Background Quotes

“I'm from a working-class background, and I've been able to make a good living, but I'm not a millionaire.”

“I'm a farmer. I'm a rancher. I'm a small business owner. I'm a mom. I'm a grandma. I'm a hunter, and I'm a fisherman.”

“I'm a farmer's son from California. I'm a composer and a producer. And I've been a musician my whole life.”

“Theater is a big part of my life. It's my schooling. It's my background.”

“My father was a taxi driver. We were not a racing family.”

“I'm a normal, working-class girl from a council estate. That's me.”

“My first language is Spanish. I was speaking it with my family before I started school.”

“My mother and father are Argentinian, and I've visited Argentina several times.”

“My father was a big deal in the movie business. He was one of the heads of Paramount Pictures.”

“I’m just a guy that grew up in a very tough neighborhood, a very poor neighborhood, and I looked at basketball as a way to get out.”

“I'm not a diva. I'm just a girl from Scottie Road.”

“I grew up in a house without books.”

“Both sides of my family were massively poor. We were the classic old army family who are not gentry, and not farmers.”

“My father was a farmer, and we were very, very poor.”

“I am a simple woman, from a modest family, and I have never forgotten my origins.”

“I was a downtown kid. I was not a Hollywood kid.”

“My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.”

“My father was a bartender. Therefore, I was a sociologist.”

“Yes, my father was a civil servant. He was a career diplomat.”

“I'd always been a musician, but I was kind of a musician in the background.”