Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness.
I am a first-generation American of Chinese decent. My parents were both born and raised in China and moved to the U.S. in their 20s.
We all got here from somewhere else going back in our lineage. And I think these gratuitous attacks on Americans who got here recently or whose parents got here recently need to stop.
My parents are Hungarian.
My father was a lawyer.
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.
My dad's from Barbados, but I lived with my mum. She brought me up; my uncle took me to the football. I grew up in a white family, I'd say.
My parents were Christian.
Both my mother and my father grew up in Asia, in a time of political instability. They'd earned college degrees before setting foot in the States but had to work menial jobs early on in order to make ends meet.
My parents immigrated to this country from Jamaica with no more than a fifth-grade education.
My parents being from Nigeria deeply informs all my social justice and human rights work.
My mother is Lithuanian Australian, and my father was born in Singapore, but he is Pakistani / Saudi Arabian.
Acting is not in the blood. My parents weren't actors, but I imagine that if you've been brought up with actors, you have a lovely time at home and just want that to carry on.
My parents were simpletons. Everyday living was a big thing in that small village where I was born. They had no clue about music.
My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and created me.
The way it worked was my mom came from a musical family, and my dad didn't - he was a pathologist.
I come from very creative parents.
My mum is very political - left wing - and my dad was in the advertising business. They were both from the East Coast: Boston and New York City, respectively.
My father and mother were both doctors, yes.
My father was a Gujarati and my mom Turkish.
My parents are both music lovers; they are not musicians.
I am truly multi-racial. I never knew my biological father. I've always had less information than I would have liked to have had. All I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures.
My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you everything you need to know about my attitude to money - I've never really been bothered about it.
I had a father who was a traveling salesman.
