Barry Hannah Quotes

'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the Fugard line of alcoholism. Thankfully I haven't passed it on to my child, a wonderful daughter who's stone-cold sober. But I had the tendency from my father, just as he had had it from his father.

I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training.

Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.

But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics.

It says that alcoholism is a disease, and that it gets passed on from generation to generation. I've told my kids about that: "You've got the crazy gene in you, guys. When it comes time to kick back with the buddies, drink a beer, and watch a football game, just realize that there will be a day when that thing turns on you. So you better keep an eye on it".

Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting.

I have my mother's hips. The minute I eat it, it ends up on my hips.

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

… the policy of genes

Improvement in social conditions will not compensate for a bad hereditary influence.

I come with bad genetics, personally.

I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.

I'm in the pink of health except for the weight I put on because I'm now a stressful producer. But being the daughter of an alcoholic makes you four times more susceptible to becoming one.

I should thank my parents for my beauty. It's in my genes.

I have rather skinny legs - I blame my dad's side of the family.

I have always had incredibly skinny legs. It's in my family.

My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.

I was probably born an alcoholic.

I've got very little grey hair. It's to do with the genes. My mother and father were the same.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can't do anything about them.

Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.