Unconventional Household Quotes

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.

I was one of six kids in a single-parent household.

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.

I started off wanting one husband and seven children, but it ended up the other way around.

If you were there behind every family's closed doors, everyone's a little wacko. Chances are that your family is no weirder than the next family or than the other girl at school's family. Everyone can be quirky at times, and I embrace that, personally.

Everyone thinks I live alone, but I don't. My characters all live with me.

My family is as far from a stage family as you could ever possibly find.

There's absolutely nothing anyone can say about my mother or myself or my step-father that we haven't heard before. You'd have to be a Dickens or a Nabakov to come up with something really offensive.

I come from a pretty strange family.

There are a lot of big personalities in our family, and because of the way that we interact with each other - and the fact that the girls are beautiful, the little ones are adorable, and my husband is an Olympic champion - there was this perfect storm, where I think you kind of wanted to watch and go, 'Wow, what's happening with this family?'

I grew up in a house where there were no taboos, so it came originally from a pretty innocent place, where I was shocked at the things that shocked people.

My mom was the breadwinner in my family. I always thought, 'That's how it is.' I never thought that was the exception.