Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

My family background was deeply Christian.

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.