It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

There's actually 14 in our family, but we disowned the others.

I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out.

All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.

Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book.

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.

You've simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether they'll be there tomorrow, do you?

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.

I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy.