I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.
I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.
I was born into a family of preachers.
When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.
I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.
But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the reporters. It's the system.
A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.
Even though we were all celebrities to a certain extent, we all looked at each other as family.
I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.
Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself.