I have been to Tirupathi more than I have ever been to my grandpa’s place. Every Telugu is a Tirupathi guy!
My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up with that.
I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn’t make it clear.
I think being young and, like, 14, 15, you feel like a weirdo, and playing guitar with my grandpa in my grandma’s kitchen is probably my fondest memories I’ll ever have.
He’s a very sweary sort of bad tempered curmudgeon of a man. That’s the joy of my dad, that he’s not a conventional nice grandpa, or indeed a conventional nice dad.
My grandpa was a country singer, and I started learning guitar from him, just at the kitchen table when I was younger, and I got really into it.
My grandparents and great-grandparents were classic East European/Russian Jewry. Quasky was the name until Grandpa Quasky changed it in 1948.
My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn’t something that was expected or planned for me to do.
My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned – the pastor had his own agenda – and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. ‘Grandpa ain’t going; I’m gonna stay with Grandpa.’
Everyone in my family has a weird leg in the industry. My grandpa was a director and my grandma was a third AD, so you’d always hear stories growing up just of being on set and of actors.
My grandpa and I, whenever we would go to Myrtle Beach, we couldn’t wait to get there and have fried seafood.
I had the whole ‘Ghostbusters’ toy set with the firehouse and the car and everything. Sometimes I’d use my grandpa’s camera and make little stop-motion cartoons with those toys – I was definitely a weird kid.
I don’t travel with them, but they can’t be missing in my home. There have to always be dominoes… I used to play with my family – dad, my grandpa, my uncles.
My grandma is very musical and can play piano by ear, and my grandpa was in a quartet in Kentucky.
I dislike turtlenecks at the best of times, as they are always unflattering to the imperfect male physique, but when worn in combination with a v-neck sweater, they say ‘Grandpa’ louder than any other item of clothing.
