Anthony Michael Hall Quotes

None of my family is in the industry. But I watched movies like an insane person when I was a child. I used to make my dad stop at the video store every time we drove past it, and you had to drive past the video store to get to our house.

I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial.

I was born in 1943 and raised in the Bronx, in a high rise apartment complex known as Parkchester, the only child of Max, an accountant who worked in the garment district in Manhattan, and Rose, an elementary school teacher.

Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

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.

I grew up in a family of people who were obsessed with fashion.

I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.

I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

My mum is very political - left wing - and my dad was in the advertising business. They were both from the East Coast: Boston and New York City, respectively.

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.

My dad was a film professor, so he would take me to wildly inappropriate movies.

When I was 18, I applied to go to BYU like my six brothers ahead of me - I have eight boys and one girl in my family.

No one in my family had ever been in politics. My dad thought it was something that got in the way.

I didn't grow up, really, in the film business, even though my parents are both artists. I grew up in New York City. They would never put me into acting. I just kind of wanted it, and I told them that.

My parents actively tried to discourage me from going into music - especially Dad, because of the troubled times he had in his youth.

I have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.

I come from a family of seven, so growing up I always thought I'd like a big family.

I was brought up in the same house I was born in, and I lived there until I left home as an adult. I also went to a Catholic school, which was full of Irish girls whose parents never split up, so everyone I knew had these big family set-ups.

My family was extremely progressive. My parents had a love marriage, but they separated when I was two years old. I moved to Delhi with my mom, who got involved with the family business.

My brother is 18 months older than me, and my sister is three years younger. I'm the middle one. I was born in Cheltenham, and that's where I grew up.

I'm really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of that from television and books - from being, essentially, an only child. I'm my mom's only child and my dad's fourth child, but separated by 14 years.

[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born.