Quote Tag

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.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

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.

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.

You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people’s weirdness in that way.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.