Jim Gaffigan Quotes

My mother cared a lot about clothes. It was a point of friction because when I was a teenager, and I only wanted to wear my father's shirts, and I never wanted to wear makeup, she would say: 'Put on lipstick.' That was her thing.

I was the youngest of six, with four older sisters.

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.

I always wanted a little brother because I felt like the little brother had to do everything.

I have three brothers; I'm the youngest of four.

My older brother was born, who was a cripple, then I was born, and my sister was born, the only girl. So I was between the only girl and the crippled guy. I was the middle guy.

I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.

I was born late - what my mother calls the last kick of a dying horse. There's three of us children, but I'm 13 or 14 years younger than my brother and sister.

Birth order is fascinating, and it is forever.

When you're the younger brother, usually it's not that common that you're having these experiences that your older brother is in awe of.

My parents constantly tried to talk me out of being an artist. They had gone through the whole journey with my sister and just wanted me to have a normal teenage life.

My sisters were teenagers when I was born, so the last thing they wanted was a little nappy-headed boy running around. I would imitate them or copy things off TV.

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.

I may be the baby of the family, but that doesn't mean I don't get to boss people around.

I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right.

When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you.

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.

I have a lot of older brothers who messed up in different ways in my mother's eyes. So I learned from all of their mistakes.

I'm a middle child, which is probably why I chose to be an actress. I needed the attention. I've got one older sister and a younger brother.

I'm the youngest in a family where I didn't have to take responsibility for much.

Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

When you wake up one day and say, "You know what? I don't think I ever need to sleep or have sex again." Congratulations, you're ready (to have children).

As important as the father is in the life of a child, even he must take second place to mother during the first three years of life.... Consequently, mothers actually have more to do with producing a predisposition toward homosexuality than fathers. Two kinds of mothers are particularly harmful - smother mothers and dominating mothers.