Patricia Heaton Quotes

I'm the only actor in the family. My little brother does Parkour. My sister married a writer, so I think that's what sparked my interest in acting.

I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.

I come from a family of four brothers, so I like sports.

Mum left school at 15, and after a few years of modelling and dating jazz musicians, was married by 21 to my father, Mike Taylor, a journalist on the 'Daily Mirror.' They had my brother and me pretty quickly and had split up by the time I was two. I don't really have any memories of them as a couple.

There might be the odd person in my family who was an artist down the line, but no one in my immediate family is an actor of any kind.

I don't think it can be in the genes. If you see the amount of footballers, how many sons play football? Not many.

My mom's a psychologist, and so is my grandfather.

If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.

No one in my family had ever been in the business.

I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

There was nobody in the family who had ever done anything like that before. My brothers - I had two brothers. They were twins. They both became architects. They were both six years older.

My mother was a big reader, and my father was an editorial writer for a newspaper.

I grew up the daughter of a local vicar and the granddaughter of a regimental sergeant major.

I was the seventh in the family. By the time I came along, one brother and two sisters had already become teachers, and this was the sort of path carved out for the rest of the family.

I had gone to work for 'Newsweek', left 'Newsweek' and went to work for 'Vanity Fair,' and then went back to 'Newsweek'. I came back to 'SI' as a contract writer.

I have a military background in my family.

My father was a scientist, and I grew up in his laboratory. Maybe I am like him, but he is not like me.

I am a product of my father's work.

I have rather skinny legs - I blame my dad's side of the family.

I am greatly influenced by my father who was a journalist.

I am not because of my father, and my son Ranbir Kapoor is not because of me.