Zoe Perry Quotes

I don't deny that I had a very privileged upbringing, but my parents and that town maintained a sense of normalcy that I think many people find hard to achieve, and I am so grateful for that.

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.

I have been incredibly lucky. My parents are actors; they've been the safety blanket around me.

I'm not going to lie; having acting greats like Kamal Haasan and Sarika as parents has, in a sense, opened doors.

I'm lucky to attribute my success to the foundation my family gave me. I've always felt grounded in them.

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality.

There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.

Michael and I had great role models. Though his father has passed away, his parents had an amazingly strong marriage, as do mine. Both weathered really tough times. For us it has been normal to stay together through difficulties. We grew up witnessing that firsthand.

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.

I don't have any friends who are actors through my dad.

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

What kept me out of trouble is going right to the edge and then... thinking that my mother would be embarrassed, and that I didn't want to embarrass her, and that my father would be embarrassed, and I just didn't want to do that to my family.

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

My dad shaped the footballing side of me, and Mum shaped me as a person. I've always been very close to her - we've only ever had one argument, and that was over something stupid when I was 13.

I'd been very certain about not wanting to do the acting thing because of my father. I thought I'd always have the father-son thing of 'He got you the part.'

You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me.

The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

I feel very, very lucky to have come from the family I did. We have our dysfunctions and our problems, just like any family. But my parents are extremely loving people.

I think if you look at most successful people, if you ask most of them, their biggest influence was their dad.

I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family.

I grew up watching and learning from the ultimate partnership, and that is of my father and late uncle.