- Nov 07, 2020
Family Quotes
On heritage, closeness and the pull of family.
These quotes touch on family in different forms: a sports club described as having a family feel, and personal reflections on growing up within a close, sometimes insular, family circle. For devotional lines on family, see our Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a family, we'd watch films and talk about people on screen - what was good or bad and whether you believed them and their stories. I loved that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about trying to get my father healthier, and there were moments when he was healthier. Then someone would give him a drink. I always felt if he had one person in his life who supported his healthy side, he'd be on his way.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, all of her sisters and my siblings all went through a stage from the age of about 15 to 19 where they widened and then lengthened. Had I not been modelling, that would have been a phase that was in a family photo album rather than in Vogue.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family of greedy food lovers.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family is as complicated as the next family. We have our joys and our tragedies, and we bear both with a black humour that is in our genes.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lots of athletes in my family and they showed me how to waterski - slalom, barefoot - all that stuff.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be going to bed at night thinking that people want to harm us, or my family, because that's when the lioness comes out.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's brother, my uncle, was an actor, quite well known in the West End. He used to come over to our house, and he and I would put on performances for my family. From that, this love of performing and acting grew.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For most of my childhood, I grew up in the countryside of England, where it was very suburban - there weren't a lot of people who were multicultural like my family. It was a place where the blonde and brunette girls in school were considered gorgeous. And because of that, I remember feeling like I wasn't good enough.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's just say my phone blew up when I came out on global television. The only people that knew were my immediate family members and my closest friends, maybe like three of them. So you can imagine how many texts and emails and Facebook messages that I got after coming out, most of which were very supportive from the LGBT community.
- Both Worlds
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- Nov 07, 2020