I’m really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of that from television and books – from being, essentially, an only child. I’m my mom’s only child and my dad’s fourth child, but separated by 14 years.
I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both.
I’m an only child.
No parents deserve to see their only child die.
I’m the only child of immigrant parents, you know? So all the pressure is just kind of on me: You have to make it. And I was like, ‘Well, let me make it in music.’ They were like, ‘Nah, you gotta go to school.’
My mom and I are really close, and I’m an only child.
I was an only child for 15 years and then this lovely present, Fred, came along. It was great – it meant I had my teenage years with a little one around.
I’m an only child, so I don’t come from a big family. But it has been my observation from friends who do come from big families that usually, when you have a family fight, on the back end you come out better and stronger for it.
I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.
From the time I was 9 years old, I loved magic. I was an only child, and I think that had a big impact on me. I always had grown-up friends even though I was a little kid. I would take the train from Lido Beach into Manhattan, and I’d hang out in magic shops.
I’m an only child, and so I over-rely on my friends to lend their support.
I was an only child, so I was alone a lot.
I’m an only child.
My parents owned a pharmacy in Budapest, which gave us a comfortable living. As I was their only child, they wanted me to become a pharmacist. But my own preference would have been to study philosophy and mathematics.
I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he’s the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him.
I was an only child who had every advantage, every blessing, absolutely.
My husband is an only child of only child parents.
I’m an only child. My mother was raising me alone. We couldn’t afford child care; child care hours didn’t work according to her schedule.
I was an only child until I was six.
My siblings were pretty far apart in age, so I sort of grew up as an only child.
It was strange, especially because all of the projects I did when I was young, I was always the youngest on set or the only child, so I spent my formative years hanging out with 24-year-olds when I was 13.
I’m an only child and grew up in a bad neighborhood. My parents weren’t well-off, but they would save up to get me video games. Games were something I did because I couldn’t really go outside where bad things were going on.
I was an only child so, at home, I’m turnt up by myself, doing whatever I wanna do.
Being an only child, I didn’t have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.
I’m a weirdo and an only child. That comes together to create one-woman shows.
I grew up mostly an only child. My dad remarried when I was a teenager. And then I had two stepbrothers. And then my dad had a second child. So I have a brother from the time I was 15. But I really grew up feeling like an only child.
I am an only child, and I guess was spoiled by my parents.
As an only child, I embrace loneliness. Hollywood loneliness helped to understand Marilyn Monroe in a real way. I was able to portray her very well.
I was an only child and I wasn’t going to share anything with anybody.
Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time – and I liked it. I still like being alone.
She was born Sarah Breedlove on a plantation in Delta, Louisiana, where her parents had been slaves. At 14, she married to get a home of her own, to get away from a cruel brother-in-law with whom she was living. At 17, she had her only child, A’Lelia, who I’m named after.
I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
I didn’t leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals – mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn’t have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.
I think that’s important for all ages, to not be afraid of being an individual. I grew up on my own, as an only child, so early on I think I was quite capable of making decisions by myself and being an individual.
Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.
I was a complete and typical only child. I was bookish, and sport was out of the question anyway. I had read all of Dickens and most of the volumes of Arthur Mee’s Children’s Encyclopedia by the time I was 11. The only time I was popular at school was the day I won the debating competition for my house.
I don’t mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn’t have it, I think.
My teacher told my mum, ‘I think William has dyspraxia,’ and Mum asked what that meant. She said, ‘Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.’ Mum was like, ‘Yeah, that’s my boy’.
I’m an only child.
Oh, yeah. I grew up in Southern California in the 1960’s. It was very different. I was an only child as opposed to having siblings. My brothers all lived with my step-mom. I am very close to them, but we were not raised in the same house.
I’m a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I’m happy I’m an only child.
My parents had an inter-reli’gious marriage. My father is a Gujarati and my mother a Bohri Muslim. I am an only child. My par’ents loved me very much, but were very strict: I was a tomboy, always among boys, playing, fighting.
I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just – there wasn’t a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot.
I was fortunate that I was an only child. I had two parents who I really cared about, and they cared about me, so I got off to a good start.
I’m an only child, so I don’t even have nieces or nephews.
Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
I was not big on playing house. I preferred make-believe that revolved around adventure, featuring pirates and knights. I was also domineering, impatient, relentlessly verbal, and, as an only child, often baffled by the mores of other kids.
I loved reading Grimm’s fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my wanting to be an actress.
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