Parental Occupations Quotes

My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so I consider myself a Bathonian.

My father worked in a tyre factory. My mother worked as a teacher.

My father was a freelance writer/director/producer, and my mother was a stewardess for Pan-Am. It was very non-traditional.

My dad was the 10th of 11 children. My mother has three brothers. My dad was a salesman, my mum was a school nurse.

My mum was a librarian, and my dad worked in Greenland.

The way it worked was my mom came from a musical family, and my dad didn't - he was a pathologist.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.

My dad works in insurance; my mom is a speech pathologist. Very Midwestern, adorable childhood.

I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.

I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.

My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant.

I grew up in Michigan and - where to start? I mean, my dad was a doctor who worked at a jail. He was more like a jail administrator. My mom was a public school teacher. There's no artists in my family whatsoever.

My father was a military judge, and my mother was a psychiatric social worker. My brother and sister and I were moved around constantly, in and outside the U.S., living in Germany for much of our teens.

My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was into the entertainment world at all.

I grew up in Southampton. My mum was a shop assistant; my dad was a carpenter. They broke up when I was eight.

I grew up in the Seventies; my dad is an aeronautical engineer and my mum was an English and arts teacher and for a while my family had to exist on one salary.

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say 'housewife'? A home engineer.

My mum is a primary school teacher and my dad is a music teacher and I've got loads of brothers and sisters.

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

My father is a teacher; my mother was a telecom employee. I come from Palermo; I was raised in Ethiopia. I am homosexual. I didn't go to film school.

I was born in Washington, D.C., where my father was working for the Federal Trade Commission, and my mom was editor for the National Council of Catholic Women, but my parents were simply awaiting my birth before moving back to their roots in Rhode Island to raise their family.

A little secret - I'm the child of a shrink. I am; my mom's a shrink, and my father's a lawyer. So believe me, I analyze and negotiate. That is a huge amount of the director's work, especially when you're working with people who - such a variety.

I sounded like a fantasist at school when you'd go round the class, and they'd say, 'What do Mummy and Daddy do?' I was like, 'Mummy's an actress, and Daddy's a musician, and he plays his guitar with Bonnie Tyler.' And the teachers used to, like, roll their eyes, like, 'She's mental!'