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CASSIE VENTURA Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
TONY CURTIS I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the be...
INARA GEORGE My grandma was actually a pretty well-known opera singer in Cuba, and then my mom was a ballerina. T...
FRANKIE J. ALVAREZ The only other home I can enter without an invitation, is my parents home.
BEN OAK My mom was a singer in Chicago and still is a cabaret singer, and she was very theatrical. And my da...
HAYES MACARTHUR
My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.&#... ALBERT BROOKS My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel...
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TY SEGALL
I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and lea... LEONORA CARRINGTON
I began by listening to my mother's collection of Amelita Galli-Curci and Lily Pons records, and... BEVERLY SILLS I'll tell ya this: I come from an educated family. My father was an attorney representing blue c...
JOE PISCOPO
It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Pe... ELIZABETH GILBERT I had an imaginary friend. I don't know when I stopped having an imaginary friend, but my mom an...
CC SABATHIA My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a b...
BRETT DALTON
My parents are both English. My dad is a plastic surgeon - his name's Norman Waterhouse, but we ... SUKI WATERHOUSE
Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or... CAMRYN MANHEIM When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much ...
CANDIS CAYNE
We lived above my father's launderette. Both my parents ran the launderette, but my father was a... SANJEEV BHASKAR What's odd is that nobody in my family is an artist. My cousins are, like, secretaries at law fi...
MELONIE DIAZ My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but ...
ATO ESSANDOH
I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't... J. D. SOUTHER
My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continu... CHARLES BUKOWSKI As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerb...
BRIAN J. WHITE
I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't... TAYLOR SPREITLER I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sci...
JACOB EPSTEIN It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietna...
VANESSA KERRY
My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King... GLORIA ESTEFAN Both my parents are professors, and I never really saw people do any other jobs, so I didn't rea...
ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN
Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or... CAMRYN MANHEIM I was just being obedient to what my parents saw in me. I was more interested in the things the wome...
GLADYS KNIGHT
My dad was a copywriter on Madison Avenue at the same time as the TV show 'Mad Men' is set. ... PETER HELLER
I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom. SUSIE BRIGHT My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boy...
BRIDGET MOYNAHAN
I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was... J. D. SOUTHER I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.
BARRY STERNLICHT I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.
BRUCE COCKBURN
My house has always been like everyone's house. You walk in, you're a part of the family, no... VINNY GUADAGNINO My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.&#...
LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibiti...
BAR PALY In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.
EDI RAMA
My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist. ALEX GREY I've danced hula since I was 5. My mom danced hula as well. It's been in my family from far ...
AULI'I CRAVALHO We talked with other labels, but Universal Motown was really interested in my growth as an artist. T...
CAMILE VELASCO
My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music... RUBY ROSE I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, ...
CAT POWER I come from a duo, actually, quite literally. My parents are Linda and Eddie, and they had an act in...
JENNY LEWIS
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle... DAVID CASSIDY Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's...
GARRET DILLAHUNT Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family a...
CALLUM KEITH RENNIE My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmot...
CLARE BOWEN
My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad... DAN GABLE
Maluma comes from my mom, my dad and my sister's names. The first letters of my mom's name a... MALUMA
My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family member... BRAD PAISLEY
Karaoke was my family's happy secret. In those early years in America, like many immigrants, my ... JENNY ZHANG
My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical ske... MONTEL WILLIAMS My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was i...
ELOISE MUMFORD
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m... MARIA CALLAS People close to me called me 'Curry in a Hurry.' I was moving through life at 100 miles an h...
ANN CURRY
That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my fat... VANESSA HUDGENS I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would...
LESLEY MANVILLE
I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do... AUDREY HEPBURN My parents met in the theatre, and I thought that was so romantic. My dad was a scenic designer and ...
SKYE MCCOLE BARTUSIAK
I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My famil... A. R. RAHMAN
I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In... ALAN BENNETT My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas!
KELLI O'HARA My brother is the lead singer of The Torn, and my parents are in a country duo.
SHERIDAN SMITH
People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nic... JIM VALVANO For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because ...
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL
I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other. ADAM CAROLLA Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearin...
JAMES NESBITT
My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the fa... BILL DE BLASIO
My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on alrea... DIKEMBE MUTOMBO I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really ...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My care...
BILL NUNN
My mom had beautiful clothes. My mom is elegant; my mom is glamorous. But my mom is also really real... TRACEE ELLIS ROSS
I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accep... YUNA
Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks i... STEVE BUSCEMI
Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an ... SISSY SPACEK My dad would moonlight back then, ... He'd worked his way through college in a band before he became...
BOB SCHNEIDER I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was going...
ADAN CANTO I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not ...
KATHLEEN BATTLE I've been fascinated with severe weather since I was four, when I saw a tornado at night in my m...
JENNA BLUM My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a ...
IAN GOMEZ I grew up in a bus, traveled with various circuses and freak shows. I was a trapeze artist, and that...
NEON HITCH
It was the late '70s when my parents met. My dad was a lighting director for a soap opera, and m... MEGHAN MARKLE I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - ...
JILL SOLOWAY My first name is a boy's name. It's Tanner. I've always gone by my middle name but, yeah...
ELLE KING It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it&...
WILLA FITZGERALD
I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English tea... TONY DUNGY My parents weren't very sporty, and football wasn't part of my everyday life. I was never a ...
STANISLAS WAWRINKA I couldn't write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward's an ido...
JOHN LOGAN teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li...
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