My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman.

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.

I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.

My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.