My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections.
It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.
Both my parents lived through a world war. My grandparents lived through two world wars. And they didn’t go around saying, ‘Look for happiness.’
Both my parents were born in the Philippines. My dad is full Filipino, but my mom looks a little mixed, and her mom’s name is Estelita Coquico.
Both my parents were educators, so interviews and college applications and shaking hands and looking people in the eye and feeling confident and knowing what you can bring to any project or audition – I’ve known about these things my entire life.
Losing my father made me want to find out if I could come up with a version of God or the afterlife that I could feel like was acceptable now that both my parents are in it.
Both my parents developed dementia in their old age. Everyone I know whose parents had dementia feel that they didn’t deal with it very well.
I was an only child. Both my parents came from working-class families in Hackney, east London.
Both my parents were keen golfers and Dad was such a creature of habit that he didn’t see much of me at Ayr United because he always played a round on Saturdays. He was an old-school parent of his time and I’ve no complaints.
Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it’s a masterpiece.
Both my parents are very emotional. My mom is not expressive, my father is more, and he speaks out more.
I lost both my parents, and it wasn’t as hard as losing Paul, because you’ve got your whole life with them – you know it’s going to happen. With Paul being my best friend, I just didn’t see it coming.
In eighth grade, I went to home school, but it was a program meant for stay-at-home moms, and both my parents worked, so I had to grade my own papers. I’d be like, ‘Ah man, you’re close enough, you get 100 percent!’
Both my parents said they never got so many emails from friends and colleagues – with all the theater work that I’ve done – than when I was on ‘The Good Wife.’
Both my parents ran small businesses and it undoubtedly made me the person I am today because I’ve only ever known them work incredibly hard.
Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.
We lived above my father’s launderette. Both my parents ran the launderette, but my father was also a factory supervisor, and my mum worked part-time in an accounts office.
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