Annie Lee Smith was my mother's name. My father's name was George Washington Smith. I have to tell you, I got all of my attributes from them, obviously, the tangibles, the intangibles. Particularly my work ethic, my dedication.
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My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ... JULIAN FELLOWES My first name is a boy's name. It's Tanner. I've always gone by my middle name but, yeah... ELLE KING My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-f... NATASHA TRETHEWEY You've got to know how to hustle. I got a lot of inspiration from my parents. My father was defi... JAY PHAROAH It's Smith, actually.' Dr Smith smiled, bowing. 'I've remembered that my name is Smith. Almost defin... JAMES GOSS My whole life had split in two: Smith and not Smith. I liked the Smith parts of it so much better. SARRA MANNING David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to cha... DAVID NICHOLLS My biological dad was Armenian. My last name is Lopez, and I have a darker complexion, which throws ... SETH ROLLINS My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats... YANCY BUTLER I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. SEAMUS HEANEY A lot of people don't realize this, but probably the one person that gets made fun of in 'So... TREY PARKER I have my name Cory on my left arm, and I have my mom's name on my right with a cross. She passe... CORY HARDRICT Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice. ERNEST THOMPSON SETON I wanna chase down Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith. I would love to start my film career. SHEMAR MOORE If you're not getting work, make your own work. I think that's a good mentality. I suppose I... SOPHIE KENNEDY CLARK I met Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I'm not really star struck by actors, but musicia... CHRISTOPHER MINTZ-PLASSE My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from... KADEE STRICKLAND My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat... SIDNEY POITIER My family came to Newark in the '20s. We've been there a long, long time. My father's na... AMIRI BARAKA I'll tell ya this: I come from an educated family. My father was an attorney representing blue c... JOE PISCOPO My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his ... MALCOLM X My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. SIMON VAN DER MEER When I was fifteen, I got a Tiffany's necklace from the producers of 'Game of Thrones' w... SOPHIE TURNER Oh, I laugh hard every day. I mean, my husband is Will Smith! I'm telling you, that's one of... JADA PINKETT SMITH As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial ... JACKIE CHAN I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it make... THERESA MAY teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li... MY TEACHER My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at ... LINDSAY FOX I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my... BARBRA STREISAND I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched ... T. BOONE PICKENS My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa... DICHEN LACHMAN I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the be... INARA GEORGE I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother&... JESSICA HAGEDORN In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from ... PATSY CLINE Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name... JOHN EISENHOWER My favourite movie right now is probably 'Hitch', a Will Smith thing. CHRIS MONEYMAKER I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Wil... WILLEM DAFOE I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things. STANA KATIC I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name. PAULA POUNDSTONE I didn't particularly change my name to Fonda because I knew who Fondas were. It's still goi... OLGA FONDA Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's dis... CORETTA SCOTT KING My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself ch... علی شریعتی ALI SHARIATI علي شريعتي My mum's maiden name was Dalglish, so I have Scottish blood in me. ROSE LESLIE My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well... RICHIE HAVENS From that moment on my relationship with Smith became very frosty, MICHAEL VAUGHAN My parents wanted to name me Karim Hill. My aunt always liked the name Dule, from this actor Keir Du... DULE HILL On the Internet, on IMDB, they've got that my middle name as Archibald. I don't have a middl... BILL PAXTON My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It d... HOLLY MARIE COMBS One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly g... ANDRE DUBUS III Maluma comes from my mom, my dad and my sister's names. The first letters of my mom's name a... MALUMA I met my husband, Will Smith, when I was 19 and auditioned to be his date on 'The Fresh Prince o... JADA PINKETT SMITH Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South A... WILBUR SMITH Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Ji... BENMONT TENCH I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother i... GEORGE ZIMMERMAN My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband... ORLANDO BLOOM I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brake... MICKEY ROONEY It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My s... M.I.A. I got my ears pierced when I was 12. I looked up to my older cousin, and he had earrings. Will Smith... SHAMEIK MOORE My father's family can be traced back to 1400. I've been told by gypsies that there is unmis... CHRISTOPHER LEE It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not m... JOSEPH P. KENNEDY III You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reag... MICHAEL REAGAN I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer ther... CHANTAL AKERMAN My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just b... WAKA FLOCKA FLAME Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, unti... LEO FITZPATRICK I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I... BRUCE STERLING I just remember Bruce Lee blowing my mind on the screen, and I thought to myself, 'That's wh... SCOTT ADKINS My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was 'Caroselli... STEVE CARELL My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was you... DONNIE YEN Race, class, childhood experience, the books I found on my mother's bookshelf, the albums I foun... RASHID JOHNSON Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last ... ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was plante... ROWAN ATKINSON I kept traveling down the road. And everywhere it was the same. What was my name, who were my people... KIMBERLY BRUBAKER BRADLEY Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson'... SASHA ALEXANDER I think Shep Smith is probably the premier anchor/journalist of my generation. He's terrific, an... DAVID SHUSTER As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie S... TOM FELTON I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH I am a father. My son's name is Max and my daughter's name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago... JOHN C. MCGINLEY One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known or... IAN FLEMING My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films. CELINA JADE I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in S... TAIYE SELASI My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churc... MICKEY SPILLANE I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became busines... MAKSIM CHMERKOVSKIY Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcol... DR. JOHN My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around... QUEEN LATIFAH I have one. I may get another during the off-season, I might get my son's name but I'm not s... ADAM PALLY Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my mi... TORI AMOS My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, ... MACKENZIE PHILLIPS My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an... STEPHEN PAGLIUCA Will Smith is one of my favorite actors, and he's also a triple threat. He successfully crossed ... KAT GRAHAM I love my life. I can't believe I work in New York and Paris. That I work for Louis Vuitton. Tha... MARC JACOBS I guess my name was gonna be Michael Vernon Wells, and I came out, and my dad saw my nose. He always... VERNON WELLS
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BRUCE JENNER I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to min... BRUCE LEE Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the funct... BRUCE LEE Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against. BRUCE LEE Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day. BRUCE JENNER I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you... BRUCE JENNER You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world. BRUCE LEE I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'Wh... LENNY BRUCE The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Lik... BRUCE LEE Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to sa... LENNY BRUCE Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to thin... BRUCE BARTON When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful o... BRUCE BARTON If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your t... BRUCE JENNER If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. BRUCE BARTON The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance... LENNY BRUCE The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere ... BRUCE BABBIT I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ... BRUCE STERLING All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without diseas... LENNY BRUCE The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. LENNY BRUCE No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one va... BRUCE BARTON Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity tha... BRUCE BARTON As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words eve... BRUCE BARTON What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will no... BRUCE BARTON Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. BRUCE BARTON The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them. LENNY BRUCE In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls. LENNY BRUCE The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than ... BRUCE BARTON We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wi... BRUCE BARTON