Mark Twain Quotes

In 'War Party,' I play a quarter-breed Indian. It's a serious movie, but it's funny, too.

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

My father's family can be traced back to 1400. I've been told by gypsies that there is unmistakeably gypsy blood in me. Lee is a gypsy name, you know.

American and French culture are really, really different, but in a way it's funny.

My mum was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and even though my grandparents weren't wealthy, they were aristocrats in their time.

Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.

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

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they already have done a good pruning job.

I'll be back. I'll be black. I'll be white black.

We had our family tree done... turns out I'm a quarter gay on my father's side.

Everyone has a family tree; the Dawsons have one, it's a weeping willow.

Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.

Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his son's birth. Had he not done so, the Bard of Avon would instead be known as the rather less ringing Bard of Snitterfield.

You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.

When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!

Saw him where?" "While I was sitting outside with one of my half aunts." This seemed to satisfy Ronan was well, because he asked, "What's the other half of her?" "God, Ronan," Adam said. "Enough.

To get on in Hollywood, you've gotta be a bit gay and a bit Jewish, and I'm saving up to be Jewish.

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

It's weird the way "finger puppet" sounds okay as a noun... ladies.

I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother.