Alex Kingston Quotes

My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in music was kind of good, because it meant that I had something that was private and personal.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

I grew up as an only child, so inherently, most of my life was centered around me. My parents taught me to play well with others and to share my toys, but I was still an only child who didn't have to share my parent's attention with siblings. As great as my childhood was, I always wanted brothers and sisters.

I mean my mother always wanted us to be individuals. She always instilled that into our brains which was incredibly painful for an adolescent to deal with.

Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.

During my childhood, I felt older than my years because I felt responsible for my brothers and sisters.

I am the youngest of four children - three boys and one girl. I don't think becoming an actor had anything to do with seeking attention, though. My relationship with my siblings when I was growing up was close and playful.

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

Since I was a kid - youngest of five kids - I've always been starved for attention, like 'Look at me! Look at me! Look what I can do!'

I always felt that at the moment I was born, God must have blinked. He missed the occasion and never knew I had arrived. My parents had 11 children. While I love them and my five brothers and five sisters deeply, some days I felt lost in the litter.

I was with my grandmother, while one of my brothers lived with my dad, and one lived with my mom. It wasn't a great situation. Acting was the one good thing I was involved in.

One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.

I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.

My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.

I was just the youngest in the family, and most in desperate need of attention.

I was the eldest child, so I know how it feels to have attention shared with a sibling.

Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'

I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.

I was more like a middle child. My youngest brother was the baby, so he got all the attention that the baby gets. And my older brothers were getting into so much trouble that I was left in the middle, doing plays. I was up to no good, but my mother didn't know it!

Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.

I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.

It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.

I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.