at it. Mum's brilliant. Boyfriends have always been good at it. I'm waiting for my inner chef to be released.
People think of me as a privileged young girl born to wear a chiffon party dress. I was born into a big acting family, and although I absolutely adore them, it's taken me time to work out how or where I feel comfortable.
'Billy Elliot' prides itself on being a family show, and it made sense to specifically cater to a family audience with an earlier evening curtain time.
I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
