Aisling Bea Quotes

I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.

I was a homebody growing up.

Growing up, I watched shows such as 'Blackadder' and 'Monty Python' with my parents.

I love mythology, grew up loving it. I'm a middle kid, big family, that's the thing you did in the farm country. I lived in Iowa, I loved mythology. I don't know, we're like that.

That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

I grew up in a total Pink Floyd house.

I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

I think we have a rawer version of capitalism and a more fragile community and family base than other nations. We are a more individualistic culture. From the Boston Tea Party on, we've had too little faith in government.

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

When I was 10 years old my mom used to play Tupac while she cleaned the house.

It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.

I've come to realize how much it really was a part of my upbringing, the Georgia part. We were away from town. It was just dirt and trees and spouses. And a lot of kids - my cousins, who were all like brothers and sisters to me - just a lot of kids at one time.

Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake.

I've never returned to the locations. I do remember certain days more clearly than others and certain locations with a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps one day, I'll bring my daughter to see them, if she's interested.

I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.

I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home in Atlanta often.

Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.

I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife.

I had an extraordinary childhood.

It was a very magical upbringing, the quality of feeling special, and people treated us special. You tried real hard to remember all the normal things so you didn't get twisted.

My mom lives in New York still in the home that I grew up in.

As a child, I was lucky enough to spend each summer with my grandmother.