I have two sisters that are directors: one’s in documentary, one’s in film. My mother was a writer and a painter, so I’ve been surrounded since childhood by dynamic women and female voices in arts.
My mother is old-fashioned; she raised us like girls from a 19th-century book. My sisters and I are known for being the most polite girls in France. My mother wanted us to be like royalty: never ever will you be caught being rude, or superficial or being a star or whatever.
I have always been a letter writer, and I found when my numbers got over half a million, I couldn’t think about how many people there were out there. I had to think as if I were writing a letter to my brothers and sisters, to my good friends with whom I have had a correspondence since I could hold a pen.
I grew up with a lot of brothers, and I don’t have any sisters, so for me it’s really important to develop my sisterhood. It’s something I’ve always coveted.
My mother and sisters cooked Italian food, and I never heard of half of the dishes you see in these Italian restaurants. I just go in and order spaghetti.
Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.
I got very lucky with the family I was born into. From my older sisters to my mother and father, they’re just good, kind-hearted people.
I had to fight to put my socks on. That’s why I’m a great fighter. My brothers and sisters didn’t realize they were creating a monster. And then that monster made it to the Hall of Fame.
The Hewitt sisters were these amazing – both sort of philanthropists and dilettantes who went out and single-handedly collected all of these of-the-moment designs in wallpaper and textiles and in graphic design in order to teach people about design.
It is truly not fun to be the family that sticks out in an all-white community. On the other side, I have five brothers and sisters; we all look exactly the same, and we’re very, very tight. The lessons about race were not pleasant, but there are things that I loved about my childhood.
I have three older sisters who, when we were children, used to hold me down on a bad day and put make-up all over me, so I’ve had an aversion to it all my life and hate sitting down in the make-up chair.
I have six brothers and sisters. My mother has six kids from two different marriages. And we would just sit around making fun of each other’s dad, and all our dads had real problems.
My – both my sisters died with pancreatic cancer. My brother died with pancreatic cancer. My daddy died of pancreatic cancer. My mother died with breast cancer.
It’s important for me to treat a girlfriend with respect. My mum would be horrified if I behaved any differently – and I have sisters, and would hate for them to be treated badly by guys.
When I had my television show, ‘Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,’ it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
I think my best memory was taking my baby sisters trick-or-treating for the first time.
I think one reason I really like women and like working with women is because of my sisters.
I have two younger sisters, and during those first four years when I was in Argentina, I wasn’t around to see them grow up. It was very hard for all of us because missing out on that period and not seeing them grow up was tough for me.
I came from a reality show and my whole family including my sisters Shakti and Mukti Mohan have achieved fame through reality shows.
I’ve had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.
I had a lot of trouble speaking as a kid. I didn’t really speak in coherent sentences until I was, like, 6 years old. There was a long time where everybody was very worried, because my sisters were so advanced for their age, and I would barely talk.
For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters.
I would hide behind my parents’ legs at social events, I was even shy in front of my sisters. I was a really, really ridiculously shy boy. But the one thing I took from my public school education was confidence.
I started auditioning, and the first job I ever got was understudying Amy Ryan in ‘The Sisters Rosensweig’ on Broadway, directed by Daniel Sullivan. I was 18 years old.
I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, ‘Nah, nah, nah. Let’s go give ’em some grass.’
I’m not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.
Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
My demographic is very broad. Once they come, they had an idea about jazz, and then they hear me, and they come back with sisters, brothers, and kids. My audience looks like America to me.
My mother passed away when I was seven. She had a piano in the house that she was teaching my sisters how to play. That was where I first encountered music, through her.
I had grown up in a world dominated by women – I had aunts and sisters and great-aunts – and I just felt like I lived in a completely female world.
I have seven brothers and sisters, and I’m the only one who looks white because my mother has had children by all black men, and then my father has children with other women as well.
Boundaries, and countries, if we don’t have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.
I’m the son of a Navy veteran, my two sisters are in the Air Force, I have a cousin who’s a Navy Seal, and more.
Americans and French are notoriously monolingual, especially earlier generations. Language is a sense of pride in both cultures. I think that the French and Americans are like brothers or sisters who are so similar that they irritate one another.
I love it if a man makes an effort to get to know my parents and sisters. Getting to know the people who matter to me goes a long way.
I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.
In India, women are respected the most. Mothers, wives, sisters, daughters.
I can’t tell you how many times I would call and text my boss, Vince McMahon, on the set of ‘Sisters’ and ‘Trainwreck’ and anything else like this to thank him for over-preparing me for this.
Me and Kylie are sisters, but not everything we can always do together. She’s not trying to be a model. She’s trying to be more like a personality. We’re trying to kind of separate ourselves – not in a bad way!
My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.
I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it.
Me and my sisters never saw race as a limitation on what we wanted to achieve… One thing we were doing were sleeping on racism.
Two of my aunts are Catholic sisters.
My older sisters were in acting, and of course, I wanted to be just like them!
I have two incredible sisters who have very high-powered jobs and kids and, you know, both have their master’s; one runs triathlons all the time.
When my mother, sisters and I arrived on the shores of America when I was 8 years old, the boat on which we came, a freighter, passed the Statue of Liberty.
Isn’t it strange that religious prejudices – beliefs none possess, not even the saints, so they have lamented – divide brothers and sons from their fathers. You see, I except mothers and sisters; the female is not a religious animal. If she were, the world would have ceased long ago.
Myself and my two younger sisters and brother were paid for any chores, whether it was washing pop’s car, sweeping the lawn or picking mangoes.
I look and there’s our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they’re brothers and sisters, man. They’re brothers and sisters and it’s a sight for elation.
Growing up, my sisters were both into dancing, so I went to a lot of dance recitals, mostly because there were always pretty girls in leotards.
My mother was very good at encouraging me to dress however I wanted to dress. My sisters would sometimes think, ‘Oh my God, you let her buy that fuzzy leopard coat at that vintage store?’ I thought, of course, I looked like Audrey Hepburn.
I was the youngest of six kids, and my brothers and sisters were kind of a lot older than me. And the one sister that was, like, in a close age range – she was five years older than me. She was my closest sister in age, and she was a loser.
My journey is different from other star brothers, kids, or sisters. I think that is one of the main reasons that people don’t question me on this. So far, the media and the audiences have not really roped me into the ambit of nepotism.
I’ve got 11 brothers and sisters.
Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.
