As a child, I remember seeing what a struggle it was for both my parents to accommodate and adjust to the idea of not being together. They cared for each other deeply; they loved each other. They just couldn't stay together because they wanted different things from life and sometimes, it happens.

Dia Mirza

Time Love Life

Both my parents are wonderful cooks - my father looks like he has been in the kitchen his whole life.

Aditya Roy Kapur

Life Wonderful Wonder

I've lost both my parents and I don't think you ever get used to it.

Ainsley Harriott

You Used Use

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

Aleksa Palladino

Mom Life Family

Both my parents are Italian. My mom was born and raised in Italy. My dad was born in Canada, but then they moved to Italy.

Alessia Cara

Mom Then T

Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers and very booky.

Alexandra Adornetto

Teacher Writing Wit

Both my parents are professors, and I never really saw people do any other jobs, so I didn't really know how to want a different kind of job.

Alexandra Kleeman

Want T Saw

Both my parents are actors.

Alice Eve

T Rent Parents

My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill Broonzy, and there he was sitting in our living room playing, and blues was in my heart from the time I was 12 years old.

Alvin Lee

Time Home Art

Both my parents were atheists, and my grandmother was an atheist in rural Kentucky, and so they were trying to make sure that my brother and I would be atheists, too, and it worked, which doesn't mean that they didn't teach us a lot of wonder of science and of nature and the world and all of that.

Andrew Sean Greer

Work Science Nature

Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.

Andy Serkis

Car Art Wit

I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had left school at a very young age, unwillingly in my father's case. Yet both had deep effects on my education, my father influencing me toward measurement and mathematics, and my mother toward writing and history.

Angus Deaton

War Men History

I am from L.A., my siblings are from L.A., but both my parents are from Guatemala, and I have a lot of family members from Mexico.

Anthony Gonzalez

Family T Sibling

Both my parents are well educated; my father worked for the CBI before becoming a businessman, and my mother was a civil surgeon. But I did not want to be a doctor.

Asin

Work Business Worked

The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, lived with my grandmother, drama teacher twisted me into doing this TV thing that I thought my mates were doing, too.

Ben Mendelsohn

Teacher Age Young

No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

Bernard Lagat

You Thing Thin

I'm a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord - and how to surf!

Bethany Hamilton

Love Art Where

Both my parents were far smarter than the opportunities they had.

Bill Shorten

Art Were Unit

I grew up with both my parents around me at all times, but my kids are not knowing who I am half the time.

Boo Weekley

Time Wit Wing

I was always into playing outside as a kid; being outdoors is just a part of who I am. I owe this to both my parents, who exposed me to hunting and fishing at a young age.

Brad Leone

Art Age Young

Both my parents came into the United States from Mexico.

Cain Velasquez

United States United Unite

Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

Callum Keith Rennie

I would love to live in Japan again, but would need to really commit to learning the language before doing it. Both my parents speak Japanese fluently, so I suppose it would feel like a tradition.

Caroline Polachek

Both my parents were working in politics when I was growing up, so going on stage was not that great a leap.

Casey Wilson

Both my parents are actors, and I saw them struggle with work, waiting for phone calls.

Charlotte Le Bon

I'm Cuban. Both my parents are Cuban. My grandparents are, too. Although I have no idea where Fit comes from.

Chrissie Fit

I grew up in New York City, and both my parents worked. On weekends, we'd go out to the country, and on Sunday nights we'd come back. Sometimes we were a little cranky - it was a long drive. But we could always look forward to one thing: my mother's ziti and meat sauce.

Christa Miller

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

Christopher Walken

I wasn't born into one of the two main parties, but both my parents had a strong sense of social justice.

Chuka Umunna

In fact, both my parents were doctors but I was a duffer.

Chunky Pandey

Having lost both my parents as a teenager, family is so important to me, and I cherish my time with my children and grandchildren. I have four children, and they all became lawyers - as I was myself before I got into music.

Clive Davis

I grew up a competitive swimmer. I wanted to go the Olympics. Both my parents were professional swimmers. I competed internationally quite often, right up until I moved to California to pursue music.

Cody Simpson

I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again - their faith infused every aspect of my childhood. I'll probably spend most of my life working through that.

Craig Thompson

Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

Daisy Ridley

Both my parents were entrepreneurs and built a nice leisure business. But money was tight when I was growing up.

Deborah Meaden

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

Dee Dee Myers

If you did something, and it wasn't right, you definitely found out about it. And they were pretty smart people, both my parents, so you didn't get too much by them.

Dennis Farina

When I was just four-and-a-half, my parents separated and both my parents remarried.

Dia Mirza

As a child, I remember seeing what a struggle it was for both my parents to accommodate and adjust to the idea of not being together. They cared for each other deeply; they loved each other. They just couldn't stay together because they wanted different things from life and sometimes, it happens.

Dia Mirza

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

Diane Cilento

Both my parents came with their parents during the revolution in Cuba. Both my parents were born in Cuba. They left everything over there. My family got stripped of everything - of their land, of their jobs, everything.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido

The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war.

Doris Lessing

It's funny because I've resisted acting as a career for most of my life. But both my parents told me if I ever want to direct, I should act first because no director should direct until they know what it's like to be in the actor's shoes.

Dylan Penn

I was real into theater, and then I tried soccer, acting and ballet. Both my parents didn't want a child-star model, so I didn't get into modeling until I was 14.

Emily Ratajkowski

I remember the first time I pulled out of my driveway in my grandparents' Nissan Ultimate or Centra. I just remember getting in a car that smells like my grandparents, with both my parents standing on the lawn, so petrified. That was my car up until I was 18.

Emily Ratajkowski

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

Fannie Flagg

The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

Ferid Murad

When both my parents were unwell I was in that situation that will be very familiar to many women. I had young children in one part of the country, and elderly unwell parents in another. I was in a constant state of guilt. Was I there enough for my mother? Was I there enough for my children?

Fiona Bruce

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

George Smoot

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.

Geraldine Brooks

My view of myself doesn't change. I know who I am. I'm Cuban American; both my parents are Cuban - one was a little browner than the other one. That's who I am. I feel sorry that it's taken so long for the film industry to figure it out and to catch up.

Gina Torres