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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

My mother couldn’t have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that’s 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.

I envy children who know that they’re going to become doctors, know they’re going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that’s what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me.

My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

I don’t blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.