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ROBERTO BENIGNI![]()
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, ...
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I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you'...
OMARI HARDWICK I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pen...
JEFF KINNEY My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful...
MARION COTILLARD My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he ...
MARK BILLINGHAM Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.
WILLIAM H. MACY My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dre...
RAM KAPOOR![]()
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle...
DAVID CASSIDY![]()
My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam...
FRANCESCA ANNIS My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people ...
RACHEL KUSHNER She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. The...
BILL GRIFFITH![]()
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband...
ORLANDO BLOOM My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
DOLORES HUERTA![]()
And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor...
RENE AUBERJONOIS![]()
My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried abou...
PAULA DANZIGER![]()
And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor...
RENE AUBERJONOIS![]()
My uncle was a second father to me. I spent most of my childhood with him.
REY MYSTERIO I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years ...
RAMON MAGSAYSAY![]()
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every...
JACK BLACK![]()
I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very c...
EZRA MILLER![]()
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m...
DONALD TRUMP My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is ...
LAURA BENANTI![]()
I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.
ELIA KAZAN As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming a...
EDDIE MARSAN![]()
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to...
PATTI SMITH![]()
My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an onl...
ACTION BRONSON My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE![]()
I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock,...
LAURA DERN I was a mime. I'm not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, s...
KERRY BISHE The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
DEFOREST KELLEY![]()
Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family wor...
BERNARD ARNAULT![]()
My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn...
JONI MITCHELL![]()
When I was very young, my father had an accident. He fell down a flight of stairs, fractured his sku...
JANET YELLEN But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic ...
PHILIP K. DICK![]()
I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
MAURICE SENDAK![]()
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat...
JOAN LINGARD I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.
GERALDINE MCCAUGHREAN My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of m...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT![]()
I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all a...
BRIGITTE BARDOT![]()
It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on ...
ANDY SERKIS I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative...
ED BEGLEY, JR.![]()
I had a Jewish grandfather. We managed to hide this fact from the authorities by falsifying document...
HELMUT SCHMIDT I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed l...
RIK MAYALL![]()
The life of Edward Estlin Cummings began with a childhood in Cambridge, Mass., that he described as ...
BILLY COLLINS![]()
My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in Wor...
ARLEN SPECTER My father was an eminent button-maker at Birmingham, . . . but I had a soul above buttons.
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER")![]()
I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.
I. M. PEI![]()
Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive an...
ANTHONY KIEDIS Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel tha...
MARTIN CLUNES I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
BILL GRIFFITH![]()
[Marley has an easy confidence and claims his] childhood made me strong ... I know my father - throu...
BOB MARLEY I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afrai...
PATRICK STEWART![]()
My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father ca...
JHUMPA LAHIRI My parents had a difficult divorce. My dad had to take a backseat for a few years, and my grandfathe...
CHRISTIAN CAMARGO![]()
When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we wou...
BRIE LARSON I'm from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. M...
CASSIE VENTURA We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upb...
MAHESH BABU I always wanted to be an actor, so part of me is split between the artistic side and the physical si...
DAVE LEGENO![]()
My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an acto...
SHERRI SHEPHERD I eventually made the reunion with my father that I'd used as a default daydream throughout my c...
MONA SIMPSON I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ...
PAUL GIAMATTI![]()
I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I though...
CHIWETEL EJIOFOR My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very inter...
SHIRIN NESHAT I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy child...
LISA LUTZ![]()
I had convinced my father to let me pursue this career, and I passionately wanted it. And here was t...
GEORGE TAKEI My father was a very social person, and between the two of them, they had a worldwide collection of ...
DEBORAH TIBBITT![]()
I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a ver...
NATALIE BABBITT At a time when I had very little business being called an actor, he made things so easy for me. It w...
RICHARD ANDERSON![]()
At a time when I had very little business being called an actor, he made things so easy for me. It w...
RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents.
DAVID KEITH When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr...
SAM NEILL I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.
ALBERT GUBAY I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very l...
EMMA ALBANI My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a li...
MICHAEL HANEKE![]()
Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I...
ANN HOOD![]()
Personally, I have had sometimes moments where I thought my idea behind the idea of a collection - t...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS Having drive is a big part of success, along with integrity. You need to have a clear vision of what...
VONDA SHEPARD I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and...
VONDA SHEPARD Playing clubs is the ultimate - you see the faces; you hear the 'clicking' glasses - I love ...
VONDA SHEPARD I was born singing. My father tells this story about when I was 3 weeks old, how I would rock in the...
VONDA SHEPARD I could have become a mime or a juggler, but I became a singer-songwriter instead.
VONDA SHEPARD Ally McBeal walks down the streets crying, looking for the right man. I don't do that.
VONDA SHEPARD James Ralston, my guitar player, has performed with Tina Turner for about 22 years. Jim Hanson on ba...
VONDA SHEPARD I don't have much time for TV shows, but if I did, I'd watch 'Seinfeld' reruns.
VONDA SHEPARD My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had don...
BEN ELLIOT I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very...
CHARLES KIMBROUGH In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot o...
ELYN SAKS![]()
My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible ...
JONATHAN IVE I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, an...
CAROLYN BYERS RUCH![]()
I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and t...
JEREMY SISTO![]()
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
MAEVE BINCHY I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.
ZACHARY QUINTO![]()
I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror t...
LANCE GROSS When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
MAHESH BABU![]()
My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class...
NAEEM KHAN![]()
I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a...
AARON PAUL I had known that I'd wanted to be an actor from a very early age, but I had always known that I ...
BILLY BURKE
DENIS LAVANT
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very gratef... ROBERTO BENIGNI
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, ... ROBERTO BENIGNI
I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you'... OMARI HARDWICK I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pen...
JEFF KINNEY My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful...
MARION COTILLARD My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he ...
MARK BILLINGHAM Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.
WILLIAM H. MACY My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dre...
RAM KAPOOR
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle... DAVID CASSIDY
My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam... FRANCESCA ANNIS My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people ...
RACHEL KUSHNER She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. The...
BILL GRIFFITH
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband... ORLANDO BLOOM My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
DOLORES HUERTA
And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor... RENE AUBERJONOIS
My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried abou... PAULA DANZIGER
And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor... RENE AUBERJONOIS
My uncle was a second father to me. I spent most of my childhood with him. REY MYSTERIO I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years ...
RAMON MAGSAYSAY
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every... JACK BLACK
I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very c... EZRA MILLER
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is ...
LAURA BENANTI
I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist. ELIA KAZAN As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming a...
EDDIE MARSAN
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to... PATTI SMITH
My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an onl... ACTION BRONSON My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE
I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock,... LAURA DERN I was a mime. I'm not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, s...
KERRY BISHE The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
DEFOREST KELLEY
Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family wor... BERNARD ARNAULT
My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn... JONI MITCHELL
When I was very young, my father had an accident. He fell down a flight of stairs, fractured his sku... JANET YELLEN But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic ...
PHILIP K. DICK
I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable. MAURICE SENDAK
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.
GERALDINE MCCAUGHREAN My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of m...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT
I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all a... BRIGITTE BARDOT
It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on ... ANDY SERKIS I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative...
ED BEGLEY, JR.
I had a Jewish grandfather. We managed to hide this fact from the authorities by falsifying document... HELMUT SCHMIDT I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed l...
RIK MAYALL
The life of Edward Estlin Cummings began with a childhood in Cambridge, Mass., that he described as ... BILLY COLLINS
My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in Wor... ARLEN SPECTER My father was an eminent button-maker at Birmingham, . . . but I had a soul above buttons.
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER")
I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet. I. M. PEI
Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive an... ANTHONY KIEDIS Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel tha...
MARTIN CLUNES I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
BILL GRIFFITH
[Marley has an easy confidence and claims his] childhood made me strong ... I know my father - throu... BOB MARLEY I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afrai...
PATRICK STEWART
My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father ca... JHUMPA LAHIRI My parents had a difficult divorce. My dad had to take a backseat for a few years, and my grandfathe...
CHRISTIAN CAMARGO
When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we wou... BRIE LARSON I'm from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. M...
CASSIE VENTURA We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upb...
MAHESH BABU I always wanted to be an actor, so part of me is split between the artistic side and the physical si...
DAVE LEGENO
My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an acto... SHERRI SHEPHERD I eventually made the reunion with my father that I'd used as a default daydream throughout my c...
MONA SIMPSON I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ...
PAUL GIAMATTI
I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I though... CHIWETEL EJIOFOR My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very inter...
SHIRIN NESHAT I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy child...
LISA LUTZ
I had convinced my father to let me pursue this career, and I passionately wanted it. And here was t... GEORGE TAKEI My father was a very social person, and between the two of them, they had a worldwide collection of ...
DEBORAH TIBBITT
I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a ver... NATALIE BABBITT At a time when I had very little business being called an actor, he made things so easy for me. It w...
RICHARD ANDERSON
At a time when I had very little business being called an actor, he made things so easy for me. It w... RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents.
DAVID KEITH When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr...
SAM NEILL I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.
ALBERT GUBAY I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very l...
EMMA ALBANI My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a li...
MICHAEL HANEKE
Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I... ANN HOOD
Personally, I have had sometimes moments where I thought my idea behind the idea of a collection - t... OLIVIER THEYSKENS Having drive is a big part of success, along with integrity. You need to have a clear vision of what...
VONDA SHEPARD I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and...
VONDA SHEPARD Playing clubs is the ultimate - you see the faces; you hear the 'clicking' glasses - I love ...
VONDA SHEPARD I was born singing. My father tells this story about when I was 3 weeks old, how I would rock in the...
VONDA SHEPARD I could have become a mime or a juggler, but I became a singer-songwriter instead.
VONDA SHEPARD Ally McBeal walks down the streets crying, looking for the right man. I don't do that.
VONDA SHEPARD James Ralston, my guitar player, has performed with Tina Turner for about 22 years. Jim Hanson on ba...
VONDA SHEPARD I don't have much time for TV shows, but if I did, I'd watch 'Seinfeld' reruns.
VONDA SHEPARD My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had don...
BEN ELLIOT I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very...
CHARLES KIMBROUGH In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot o...
ELYN SAKS
My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible ... JONATHAN IVE I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, an...
CAROLYN BYERS RUCH
I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and t... JEREMY SISTO
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. MAEVE BINCHY I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.
ZACHARY QUINTO
I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror t... LANCE GROSS When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
MAHESH BABU
My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class... NAEEM KHAN
I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a... AARON PAUL I had known that I'd wanted to be an actor from a very early age, but I had always known that I ...
BILLY BURKE
When you walk down the street and see something in a crazy spot, there's something powerful abou... 
I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer. 
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