Background Quotes

“I'm a normal, working-class girl from a council estate. That's me.”

“I'm not a diva. I'm just a girl from Scottie Road.”

“I'm not a trust-fund child. I'm a middle-class girl who's been working since she was 14.”

“My mother and father are Argentinian, and I've visited Argentina several times.”

“My father was a taxi driver. We were not a racing family.”

“I'm from a working-class background, and I've been able to make a good living, but I'm not a millionaire.”

“I've never been someone who's been given a lot of money.”

“My father was a big deal in the movie business. He was one of the heads of Paramount Pictures.”

“My father was a member of the big band The Ramblers. He was a jazz musician. We were a musical family.”

“I’m just a guy that grew up in a very tough neighborhood, a very poor neighborhood, and I looked at basketball as a way to get out.”

“I'm just a guy from Sheffield. I don't know what I'm doing here.”

“I've always been a very athletic girl. I was a figure skater for 15 years, and I was a nationally ranked skater.”

“I came out of the theater and I've always been a theater person.”

“My father was a waiter, and I was a waitress.”

“I came from a musical family. My mum was a singer and a pianist, and my dad was a cornet player.”

“My first language is Spanish. I was speaking it with my family before I started school.”

“I am from a family of nine. So I was not the only breadwinner.”

“I am a product of my time. I am a product of my family. I am a product of my religion.”

“I was born in a village where you don't know when you were born. I mean, you don't have a birth certificate. You don't have nothing.”

“My father was a chief. He had 40 wives and 80 children. I have 79 brothers and sisters.”