Christine Lakin Quotes

Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.

I consider myself lucky to be an only child because if I had other siblings, my mother would not have been able to take me to every audition and be so supportive of my career.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

My parents were fantastic. I was an only child, so I had a lot of love and too much attention. I don't think I was spoilt. My mother was quite a disciplinarian, but I did have a lot of attention and quite a lot of pressure to do well at whatever I was doing.

I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.

Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

'm just going to be a good friend to my kid. One thing I definitely want to change is that whole 'I don't want you to make the same mistakes' mentality. My dad didn't have much money growing up; he didn't have much of an education. He forced that on me, and I didn't want it.

To lose my mother just as I'm right on the brink of crossing that threshold over into a career, it was pretty compelling. My entire career is my mother's work, for me.

My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'

I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.

I was pampered in the fact that I had five older brothers, which I highly recommend to anyone.

I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.

I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

I was always the one leading the way in terms of wanting to do acting, singing and dancing. I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.

I grew up in a family where you could never be the center of attention.

I grew up in Baltimore, which is, you know, a city of extremes certainly, but my parents were very conservative. But they made me feel safe, and even though they were mortified at what I was doing, they encouraged it. I think because they thought, what else could I do?

I was fortunate that I was an only child. I had two parents who I really cared about, and they cared about me, so I got off to a good start.

I had such total, unequivocal, enthusiastic encouragement to be an actress. Looking back, I really find that to be a total mystery. Don't ask me why. My father was just in love with the idea that I would be an actress.

I am an only child, so not only my father, even my mother is also very supportive of my career.

I can't deny that I've had a privileged upbringing. I've been really fortunate regarding how I entered this world, not just financially, but in that I have really great parents who show me a lot of love.