Dianne Wiest Quotes

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

I didn't have a normal childhood by any means. But it was what it was, and I appreciate what my parents did for me.

My dad was young; he went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. It didn't seem to be in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really.

My mother was in Scientology my whole life. Most people don't know that we were raised in it - I didn't decide to get into it. I was brought into it by my mom.

Growing up, I had military members in my family.

I mean, I grew up in a very musical family.

I have a military background in my family.

We shot the video for 'Broken' where both my parents grew up. There was always a strong sense of serving our country in the neighborhood - my father and all my uncles served, and most of them enlisted.

I have 10 brothers and sisters. My mother raised us because my father died when I was 8.

My parents were divorced when I was 2, so I don't remember much about them being together.

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.

My grandfather was the general counsel for the Washington Senators, and my dad grew up on Ted Williams' lap.

My mom was a nurse, and my dad worked in the Health Ministry as a civil servant. When I was 6 years old, my dad got a job at the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada, so we moved there.

My dad made a conscious choice to keep my family in Canada. I think he wanted us to have a pretty normal life and one that wasn't necessarily affected by the industry or all that comes with growing up in Hollywood.

I have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.

I grew up in west London, but my dad wouldn't let me go to school there, so I went in south London.

I used to live in Devon when I was 8 years old. My mum, my grandma, and grandpa are all British.

My upbringing wasn't overly comfortable.

I grew up one of six children with working-class parents in the Deep South. My mother was a college librarian, and my father worked in a shipyard. I never saw them balance a checkbook, but they kept a roof over our heads and got all six of us into college.

I grew up in baseball stadiums. It was my two brothers and baseball around me all the time. I knew nothing about film or acting or theater when I was young!

I grew up in a military family. My father spent 26 years in the Air Force.

My father was in the military, so I was in Okinawa.

I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time.

My family is average. I didn't have a crazy life as a kid.