Quotes On Family

My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive—the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me.

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it.

I'm in a happy relationship, me and my ex are on really good terms, my kid and I are in a good spot.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.