Quotes about Family

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

I owe everything to my fans. They were the ones who cheered for me, and they were the ones who gave me the means to provide for my kids.

My mother's last name, maiden name is Hogue. She is Cherokee and African. My grandfather, Dave Hogue, owned 300 acres of land in Marion, Alabama. He was an entrepreneur and someone I looked up to as a kid a lot.

My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long.

It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.

I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.

As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

I have 'Parents' magazine in my home.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always.