Joss Whedon Quotes

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relative.

I'm very much more interested in the created family than I am in actual families.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

I know I will never be able to replace my parents, but over the years I have realized that you aren't able to choose your own family.

Family doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have a mother, a father, a little brother, and an older sister.

You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.

My family is mostly a chosen one. I've managed to invite some really amazing people into my life and they become family. Brothers, sisters, siblings, mentors, role models. And I like to live that way, where your family bleeds out into the larger community.

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

I don't believe you have to be blood to be family, so I have a lot of family members.

Sometimes 'Frances' can be about finding the missing piece, trying to look for biological family as opposed to maybe realizing your family is whoever is around you at the time.

Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That means something. But there's another family and that's the kind you go out and find. Maybe even by accident sometimes. And they're as much blood as your first family. Maybe more so, because they don't have to look out for you and they don't have to love you. They choose to.

Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.

I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.

You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.

I'm a great believer in eccentrically-shaped modern families. Because I've seen them work so well. And as long as everyone loves each other, it can work very well.

Due to my lack of family, I've almost built a family around me of friends that are, for me that is, they mean more to me than my own family.

I think blood doesn't determine who your family is.

We can choose our family. We can't choose our relatives.

Once you've left the concept of family, you've left the concept of kingdom