Emily Atack Quotes

If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

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.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

I was well indulged as a child by my relentlessly self-improving, working class parents to express myself.

Honestly, I grew up with Disney.

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.

My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.

I didn't have a normal childhood by any means. But it was what it was, and I appreciate what my parents did for me.

One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious.

I was born in New Jersey but grew up mostly in Florida. My dad died when I was 8.

The background of any artist is shaped by the first 15 years of his or her life.

I grew up in a family with five kids.

I like a full house because it's how I grew up. I'm one of six children.

I was an only child, and I spent a lot of time alone. My dad was an only child, too, so we didn't have a big family, and I was really close with both of my parents. Like any kid, I thought I knew more than they did.

I was an only child until I was six.

She was just Ma, and I didn't grow up in some kind of acting dynasty: Orson Welles didn't come round and give me a piggyback; Vivien Leigh never read me a bedtime story. It was just my mum and our housekeeper, whom I adored, and after that, it was boarding school.

My mother was a doctor and so I spent a lot of time with Hirabai, our maid. One day, she got home and saw Hirabai bouncing me on her lap and cooing, 'Chunky, chunky.' She liked the name and it stuck.

I grew up in Southampton. My mum was a shop assistant; my dad was a carpenter. They broke up when I was eight.

We didn't have a TV until I was 12.

I grew up in St Louis, just with my mom.

I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up.