Sister Quotes

• I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for 'Archie' to read for a boy... I've had drivers come to pick me up in England looking for a blond, blue-eyed Scottish boy.

  

  Archie Panjabi
  • Up
  • Waiting
  • Boy

• I was one of those weirdos who, at six years old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor. I saw my sister in a play and realized that I wanted to play make believe in front of people; I was always goofing around and putting on shows for my family.

  

  Chris Wood
  • People
  • Believe
  • Family

• All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Money
  • Job
  • New

• Maluma comes from my mom, my dad and my sister's names. The first letters of my mom's name are Ma, my dad's is Lu, and my sister's is Ma.

  

  Maluma
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Name

• My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • She
  • Rest
  • Basketball

• I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Family
  • High
  • Dad

• I do think there's no substitute for really hard work. But I think the thing that launched my career at AT&T, I had a pretty tragic thing happen in my family. My sister died, and I was leading a big team at the time, and I had to take time off.

  

  Dan Schulman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• Whoopi and I have been friends ever since she claimed she couldn't sing on the set of Sister Act.

  

  Jenifer Lewis
  • She
  • Friends
  • Sister

• I got kicked out of a club for sticking up for my sister. And I got into a fight that was basically hair pulling and rolling around on the gym floor. The fights make me sound like a hell-raiser, but I'm not proud of them.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Up
  • Proud
  • Hair

• I have a studio at my house, and there is a sister studio for Disney which is about 45 minutes away, and we haven't dropped a beat. In the art of animation and voiceover work, you can pretty much work from anywhere.

  

  Jodi Benson
  • Work
  • Art
  • Pretty

• I did meet 'The Everly Brothers' once, and we talked for awhile. Then we figured out we were first cousins! My late mother was the sister of Don and Phil's father, Ike Everly.

  

  James Best
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Sister

• I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me I sing other people's songs better than my own. She says I loosen up and give the songs a different feel.

  

  El DeBarge DeBarge
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Your sister knows everything to say to piss you off. But sisters tend to be each other's biggest champion and also their hardest critics.

  

  Erin Foster
  • Sister
  • Champion
  • Critics

• I had a sister who was killed in a motorcycle wreck when I was around 4 years old. My parents adopted her son, and so my nephew became my brother. He was three years older than me, so through him, I was exposed to hip-hop.

  

  Big Smo
  • Parents
  • Son
  • Brother

• As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.

  

  J. Smith-Cameron
  • Family
  • Child
  • Sister

• My younger brother runs a guesthouse, and my sister is a janitor. I have not given them money because they earn their own money. I pay for their children's school fees.

  

  Chen Guangbiao
  • Children
  • School
  • Money

• 'You’re a damn good man, sister,' he said and went out.

  

  Dashiell Hammett
  • Good
  • Sister

• I've always felt like my job is to protect my sister. Even growing up, on the playground, when my sister was too shy, I would speak for her... I even had dreams where I had to save her, growing up, all the time - like, she was falling, and I had to save her.

  

  Christen Press
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wife
  • Husband
  • Year

• For much of my life - my sister and I have talked about this - when we moved, we just thought the world behind us disappeared, and all of the people, they just didn't exist any more.

  

  Marilyn Nelson
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Me
  • Brother
  • Comfortable

• I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Up
  • Growing
  • New York

• My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local swim races. My sister, Marcia, became a competitive springboard diver, and my brother excelled in water polo.

  

  Dorothy Hamill
  • Family
  • Water
  • Brother

• 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.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Growing

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