I've always been pretty indifferent towards the royal family. I went on a school trip once to Buckingham Palace, and all I can remember is that it was really boring.
— Vanessa Kirby
It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.
— Vanessa Hudgens
If what I went through on a national level, the trouble between me and my wife, if it helps one couple going through the same thing... if it saves one family, it's worth it.
— Vance McAllister
My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me. I never really wanted to do anything else.
— Valorie Curry
Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
— Valerie Simpson
I finally said, 'I don't care if you're the first person in your family to be a lawyer.' Everybody thought what I was doing was really exciting, but it was not moving me one bit. And that's when I decided to join city government in Chicago, and that changed my life.
— Valerie Jarrett
I really got the 'Rhoda' flavor from studying my stepmother, Angela, who's Italian, not Jewish. There's really so little difference between the speech patterns and family attitudes of Jews and Italians in the New York area, anyway.
— Valerie Harper
If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.
— Valerie Azlynn
I came from a working-class family, but I was supported by a grant system and had my fees paid, so I came out of Oxford with a debt of something like £200.
— Val McDermid
Yes, I come from a protective family. I wasn't even allowed to sleep over at a friend's place as a child.
— Vaani Kapoor
My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
— Uzo Aduba
My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
We don't celebrate birthdays in our family; the money was always given towards social causes.
— Urmila Matondkar
I never planned my career in the film industry, in acting. Yes, I always liked acting, but never ever I thought it would be my profession. I wanted to study, since my family has an academic background.
In every family, people fight, don't talk and then make amends.
— Upasana Singh
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
— Ugo Betti
There is socialism in the family that conflicts with meritocracy. And that bothered me.
— Uday Kotak
Family relationships are just so fascinating - how they shape you as a person, how you can wound each other, how you're imprinted in a way by your family and the conditions under which you grow up.
Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
I'm lucky to have been blessed with a great family and a wonderful Christian wife.
My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.
I come from a family in which public service was something to aspire to.
— Valerie Plame
If you're in a family unit... and the boys are having a particularly hard time, the impact on the entire family is troublesome.
I am a cancer patient, and I continue to fight with the hope that a cure may be just around the corner. I am grateful to my family, friends, loved ones, and to fans that I am in their thoughts and prayers. That support gives me great hope.
I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.
— Valeria Mazza
My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
— Val Kilmer
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
— V. S. Pritchett
My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an 'only' in that regard.
In performance, you don't always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.
I had no godfather/godmother/filmi family backing me, but I made it only because I just believed in my talent, and my audience reposed their faith in me. So, I always say that my godfather in B-town has been my audience. Without them, I would be nowhere.
I had a two-hour VHS tape of Sakuraba and all his crazy stuff. He was doing crazy double flying chops with both hands and undressing the Gracie family one shoulder at a time, and probably my favorite fight of all time was when he fought in Heroes and was rocked and kind of out of it, and they stopped him and kind of shook him in bounds.
— Urijah Faber
There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
— Uma Thurman
I grew up in a joint family of 60 people with one kitchen. So I am a firm believer in the family concept.
I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.
I became completely obsessed with the Royal family, or at least the psychology behind them.
My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls.
— Vanessa Diffenbaugh
During my childhood my family risked a lot financially. They put every single penny they could into my racing and also their free time was completely compromised.
— Valtteri Bottas
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
— Valerie Solanas
My theory is this: Rather than having commentaries from the cheap seats, get involved and see what you can do. What can you do around your own community, within your own family, to try to improve race relations in our country? I think this is a responsibility that we all have as citizens.
Barack's mother was very important to him, but he spent a great deal of his life living in a different place. So, as all kids do, you always have a fantasy of what perfection would be. And my guess is that Michelle's childhood was his idea of perfection. It allowed him to anchor himself with her and with her family.
We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
I'd like to do an action film, a full-on comedy film, family dramas and a soulful romantic film.
My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.
I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
— Ursula Andress
I come from a well-educated and cultured, middle-class Maharashtrian family and have been brought up with social awareness.
I've found that it is possible to have balance between your job and your family, that there are coaches out there who are doing it.
— Urban Meyer
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
— Ulysses S. Grant
I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.
