My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the thin...
Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.
My mom and my dad are ebullient people, and I think I carry that with me.
Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. And they were all from different litters. It wasn't like they were bred. They were all from different people. And they were all different ages. When I ...
And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all.
When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.
I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.
Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.
My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.
My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.
I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.
My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.
My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.
My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.
My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.
My dad's a jeweller, and my mom works for a bank.
I was raised - my mom and dad were dairy farmers. Once you've made a decision to plant a crop for that year, you can't go back and undo that decision.
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.
My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid.
