My Brother Quotes - Page 17

• Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Brother, Husband

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• It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship.

  Penelope Cruz

  Family, Brother, Great Relationship

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• I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Brother, Lost, Over It

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• I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.

  Manu Bennett

  Mother, Brother, School

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• I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Brother, Hip Hop, Hips

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• My brother and I are always trying to figure out a way to work again together.

  Beau Bridges

  Brother, Always Trying, Together

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

  Beau Bridges

  Brother, Years, Stories

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was lucky that audiences in Mexico liked my work. I was even luckier when I got to do movies and plays with my brothers.

  Demian Bichir

  Brother, Play, Lucky

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• I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.

  James Belushi

  Mom, Brother, Couple

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• I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, 'What do you think is so funny?'

  James Belushi

  Brother, Dad, Character

  "The Belushis: Funny is in their bones" by Rick Kogan, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 26, 2012.

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• My father made sure I was treated equally with my brothers.

  Joyce Banda

  Brother, Father, Made

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• When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.

  Steve Burns

  Brother, Guitar, Play

  "Ex-'Blue's Clues' host Steve Burns an indie rocker at heart" by Joe Dangelo, www.mtv.com. April 29, 2002.

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• I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

  Darren Criss

  Brother, Growing Up, Guitar

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• My brother was very important to me. And he played guitar. So that's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a guitar player. So he was the first one to inspire me to do something with my life. And I was so glad that he was there.

  Bootsy Collins

  Brother, Player, Guitar

  "Bootsy Collins Brings Back The Funk". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 19, 2011.

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• I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents thought I was making it up. However, when my brother and I fabricated a story about an encounter with a bear, they believed that! So maybe I learned very early on that fiction was more interesting to listeners!

  Sharon Creech

  Brother, Home, Feet

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• When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

  Yash Chopra

  Brother, College, Directors

  "The Scene" Interview, edition.cnn.com. October 3, 2006.

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• The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.

  Jack Dorsey

  Brother, Stupid, Useless Things

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• I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.

  Nonito Donaire

  Brother, Fighting, Boxing

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• My brother and I moved out to Hollywood initially to be a band, and where we lived, there was crime all over with my brother and I being the victims sometimes.

  Troy Duffy

  Brother, Hollywood, Band

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Mom, Friday, Brother

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• My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Morning, Brother, Jobs

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• I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.

  Natalie Dormer

  Brother, Children, Character

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• My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there.

  Terrell Davis

  Mom, Strong, Brother

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• I did not fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I am not his employer. I do not have such authority. And even if I did, I would never fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I love Brian Wilson. We are partners. He’s my cousin by birth and my brother in music.

  Mike Love

  Beach, Cousin, Brother

  "Mike Love sets the record straight on Brian Wilson's 'firing'" by Mike Love, articles.latimes.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.

  Anthony Mackie

  Brother, New York, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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