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My family is so weird.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

— Tony Visconti

I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.

— Tony Vincent

My father had season tickets to the Packer games, and I have several of those. I have a lot of family that still lives in the Bay Area and in Wisconsin, too. And so, I like to get back as often as I can.

— Tony Shalhoub

Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

We weren't rich by any means, but we had each other, so we were rich in family. When you don't have a lot, it just fuels that creativity. So it manifested in us doing characters of people in the neighborhood or doing impersonations of Mom and Dad. The comedy bug, it takes over.

My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.

— Tony Parsons

I don't want to be the passively alert vegetable in the corner that takes in everything but can't communicate, which I think would suck a lot of life out of my family without giving very much to me.

My grandfather spoke fluent Spanish and I have family members who speak fluent Spanish.

— Tony Gonzalez

Having a family, taking care of your kids and people outside yourself, maybe it's motivated me more to give that extra something.

Essentially, my parents directed me in the right path. They were all for me turning professional and starting that journey as a family with my golf career.

I say homes are for families, and you have to make sure you design for the family, not just one person: kids, your wife, your grandparents need to be able to use it.

— Tony Fadell

If the church adopts a school, and the school has kids, and the kids have parents, well, then you've reconnected the hub of a community, because you've brought together its three most fundamental institutions - church, schools, and family.

And when you redefine the family other than what the Creator intended when he established it, then you look at the devolution of civilization.

The stories in 'Jim the Boy' are either made up or appropriated from some source other than my family. But the idea of a family telling stories to the kid, often to impart some kind of lesson, that's very familiar, and that's the way that I grew up.

— Tony Earley

I think I've got a responsibility to be home a little bit more, be available to my family a little bit more and do some things to help make our country better. I don't know what that is right now, but we'll see.

I got this call that they wanted me to join this cast. They called it a family show, and it thought that it would be similar to all family shows. I wasn't sure about this until I watched some tapes, and was amazed.

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.

— Tony Visconti

It's like going back home… It really is a family on '24.'

I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.

— Tony Shalhoub

Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England.

My family is just naturally funny.

By the nature of the sport and the danger we face daily, we are very close knit. Some of us have spent most of our lives together. To give you an example, having spent two decades sitting next to Richard Johnson and seeing him virtually every day, I have probably spent more time with him than I have my family, and he the same.

Coming from a very inarticulate family made me try to speak for those who can't express themselves and created a need for articulation at its most ceremonial - poetry.

— Tony Harrison

We were a single-parent household for a while. It was just my mom, me, and my brother. We were on welfare for about a year and a half. But I remember my mom never complained, and we never wanted for anything. She always made ends meet and she's been the rock for the family. She instilled in me work ethic and toughness.

— Tony Gonzalez

The No. 1 institution in the world is family. It's so powerful.

I don't fight for anybody else besides myself and my family, so therefore I win.

— Tony Ferguson

Whenever you exclude God and the value system that He represents out of the equation of a life, of a family, or a culture, you create a spiritual vacuum. Nature abhors a vacuum. It must be filled with something.

When fathers come home after a tough day at work, they should come home to serve, like my father did, teaching lessons around the dinner table and leading the family in worship and prayer.

The saga of a nation is the saga of its families written large. And whoever owns the family owns the future.

We have so many young men, especially, who are growing up without their dads. We have to fill that void. We have to do a better job helping young people see what it means to be a man, what it means to be a woman. And then, somehow, we have to put that family structure back together.

The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around.

— Tony Dorsett

I miss family and friends, and I'd like to get back to work more in Scotland, and do more things like theatre and 'Red Road.' But over here you have the beach and the mountains and the climate. A lot of people diss L.A. as being all tinsel town, fake this and fake that, but a place is only as good as the people you know.

— Tony Curran

So much of what's in my wardrobe is hand-me-downs, so my style was actually invented for me by family and friends.

— Topaz Page-Green

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

— Tony Visconti

I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't go on vacations. I don't take my family on vacations because I don't have a family. My family is the racing family.

— Tony Stewart

Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.

Nothing's given in the Rock family.

I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family.

I've been so fortunate in life to have worked for such great organizations, with great owners and general managers and all the great players, along with the support of my family.

— Tony La Russa

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.

I'm so proud to have been a part of the Chiefs for 12 seasons and will always feel like a part of their family.

— Tony Gonzalez

I think the biggest challenge when I'm on the road is being away from my family.

My fuel for my fire is to be able to provide for my family.

— Tony Ferguson

Whenever you define family as anything other than a man and a woman married together, you have just introduced an ethical nightmare.

I could have ended up a casualty of a broken family, like so many of the kids around me in inner city Baltimore. But my life was forever changed the year I turned 10. That was the year my dad turned to Jesus.

If God created the family, He should be the ultimate definer of what it is, and that should be our point of reference.

The further I get away from coaching, the more I know I made the right decision. You almost forget how wonderful family life is.

I think, in real life, when we're facing death - that is, when we come out on the other side of it, whether it's death of a friend or a family member - you come out on the other side of the mourning cherishing your life that much more.

— Tony DiTerlizzi