Background Quotes

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

“I will never forget where I came from.”

“My father was a restaurant-man, a cafe-man, a sandwich-man, and a breakfast-man.”

“I grew up in Queens, in a working-class community. My dad is a retired history teacher.”

“I come from a very musical family. My mother was a classical pianist, and my father was a singer.”

“My father was a state trooper and a World War II veteran, and my mother was a registered nurse.”

“I'm a guy who is a product of the public schools.”

“My father was a butcher, and my mother was a housewife. I was the first one in my family to go to college.”

“I was raised in a middle-class family. I'm a Baltimore boy. Not a ghetto boy.”

“My dad was a combat vet from Vietnam. He was a machinist. My mom was a clerk in a school.”

“I'm from a lower-middle-class family. I'm one of those generic suburban kids.”

“My dad was an actor, so I grew up around the business.”

“Your background and environment are with you for life. No question.”

“I was just a boy from the valleys who did well.”

“Growing up in Jamaica, the first sport I played was cricket. It's a bat-and-ball game, so it's not that different.”

“I grew up a Southern Baptist, and I know a lot about the Bible.”

“We were all from dysfunctional families, but in a good way.”

“I'm from a military family. I've been in military life my whole life.”

“I grew up in a house without books.”

“I was never the girl next door. I'm the girl from the other side of the tracks.”