Quirky Relatives Quotes

I got a mama who joined the Peace Corps when she was 68. I got one sister who's a holy roller preacher. Another wears a helmet and drives a motorcycle. And my brother thinks he's going to be president, so that makes me the only sane one in the family.

What is Thanksgiving without a nutty relative?

My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham.

[My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding.

My sister Wendy has a husband and two children, and they have a family photo on top of the VCR, where they're all looking slightly to the left. As though something is going on over there! I guess something happened over to the left that made everybody happy! Except my sister is cross-eyed, so she can't quite pull it off. One eye is right-on.

Mam loves to buy presents but she hates decorations. We once had a black Christmas tree because we had a new black leather couch and she wanted it to match.

My mum is unwittingly funny.

I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.

We were all such odd characters, even though we were a really functional family, in a way, as eccentric and crazy as we were. And it was such a wonderful feeling amongst us of being a family almost. We were 'The Addams Family!'

Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'

I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.