Family surprise Quotes

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

My mom had no idea she was having twins.

I had just put the casket in the hearse and was watching it drive away, when a beautiful blond woman comes up and embraces me. I said to her, 'You have a drink on you? You have a car?' She said, 'Daddy, it's me — Tatum!' I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it's my daughter. It's so sick.

I have a secret sibling that I never knew existed and who was given up for adoption at birth by my parents, and she was born without legs.

I've always felt as much outside the Jewish experience as in it. It astonished my family that I wrote about things Jewish.

I shocked my parents with a lot of things, whether it was becoming an actor or when I was dating someone outside the Egyptian community or when I moved away from home before getting married.

I got into the entertainment world and started modelling when I was 15. When I told my parents that was what I was going to do for a living, it was very shocking for them.

I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful. They didn't know what a closet Hindi film buff I was. I used to dance to old Hindi films songs on the sly, so my decision to be a part of Hindi cinema was shocking even for my parents.

One thing led to another and I was selected from Hyderabad for the Miss India pageant. I remember my mother being really surprised that I wanted to take part!

My family had never in their wildest dream thought I would get married.

Somebody, my daughter or my wife, gave me a music box for Christmas. It plays "My Funny Valentine" on celeste, you know? So I had Bobby [Irving] just play "Jean Pierre" with the changes on celeste.

I hoped Lissa remained the only one with a surprise sibling.

My second year of Ryerson, I still lived at my folks' place. I went to the attic to find some prop for a play I was doing. And I found a scrapbook dedicated to my father's years at Ryerson as an actor. He never mentioned it.

There was a time when I'd resigned myself to never having my own family, so to fall pregnant with Belle was overwhelming.

Didn't know I had a half sister until I was 12 or 13. So that was interesting.

I didn't know who my daddy was until I was 10 or 12. Surprising as it may seem, he was living right across the street.

Yesterday when we went over the plan again and again, I never thought about Grandad showing up. Because I'm an idiot, basically--an idiot with poor planning skills. Of course he's here. Where else would he be? Seriously, what else could go wrong?

Behind every successful enterprise, there is a supporting wife and surprised in-laws.

Seven daughters was never part of my plan.

I was 26 years old when I found out that I had a sister who I never knew existed.

My daughter Meredith Moon from my second wife has a band that does Appalachian music, with five-strong banjo, clawhammer style. I may have to direct her somewhere. Meredith was my middle name. I would have to direct her because I am always directing something. She's in the musician's union and she is only 21. Your kids surprise you.