Both My Parents Quotes

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It’s a rhythm thing – people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they’re both very creative.

It’s funny because I’ve resisted acting as a career for most of my life. But both my parents told me if I ever want to direct, I should act first because no director should direct until they know what it’s like to be in the actor’s shoes.

The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

Both my parents were professional actors, so I grew up in a household that had no real financial stability.

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a very vibrant discourse about politics and everything that was going on in the world where I grew up. So I was genetically predisposed to go into the performing arts.

In eighth grade, I went to home school, but it was a program meant for stay-at-home moms, and both my parents worked, so I had to grade my own papers. I’d be like, ‘Ah man, you’re close enough, you get 100 percent!’

Both my parents were huge stars. I would never have attempted to become as big of stars as they were because they lived in a different era.

Both my parents are Nigerian, but my mother worked internationally so when she travelled so did the kids.

I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had left school at a very young age, unwillingly in my father’s case. Yet both had deep effects on my education, my father influencing me toward measurement and mathematics, and my mother toward writing and history.

I grew up in a funeral home. Both my parents were morticians.

Both my parents developed dementia in their old age. Everyone I know whose parents had dementia feel that they didn’t deal with it very well.

Both my parents’ brothers are into active politics and so was my grandfather.

If you did something, and it wasn’t right, you definitely found out about it. And they were pretty smart people, both my parents, so you didn’t get too much by them.

My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.

Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.