Top 100 My Parents Are Quotes
#1. I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.
Teresa Palmer
#2. My parents are both definitely supportive of my career.They are both big fans of rap. They are really what influenced me.
Joey Badass
#4. My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out.
Adam DeVine
#5. My poor family. I try to protect them from my work. My parents are very religious, and my brother and sister are very normal. We have an understanding, I think, that what I do isn't quite down their alley.
Alissa Nutting
#6. My parents are worried, of course, but how can I feel sorry for them, since they made me this way and then deserted me?
Gillian Flynn
#7. My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.
David Oyelowo
#8. Thank you ... San Francisco. All right, you're ruining the show. Thank you ... for clapping for what my parents are ashamed of.
Daniel Tosh
#9. My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.
Lewis Black
#10. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.
Kaley Cuoco
#11. My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.
Kenneth Branagh
#12. I guess I'm kind of a mutt. I was born in the U.S., my parents are from Mexico, and I grew up in Switzerland. It's weird because I sound American, but I spell theater 'theatre' with the 'r' before the 'e'.
Roberto Aguire
#13. I quickly realized I live the least interesting literary life imaginable. My parents are happily married. There haven't been any major traumas. I'm not sure that the story of my life would be much fun to read.
Anthony Marra
#14. My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.
Brian McDermott
#15. Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.
Hugo Weaving
#16. Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.
Wes Bentley
#17. My parents are a big help, and they're always making sure I have a normal life and my life isn't all just about acting and stuff.
Cayden Boyd
#18. I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
Naomi Scott
#19. I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my parents are different. I'm really lucky to have them because they let me make my own decisions.
Emily Browning
#20. I grew up in northwest London on a council estate. My parents are Irish immigrants who came over here when they were very young and worked in menial jobs all their lives, and I'm one of many siblings.
Amanda Hale
#21. Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
Callum Keith Rennie
#22. My parents are not shy, clearly publicly and otherwise, in expressing their hopes that they will soon be grandparents.
Chelsea Clinton
#23. I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.
Marion Cotillard
#24. The term "global audience" is misleading and meaningless, but I'm proud to say that I do indeed have a global audience. At least while my grandma's vacationing in Ireland, my grandpa's in Germany, and my parents are visiting Australia.
Jarod Kintz
#25. My parents are hippies, so I must have a bit of hippie in me.
Josh Hartnett
#26. My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.
Heather Brooke
#27. My parents are both huge science-fiction and fantasy fans - I was fed it.
Carrie Vaughn
#29. It's always something we have to negotiate - the fact that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done.
David Levithan
#30. Both my parents are actors, in very different ways.
Linus Roache
#31. Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.
Andy Serkis
#32. My parents are a bedrock. And I have three complex, strong, and funny sisters who inspire and sustain me.
Christina Baker Kline
#33. Both of my parents are teachers. One is in the Waldorf school system in Louisville, Ky., and the other runs a music school. I grew up with loving, supportive, encouraging parents that let me make my own world, and I wish that for every single child.
Madi Diaz
#34. My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - don't depend on other people, do it yourself.
Kyrsten Sinema
#35. To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things. Just being part of that family definitely brought out and cultivated the creative arts in us.
Brooklyn Sudano
#36. My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually. I'm bilingual, so I had experience with French.
Celine Buckens
#37. I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.
Grace Slick
#38. My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.
Gemma Chan
#39. The saddest realization I've had in my life is that my parents are people. Sad, human people. I aged a decade in that moment.
Amy Schumer
#40. I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was ... appalling ... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
Laura Wade
#41. I've got to say, my parents have always been very supportive. I used to sit in my bedroom and read every liner note and listened to records. My parents are rock fans.
Eddie Trunk
#42. I come from good stock. Both of my parents are big - my dad is a big guy; my mom is a big lady.
Frank Thomas
#43. My parents are both musicians and made sure we all played music. My brothers and sisters all play instruments, so we'll get together whenever we can and play. We play a lot of classical music - you know, the good stuff.
Olivia Culpo
#44. I am feeling as if my parents are my children. I'm extremely protective about both of them while on the set
Ranbir Kapoor
#45. My parents are high school sweethearts.
Becky G
#46. My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way.
SZA
#48. My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about.
Anita Hill
#49. My parents are very humble people who have simple lives ... they live in a pleasant little town in China.
Liu Wen
#50. My parents played by parents, in the second season [of Suits]. We had a Skype scene and they were my real parents. My parents are cartoons. When they come up and visit, they're hilarious. My mother somehow finds a way to get in the way of everything.
Rick Hoffman
#52. Talk about getting off tangent. My mother's friend may have just killed his wife and my parents are sitting there talking about cows.
Wendy Lichtman
#53. My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like Jack Hirschman.
Amber Tamblyn
#54. What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are the people who are closest to me. My parents are very positive people. They've been supportive. They're always there.
Derek Jeter
#55. Raising awareness about the Deaf culture is a huge cause that I advocate. Because both of my parents are deaf, I am passionate about it in an entirely different way.
Grace Gealey
#56. My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
#57. I feel like I'm really blessed and lucky that I have a very good social life outside of the gym, and I have a really amazing family. My parents are so supportive. I have a younger brother and two younger sisters, and they're really awesome. So I feel like I get the best of both worlds.
Aly Raisman
#58. Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?'
Natasha Henstridge
#59. I grew up raised in church, my parents are both traveling ministers. They blocked out MTV which was fine, but I'd find myself figuring out who New Kids On The Block were.
Katy Perry
#60. My parents are Dominican. I would always go to the Dominican Republic, and I fell in love with Bachata, which comes from the Dominican Republic.
Prince Royce
#61. My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.
Michael Cera
#62. My parents are my role models. I also love Halle Berry, Robert DeNiro, Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Tom Cruise and Jennifer Lopez. When I see their work, I get engulfed in it. They really capture me.
Raven-Symone
#63. I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy away from the big yellow ball that comes up in the sky every once in a while.
Denis Leary
#64. Both my parents are chefs ... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.
Ming-Na Wen
#65. My brother is the lead singer of The Torn, and my parents are in a country duo.
Sheridan Smith
#66. I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure, so I went to medical school.
Tess Gerritsen
#69. My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.
Adam Hicks
#70. Losing my father made me want to find out if I could come up with a version of God or the afterlife that I could feel like was acceptable now that both my parents are in it.
Tracy K. Smith
#71. Both my parents are doctors, so from the time I was a child, I wanted to do medicine.
Riaad Moosa
#72. My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.
Gabrielle Aplin
#73. Outside of my family, I don't really know. They're great people and my parents are great parents, and they brought me up very well, I think. I don't know, I think that's about all the heroes I've had.
Robert Pattinson
#74. My parents are OK with me wearing a small heel, up to 1.5 inches high. Heels give me height when I wear such long dresses. For me, they complete the outfit.
Jackie Evancho
#75. We just found out my little brother has a peanut allergy, which is very serious I know. But still I feel like my parents are totally overreacting - they caught me eating a tiny little bag of airline peanuts and they kicked me out of his funeral.
Anthony Jeselnik
#76. My parents are pretty religious, devout, but did they force it on me? No, I don't think so. I still think of myself as a Lutheran, just one who doesn't go to church.
Kristen Schaal
#77. Cara is not my real name, and I'm not going to tell you what it is. Only because I do live in New York and enough people already know who my parents are.
Irene Cara
#78. My parents are both English. My dad is a plastic surgeon - his name's Norman Waterhouse, but we call him Normy. And my mom's a nurse, which is how they met - in a hospital, over decaying bone.
Suki Waterhouse
#79. My parents are divorced, and that was the last thing I wanted for myself. I waited until I was 36 to propose, and I'm really proud of that.
Josh Duhamel
#80. Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
Daisy Ridley
#81. My parents are my role models. All they've done for me, they're just major people in my life. They've stood by me and got me where I am today.
Keke Palmer
#82. I come from a duo, actually, quite literally. My parents are Linda and Eddie, and they had an act in Vegas called 'Love's Way.'
Jenny Lewis
#83. My parents are proud to be Canadian, as I am. They had a lot to do with my success and sacrificed a lot over the years.
Daniel Nestor
#84. For dinner I want real sushi - not the Americanized kind. My parents are American Samoan so I don't go for any of those rolls. I'll have raw prawn or sea urchin or octopus. I love it.
Junior Seau
#85. I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.
J. August Richards
#86. No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.
Shia Labeouf
#87. My parents are highly evolved worriers ... If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box a long time ago.
Firoozeh Dumas
#88. Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted.
John Green
#89. My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option.
Ato Essandoh
#90. My parents are apolitical - no bumper stickers, no yard signs. They don't talk about politics.
Joel Burns
#91. I'm at a camp with over 100 girls 11 to 13 years old, around my own age, and I feel like my parents are my only friends. -Mackenzie
Tara Michener
#92. My parents are very even-keeled. You know, just kind of steady as she goes.
Tom Glavine
#93. My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
Saina Nehwal
#94. I used to trapshoot. I was actually a junior national champion. My parents are trapshooters, so I'm more into target stuff.
Greg LeMond
#95. My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.
Margaret Cho
#97. My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#98. My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh ...
Garth Nix
#99. So, yeah, I mean, there is something universal about that feeling - that 20-something, what the hell am I going to do with my life, I'm lost and my parents are freaking me out, and what's the point? Every generation has a way of making that unique, but there are certain universals of that feeling.
Zach Braff
#100. My parents are awesome, but they're pretty left-wing.
Winona Ryder
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