My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family. 689
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry. 609
I’m thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are. 828
The Rooneys are very classy. They’re very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you’re part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don’t have a lot of rambunctious players running around. 2.4K
I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it. 656
My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence. 2.35K
It all starts with the script: it’s not worth taking myself away from my family if I don’t have something I’m really passionate about. 2.38K
Leave the President’s family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help. 642
Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that’s something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don’t want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them. 561
If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters. 1.38K
When I did ‘E.T.,’ it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of ‘This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I’m going to survive.’ 791
I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I’m in an office with them. So in a weird way – I know I haven’t birthed a child – I feel that I’m a part of creating a family. It’s a tribe. I love that word. 649
Being a Barrymore didn’t help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me. 679
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. 659
