Melanie Brown Quotes

I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up - that nurture side.

When people ask what it's like to be an only child, I say it depends on who your parents are. I was lucky.

Between the two [parents], it was a really unique upbringing, I think, especially for where I was from.

My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.

I was well indulged as a child by my relentlessly self-improving, working class parents to express myself.

My father, who educated his children on worldly principles, gave us much money, considering our age; not in order that we might spend it, but, as he said, to accustom us to possess money without spending it. The result was, that it led me and my brother into many sins.

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

As with most people, my ideology and my attitudes about life were informed by parents and family.

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

I grew up in a family that was working-class, which taught me to be careful with money.

A lot of things come down to your roots and how you're brought up.

I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.

I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother. It was sort of hard for me to pick anything else, because this was the life I knew.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.

As I grow older and meet more and more people, I realise how lucky I am to have had a stable family environment. Both my parents had loving families but unstable upbringings, so they wanted us to have a more stable situation.

I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.

My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some secret angst.

My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined.