For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.

A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.

By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.

Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three.

Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character. Once I got into that, and we delved into what it would be like to survive cancer and the ability to see how precious life is, it became easier to play her.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.

When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.

I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.