Dick Strawbridge Quotes

My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics.

My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.

I recently saw this home video where my brother is playing this character Arsenio Grimley, who is a mix of Arsenio Hall and Ed Grimley - which, clearly, is my parents' doing, because he's, like, 10. He's the host, I'm every guest, and then my dad is Elton John. That was a Saturday night.

For me, 'The Goldbergs' was about surviving a crazy family - and believe me, the show is a sanitized version!

What made me so brave? Maybe it was being the middle kid of 11, and we all had to share one bathroom. New underwear? I never discovered that until I got into college.

You might be a redneck if during your senior year you and your mother had homeroom together.

I needed to temper (my dad's) enthusiasm a bit (about attending Princeton), and so I announced that I would be majoring in patricide...My mom was actually jealous.

Brothers and sisters should never be in the same family.

My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister were older, so I was raised by four adults.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

My brothers and sister and me grew up making fun of each other, the way we'd speak or move. When we get together, everyone's funny, quick, loud, and speaks on top of each other. It was like a great comedy school; nothing is precious.

The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying.

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

My brothers are both 6 ft. 5 in., and if you have younger brothers who are bigger than you then you have to learn the ancient martial art of sarcasm.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

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

I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.

Both of my parents have great senses of humor.

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.

Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.