I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself. – Tyler, The Creator
ABC’s intelligently hilarious sitcom ‘Modern Family’ depicts a gay-male marriage in which both partners are refreshingly dimensional, believable human beings. The writers dare to make them flawed and thus fully delineated, but they’re not flawed in the silly, stereotypical ways that once dominated such portrayals. – Tom Shales
Whenever I hear someone describe something as a ‘kids movie’ or a ‘family movie,’ it immediately has a negative connotation in my mind because I think, ‘Well, as an adult, I wouldn’t go see it by myself, because it’s purely for children and it holds nothing for me and it’s simplistic and it’s kind of easy.’ – Steve Carell
ABC Family is ready to get a new image for themselves, and I think ‘Greek’ really kind of started that change. – Scott Michael Foster
I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it’s funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid. – Sophia Bush
My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for ‘family home evening,’ and I was like, ‘Why aren’t you people ignoring each other and watching television?’ – Trey Parker
I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son. – Vikram Patel
My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family. – Tagg Romney
Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I’m looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs. – Samantha Stosur
In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I’m thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I’ve come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes. – Zadie Smith
I certainly never get above my station – my family would soon slap me back down to earth. – Sheridan Smith
It’s important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn’t revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have. – Vanessa Hudgens
My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family. – Sam Huntington
When I did ‘Tokyo Drift,’ a lot of the philosophy that Han lived by I have actually gone through in my own life. As I got older, I realized that I really believe in those philosophies, like the importance of family. – Sung Kang
Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity. – William Hague
I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker’s family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens. – Vladimir Putin
My family was entirely political, all the time, on the left. The opposite of that is not to be political on the right. It’s trying not to be – politics is not everything. There’s life other than politics. Politics intrudes. – Whit Stillman
When something’s got to give, family always wins. I couldn’t live with myself if it was the other way. – Tracy Pollan
I quit ‘Magnum’ to have a family. It took a long time to get off the train, but I try very hard to have balance, and this ranch has helped me do that. – Tom Selleck
I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody in my family sang, always lots of records, blues and jazz and soul, R&B, you know, like Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Coltrane, that kind of thing. – Tracy Chapman
Why wasn’t Michelle Obama, on October 1st, at the computer with her family signing up for Obamacare, or Jay Carney? They have their own gold-plated health care plan. – Sean Duffy
You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin’ kidney! – Sarah Hyland
I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars – BMW’s mostly – for myself and my family. – Tom Felton
There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street. – Willie Stargell
On a personal level, I think the political situation in Sri Lanka is very much on the mind of Sri Lankans in Canada. They have family here and family back home, and it’s possible they’ve lost members in any one of those tremendous, unbearable events there. – Shyam Selvadurai
You will always come across people who will put you down, but I am fortunate that my family are very uplifting and support me. I always know that at the end of the day I can go to them, and they will help me out. – Sofia Richie
