Skyler Samuels Quotes

I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.

Family was real important in putting me on my path. I'm so blessed to come from a home with a mother and a father.

I was brought up as a normal kid.

I'm from a typical middle-class family in Delhi, with one of the most down-to-earth childhoods.

My mom was a model. She met my dad when he was building the Ritz-Carlton in Colorado and she was modeling there. Although we were very blessed, my parents never wanted us to believe we didn't have to work. They didn't want us to think that our situation would get us through life.

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.

My childhood was as conventional as you could get.

People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health.

My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.

I was born in 1940 in Hathazari, Chittagong, which is now part of Bangladesh. Education was always important to my parents, and with what little we had, they were able to provide an education for their children.

What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None.

I was well brought up, my parents are still together. I lived in a council estate, but I don't anymore; I saw my parents buy a nice house and move me to a nice area.

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.

Growing up in Oklahoma the way I did, and being raised the way I was raised by my parents, gave me such a strong foundation to go out into the world and fly, so to speak, the way I was able to do.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

I was like any other kid: very normal, I can say. I just was a simple kid that came from a humble family and was taught by my father to be a family man and be committed to them. I stepped into boxing following my older brothers.

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.

My values stemmed from the family. Anything I have achieved in life has been rooted in my upbringing.

First and foremost, it's my mom and dad who gave me the foundation, the belief in me that I could do anything.

My father, Fukujuro, drove a cab and my mother, Itsuko, was a homemaker. My parents often took me to see Impressionist exhibits. At home, I would paint pictures in a similar style.

I have been blessed with a family, mother especially, who started buying me fancy shoes from the time I took baby steps.

Just because I'm a lot wealthier now doesn't mean I want my kids to grow up differently to how I did.

In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine?