“My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store in Coney Island. Now, don't get the impression that we were surrounded by merry-go-rounds, roller coasters and Ferris wheels. Nope, this was a little side street.” FirstsLittlesFatherSidesStreetsMy FamilyRoundsStoresImpressionIslandsWheelsApartmentUnclesMerryBrooklynHardwareRoller CoasterCoastersMerry Go RoundFerris WheelsConey Island Author:Gilbert Gottfried
“Music just runs in my family. My dad and my uncles are a gospel quartet, Latimore Brothers. They've been doing their thing ever since I was a kid, so I just kind of grew up around that.” KindRunningKidsBrotherGrewDadGrew UpMy FamilyMy DadUnclesQuartets Author:Jacob Latimore
“I wasn't actually going to see the original film [Lord of the Ring], because I didn't think it was possible that a film could represent the books appropriately. So I was protesting, and I wasn't going to see them. And then my family all took a jaunt together, the entire family, to see the movies, and were like, "What, you're just going to stay home?" So I saw the movies and was thoroughly impressed that Peter Jackson managed to make my vision of the book come to life, as well as my sister's and my father's, and my aunt's and my uncle's, everyone's.” ThinkingWellsBookHomeTogetherFilmFatherVisionLordSawsMy FamilyOriginalsRingsMy SisterPeterImpressedUnclesAuntLord Of The Ring Author:Evangeline Lilly
“Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I'm just the next generation, since it's always been around me when I was younger when I looked up to my mom and dad, to Michael Jackson, and B2K was my favorite band growing up.” NextGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsMomDadBandMy FamilyMy DadMy FavoriteMy MomUnclesNext GenerationMom And DadFavorite Bands Author:Jacob Latimore
“I love being from a screwed up family. We have everything in my family: prescription drug abuse, mental illness, one of my uncles is a Mormon.” Love IsDrugMy FamilyAbuseIllnessMental IllnessUnclesPrescriptionsScrewed UpDrug AbusePrescription Drugs Author:Christopher Titus
“Everyone always says, Does it bother you that Italians are always portrayed as Mafia characters? No, it doesn't bother me. First of all, not everybody in my family is in the Mafia. I have one uncle who's clean.” FirstsDoeCharacterMy FamilyCleanBotherUnclesMafia Author:Dom Irrera
“My uncle was the first one in my family to get a telephone. It was like going to the moon. He came running over to tell us, and we were so proud. A telephone! We didn't have to go to the candy store to phone any more. We went around telling everyone. But we didn't hear from my uncle for three days, so my father got worried. He said, Let's go over there. We got there, and my uncle was very depressed. I asked, What's the matter? He said, I got a telephone and nobody called me. He didn't give his number out - he didn't know that you had to!” KnowsGivingFirstsSaidMatterRunningThreeFatherNumbersProudMoonMy FamilyPhonesStoresWorriedUnclesTelephonesCandyCandy StoresVery Depressed Author:Pat Cooper
“My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.” TwoBigsMy FamilySouthernUnclesGrandparentDaddyMamaBubbaBig DaddyBig Mama Author:Laura Lippman
“I don't have many actors in my family, but I do have a Great Uncle that is a film-maker in Philadelphia, and my great-great-grandparents were Flamenco dancers in the 30's in New York, they were Spanish dancers.” FilmActorsNew YorkMy FamilyDancerMakersUnclesGrandparentPhiladelphiaFlamencoGreat Grandparents Author:Aubrey Plaza
“My family has always had Cape Verdean pride but I don't think it was something the kids in the family necessarily understood. However, I was very conscious of the fact that both sides of my family were drastically different and my aunts, cousins, and uncles varied in different shades of brown.” ThinkingDifferentFactsKidsSidesPrideConsciousUnderstoodMy FamilyBrownShadeUnclesBoth SidesCousinAuntCapes Author:Aeriel Miranda
“I think some of my inspiration came from just being around music. My family was into music. My uncle had his own band and my father use to sing in my uncle's band. If you want to go to the music influences we could be here all day. That's everybody from Michael Jackson all the way up to people in the game now that inspire me.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantUseInspirationFatherGamesInfluenceInspireBandMy FamilyJust BeingUncles Author:Nelly
“The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.” WayHas BeensYoungFatherCareersRolesMilitaryModelsMy FamilyArmyMalesSoldierRole ModelsGrandfatherAdulthoodUnclesMarineMy GrandfatherWwiiArrivingMarine CorpsMale Role Models Author:Kevin Powers