Wolfgang Paul Quotes

My mum came from an incredibly big family.

Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

I was born February 20, 1937 in Munchen as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber.

My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas!

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

I've always been fascinated by family ancestry.

My father was one of ten children.

My real name is Chord Overstreet. I actually got my name because my dad is in the music business as a songwriter. I was the third one in my family born, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name.

A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.

When my mom and dad got married, they lived in south Boston, which is where the first six of my brothers were born. After that, they moved to Minnesota, which is where the other five of us were born. So there's 11 of us.

My dad was the 10th of 11 children. My mother has three brothers. My dad was a salesman, my mum was a school nurse.

The Russell side of my family is a clan with some serious genetics.

I don’t know who my parents were. I know nothing about my inheritance. I could be Jewish; I could be part Negro; I could be Irish; I could be Russian. I am spiritually a mix anyway, but I did have a solid childhood fortunately, because of some wonderful women who brought me up. I never had a father or a man in the house, and that was a loss...

[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.

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.

My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University.

I came from a big family, with not enough attention. It's classic. I wasn't the baby, but was second to last. It's absolutely the same story that most people have in this [film] business, they're the middle children. I've encountered some people, and it's weird to me, that they were the youngest in their family. I don't understand how that works, they got the attention.

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John.

Let's start off with my father being a mailman.

My only regret is that we didn't have more kids. I came from a family of four kids, but my wife and I just started too late.

My parents both came from very poor working-class families.

I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.