No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
I was born and raised Catholic.
I'm very aware of my own background. I'm Irish, French, and then a little bit of everything else thrown in, ranging from German to Native American. We're talking about tiny drops of blood.
It is notable that almost all the Founding Fathers were first generation, college graduates.
In terms of preparation, if there's some historical context that's needed, I do like to read a lot. Working on Joe Kennedy for 'Boardwalk,' I read a couple of biographies on him. It's nice to have a broader context of the man outside of where the show is coming from.
I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.
I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.
Whatever we do, whatever our backgrounds, we've all had some kind of advantage somewhere along the way. Some break that might have gone to someone else. Some edge or inside track we couldn't have counted on.
I have a B.A. from UCLA. In ethnic studies.
These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.
People don't rise from nothing.
My father was a minister, so I was raised in the church.
I'm an immigrant. I'm from the Middle East.
I'm one of those people who would be OK with fading back into the background a little bit.
I come from a middle-class family in Gwalior.
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
Why am I who I am? It's the way I was raised.
Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.
Where I grew up, it was a very open home.
I grew up in a house with very few books.
I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
I literally grew up in the church.
I represent New York, I represent the Bronx, I represent the Dominican Republic. And I always have that in mind with everything that I do.
…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.
