Bill Griffith Quotes

My mum had me brought up by nannies and governesses. I didn't have much to do with my parents until I was 21.

Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.

My kids are being raised in a much more affluent environment than was mine. My wife and I talk about that all the time because neither of us had this kind of experience.

My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.

My mother and father were interested in the arts.

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

You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against.

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

The first seven years of my life, me, my mom and dad and my four older siblings lived in a suburb of Stockholm, and my mom was very active with directing theater. So I basically grew up at the theater on the floors of the shows, so I was really surrounded with music at a young age.

You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.

I had a very difficult upbringing.

My parents kept me very grounded.

I am an only child, and I guess was spoiled by my parents.

My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.

I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours was a family of love and a family of prayer.

The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.

I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.

My dad was a great guy; my mother was wonderful. I was very lucky to be around music from the time I woke up until I went to bed.

By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, one day decided to get a divorce.

My parents were divorced when I was really young.

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