Joseph P. Kennedy Quotes

My sister's an actor as well.

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the acting profession. But that wasn't sexism, it was snobbery, which I knew and took very humbly.

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!

I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - 'Do I have Thanksgiving at my husband's parents' house, or at my parents' house?'

Stays at the in-laws' aren't inherently sexy.

When we were getting married the Hindu way in Arrah, we had an old guest who asked my wife what her 'good name' was. I think she'd heard that I had married a Muslim. When my wife said, 'Mona Ahmed Ali,' the lady looked at me and exclaimed, 'Oh, so you've married a terrorist.'

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman who lives in Canada

Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl. Boy and girl angst over which family they visit at Thanksgiving and which one in December and whether or not it's best to serve turkey or goose for the family feast. When first faced with the reality that the family you married into does things differently, the warmth of tradition can take on a chill.

The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.

When you marry someone, you marry their entire family.

Laistry....I can't even say that. What would you call them in English?" "Canadians.

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?

How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?

J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.

If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.

I think all gay guys should get married. I think they should have to get married. They should have to adopt kids because, actually, I'm getting tired of their happy-go-lucky lifestyle. I've had it with them being all happy and in shape. I could look good in denim short shorts and combat boots, too, if I had all day to do leg presses at the gym.

Does he behave in rude or improper ways?" "He's a Bowman. We don't know any better.

Round-heads and Wooden-shoes are standing jokes.

As a girl, she was a legal prey, especially if she was dressed in a worn black leather jacket and had pierced eyebrows, tattoos, and zero social status.

I got married and basically forgot about Elvis. Then Speedway came. That was the most fun of all, to see him every day all those weeks.

You're Mexican until you make money and then you're Spanish.