“Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.”

“I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.”

“By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.”

“I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.”

“My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.”

“Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.”

“My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.”

“Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.”

“Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.”