Brother Quotes

‘Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It’s either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it’s Colin.’ – Tim Vine

‘Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘I admit, I don’t look like the athlete of the day’s supposed to look. My belly’s just a little big, my heinie’s just a little big, but, brother, I am bad, and they know I’m bad.’ – Dusty Rhodes

‘Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.’ – Bob Uecker

‘A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.’ – King Solomon

‘My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass’; ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We’re raising boys.” – Harmon Killebrew

‘Say, my father runs a business, and today my brother is running it for him. There are people who have worked with him for 30 years, but today, my brother is the boss. That’s not fair, but that’s what parents do, and that’s what a legacy is supposed to be.’ – Sargun Mehta

‘The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.’ – Albert Schweitzer

‘Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.’ – Walt Disney

‘If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.’ – Joseph Addison

‘Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.’ – Victor Hugo

‘The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.’ – Charles Dickens

‘My older brother, who was in the Army, now owns his own building company. My half-sister was a nurse and is now a psychotherapist.’ – Olivia Colman

‘I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.’ – Hulk Hogan

‘If we are not our brother’s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.’ – Marlon Brando

‘Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and sister; this makes me feel that I know always where I belong.’ – Jose Carreras

‘Future’s like an older brother to me, and Thug’s more like a brother my age.’ – Metro Boomin

‘I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.’ – Mike Tyson

‘I used to work in ‘Big Brother’ in the third series, I was a logger, which was the worst of all jobs, you had to sit and watch what happens and type it into a computer.’ – Alex Horne

‘Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.’ – Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles – you’re lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you’re brother and sister. That’s what intimacy is, if you’re with your soulmate.’ – Cate Blanchett

‘I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody’s presents – everybody’s – so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.’ – Tommy Hilfiger

‘Big Brother is watching you.’ – George Orwell

‘I’m a man of the people, a man for all people. I reckon that’s why I won ‘Celebrity Big Brother.’ People saw the real me, a decent bloke.’ – Bez

‘I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.’ – Mark Wahlberg

‘I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.’ – Emily Dickinson

‘I’ve got two brothers. One’s older – the artist – and then my younger brother is an ecological economist – a farmer.’ – Josh O’Connor

‘My brother and sister are smarter than me. But I’m the most successful because I’ve been given opportunities that they never had.’ – Angela Rayner

‘My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.’ – J. Cole

‘It takes two men to make one brother.’ – Israel Zangwill

‘I’ve three older brothers, Dan, Russ and Darren, and a younger brother, Joe. It was a lot of fun.’ – Rob Beckett

‘I’m trying to get people to see that we are our brother’s keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.’ – B. B. King

‘If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.’ – Epictetus

‘Me and my older brother used to do little stupid sketches from a young age, so it was always there but I never thought I could make a living from it, even though I knew I could do it every day.’ – Katy Wix

‘I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother found it in storage 15 years later, and he gave it back to me for my 30th birthday. That was amazing and probably one of the best gifts I’ve ever received.’ – Ryan Reynolds

‘Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.’ – John B. S. Haldane

‘I don’t have a twin, but I do have a brother and sisters, and I do know that there is a special bond there that is – I’m going to say – closer. It’s different. It’s closer than having a best friend. It’s easier to forgive them. I think it’s also easier to get mad at them. You feel a little piece of yourself in them.’ – Justin Hartley

‘My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.’ – Elizabeth Olsen

‘I’ve got a brother who works for the Red Cross, another brother is working with the homeless in France, some who work in restaurants or as teachers and dental technicians. My twin brother Merlin is an artist.’ – Tom Bateman

‘We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.’ – Bassem Youssef

‘I get facials. I get a manicure and pedicure every week. I get my hair cut, and I oil myself down from head to toe. I got that from my brother. I was so impressed with how high maintenance he was. When he left the room, you could still smell him for an hour.’ – Bernie Mac

‘Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the ’50s, along with Cathy Callahan.’ – William Devane

‘My dad and one brother are working the farm. They laughed when I said I wanted to act. We work very hard, but for my family, it’s just another experience in life, y’know?’ – Travis Fimmel

‘On the second half of ‘Under Pressure,’ I talk about my family, and there are voicemails on my phone from when I was on the road that actually make up the second half of the nine-minute song. I transcribe them and rap them as if I were my sister, my brother, or my father.’ – Logic

‘Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.’ – Wilbur Wright

‘My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister… because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.’ – Ronaldinho

‘Language is political. That’s why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that’s why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.’ – June Jordan

‘My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.’ – Billy Crystal

‘I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘My mum and dad got divorced when I was nine and my brother was seven, and all they strived to do was to make sure we weren’t affected.’ – Michelle Keegan

‘I saw ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ because my brother was in it. It was a watershed experience. It was theatrical and scary, and New York functioned like a character. John Guare became a hero for me.’ – Adam Rapp

‘I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.’ – Benigno Aquino III

‘If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.’ – Sam Levenson

‘Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness.’ – Francis of Assisi

‘My brother’s my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.’ – Maurice Sendak

‘And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago – by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.’ – Michelle Obama

‘My dad’s a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin player – he’s a bluegrass musician. It’s always been a part of the family.’ – Timothy Simons

‘Brandy opened a lot of doors for me and is still helping me out. If I never ever swayed from being ‘Brandy’s brother,’ it wouldn’t be a problem. But being real to yourself, it shines through.’ – Ray J

‘Nothing can stop me from loving my brother.’ – Brandy Norwood

‘I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children – I had an older brother, David, and an older sister, Betty. My father Fred worked in the mills as a textile weaving supervisor, and my mother, Mary, was a housewife.’ – Kiki Dee

‘I have always been a mother. When I was kid, I mothered my younger brother. I mothered my parents and even my boyfriends.’ – Sushmita Sen

‘A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.’ – Homer

‘So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.’ – Stevie Ray Vaughan

‘My older brother’s a cricket groundsman, my other brother’s a salesman, and my younger brother’s a trader in the City.’ – Daniel Mays

‘I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn’t deal with them.’ – Manu Bennett

‘So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.’ – Zora Neale Hurston

‘My brother works at Weetabix in Kettering. That was taken over, there were redundancies. My other brother is a builder who has lost jobs, lost work. Football is not immune from that, it just happens to be in more of a spotlight.’ – Sean Dyche

‘My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash.’ – Henny Youngman

‘I don’t want children cursing. I’m very strict on my nieces and my little brother. They have to listen to clean versions of music. Even my music.’ – Nicki Minaj

‘I’ve always had this interest in sibling relationships because I don’t have any siblings. I’m completely a product of the one-child policy in China, so I always kind of wished that I had an older brother or a younger brother or sister just to have that bond, so I find myself constantly writing about that relationship.’ – Marie Lu

‘This union has been divided in like a civil war – brother against brother – sister against sister. And I’m pulling it together. We’ve already seen evidence of that in New York, in Pennsylvania, in California. The first thing is we have to get on the same page. We have to be united in one cause.’ – James P. Hoffa

‘I lost my brother in a car wreck when I was 14 years old. When I decided I wanted to be a country singer, my dad always told me, ‘Son, you should write a song about your brother.” – Blake Shelton

‘As a child in South Carolina, I spent summers like so many children – sitting on my grandparents’ back porch with my siblings, spitting watermelon seeds into the garden or, even worse, swallowing them and trembling as my older brother and sister spoke of the vine that was probably already growing in my belly.’ – Jacqueline Woodson

‘My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.’ – Margaret Atwood

‘One night, I was really beat; we worked really late and went to get food at some takeout place. And I leaned over against this gumball machine, just exhausted, and there was a SpongeBob looking back at me. And it’s just, like, ‘Oh, brother.” – Stephen Hillenburg

‘I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.’ – Lisa Loeb

‘My brother Steve was always considered the naughty one but I used to drive my parents to despair because I had no fear. Id climb a tree without testing the branches and I was always getting into scrapes.’ – Tony Hadley

‘When we started with ‘Big Brother’ and created the reality genre, no one could ever foresee that there was so much space in the genre that it could deliver so many formats. There will be periods where there is not enough new stuff to keep the genre alive. But it will never die.’ – John de Mol, Jr.

‘Today, my brother and I share almost identical DNA, the result of a successful bone marrow transplant I had last April using his healthy stem cells. But Adam and I couldn’t be more different.’ – Suleika Jaouad

‘My brother is a genius. When we went to Italy, he was on the local television channel as a prodigy, who could solve very sophisticated mathematical equations. He was only seven or eight years old but he could solve mathematical problems for fourteen year olds.’ – Pavel Durov

‘I did grow up with Michael Landau, my brother since we were 12 years old. That was competition but in the best way. He is such a monster, always was, and we had a blast growing up playing in bands and early recording and are still the best of pals.’ – Steve Lukather

‘My brother is a scientist. He’s a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.’ – Chris Carter

‘As a young child, my family holidays were always in Rock, Cornwall, with my parents, older brother Kim and sister Nicola.’ – Toyah Willcox

‘I have an older brother who has autism – James.’ – Adam Elliott

‘Everyone knows that if you’ve got a brother, you’re going to fight.’ – Liam Gallagher

‘By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; therefore, by the law of charity, he is bound not to impose slavery on any brother in Christ.’ – John Wycliffe

‘My father, Colin, and my brother, Chris, who is four years older than me, were a great help to me when I was younger.’ – Andrew Flintoff

‘I don’t just wanna be James Franco’s little brother.’ – Dave Franco

‘Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs – Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It’s kind of a secret. People say to us, ‘Why did you get that?’ And we say, ‘No reason.” – Marilyn Manson

‘My brother is a policeman; my sister’s an English teacher. When I hear what they make versus what I make, it’s ridiculous.’ – Robert Sean Leonard

‘Oftentimes, even as a little kid, I would get up before anyone else. My brother would still be sleeping, my mom would still be sleeping, so I would literally play ‘Monopoly’ by myself. I would play board games; I would do things by myself.’ – Will Ferrell

‘My parents were typical Asian parents, and they do, like all parents, want their children to be successful. They really encouraged my brother and I to study math and science, and that’s what we did as kids.’ – Lisa Su

”O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ was this role that utterly fell into my lap and changed my life.’ – Tim Blake Nelson

‘My mother is an incredibly beautiful woman who has laughed at every single thing my father’s ever said. At a young age, my brother and I understood that if you can make girls laugh, you can punch well above your weight class.’ – Seth Meyers

‘I couldn’t have a better resource than my brother. He’s one of the smartest guys you’ll have a conversation with. He knows so much about so many different things.’ – Travis Kelce

‘To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.’ – Abbie Hoffman

‘My brother and I have converted to Christianity, and my other brother and sister are still Sikh. So for me, it’s not something that I ever want to be judgmental on. I know my parents are two people of a very strong faith. I respect all that they’ve done in raising their four kids and in the opportunities that they’ve given us.’ – Nikki Haley

‘My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.’ – Walter Kohn

‘Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became my best friends, and now I hang out with them all the time. I’m very close with them.’ – Logan Lerman

‘I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.’ – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole

‘Busta Rhymes is my brother from another mother.’ – Xzibit

‘My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘Religion and gods and beliefs – for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole – it’s about human connections.’ – Eric Kripke

‘My mother and brother made me strive to get good grades and get through school.’ – Kyle Lowry

‘When I was four or five, I had an older brother who got paralyzed from the neck down in junior high school. Some kid did a wrestling fall on him and hit his spine. We had to take care of him. I went from being the baby to not really being the baby anymore.’ – Scottie Pippen

‘I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That’s something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie ‘Precious.’ I couldn’t handle it. So I said to myself, ‘I don’t have a mother. I don’t need one. I’m going to let music be my mother.” – Quincy Jones

‘Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‘I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.’ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.’ – Joel Osteen

‘My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.’ – Hill Harper

‘Never make a companion equal to a brother.’ – Hesiod

‘Couscous is not a grain. I repeat, it is not a grain. Much like its brother spaghetti and its sister ravioli, couscous is pasta.’ – Harley Pasternak

‘My brother Gary, who was my coach, five years my elder, studied human movements at Queensland University in Brisbane. We used to train together every day, and we’d train for so long that at the end of a session, we would physically almost collapse.’ – Matthew Hayden

‘I am accused of using hard language. I admit the charge. I have not been able to find a soft word to describe villainy or to identify the perpetrator of it. The man who makes a chattel of his brother – what is he? The man who keeps back the hire of his laborers by fraud – what is he?’ – William Lloyd Garrison

‘People will laugh at me, but when they ask me to make a wish for the next life, I will say I want the same parents, same brother and sister, same wife, same friends.’ – Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

‘I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad’s always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film’s progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father’s face.’ – Mahesh Babu

‘My brother is gay – he’s a couple of years older than me, and I could not be more proud of him. It was right for him. If a player was going through something similar at a younger age, I feel I would be understanding because I was there to watch it with my brother.’ – Craig Bellamy

‘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.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He’s adopted, though we’re still blood related – he’s my cousin. My parents couldn’t have any more children after me, so when Dad’s brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.’ – Gary Numan

‘Jose Mourinho is one of the best managers with whom I have worked. I had a chance not only to have him as a coach but as a colleague, a friend, a big brother. I had a chance to learn from him, and he was open to receiving advice from me as well, even though I think he knew it all.’ – Samuel Eto’o

‘I work with my brother Finneas, and he produces all of my music in his little bedroom in our house. We actually tried renting out a studio for a month when we were producing ‘Don’t Smile at Me,’ but it was really hard there, and we ended up just doing it at home anyway.’ – Billie Eilish

‘Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.’ – Thomas Huxley

‘I grew up in Bushwick, and I lived with my mom. She was a single parent with three kids. I’ve got an older brother and a younger sister. We all were pretty active kids, but school wasn’t particularly our strong suit; we were always good at other things.’ – Anthony Ramos

‘I respect everyone, from the homeless brother and sister on the street to the executive that sits in the highest office named President Barack Obama. I respect everyone – but we over-respect no one.’ – Mo’Nique

‘My brother was a huge fan of ‘The Hunger Games’ for a couple of years before I got the role, so he was really excited when he heard that I got the role.’ – Willow Shields

‘You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.’ – Louis Farrakhan

‘My sister has seen my father’s love and my brother, but not me. But Maniesh, I didn’t even get love from my brother in my house, because everyone’s busy with their own work. But now, the love I get from my husband has made me realise how a man is supposed to care.’ – Bharti Singh

‘My dad is an art director for BBC TV shows, and my mum does screen printing workshops. Both of my parents played instruments, too, and my mum used to have crazy house parties when me and my brother were young – dub and garage would be banging through my house.’ – King Krule

‘My brother shaved a cricket bat out of a coconut branch… we played cricket with anything we put our hands on – a hard orange, a lime, a marble – anything we could use in the backyard or the streets.’ – Brian Lara

‘Me and my brother lived in kind of a shed behind our house, and it was cold. We really lived kind of a dirty existence. It was tough to move away from my father and grandfather in California. I wore socks that were so dirty they were hard and black, and I would go into the lost and found box at school and look for clothes.’ – Mark Schultz

‘I don’t care if you’re my brother – if we go play football, I’m gonna try to crack your head open. It doesn’t mean that I don’t love you. It doesn’t mean that I don’t respect you.’ – Daymond John

‘My parents’ marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren’t good for each other.’ – Gail Porter

‘Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker… anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.’ – Frank Bruno

‘Michel Roux Jr is like an older brother to me and he constantly pushed me to learn – even when I was young and I probably didn’t appreciate what he was doing for me.’ – Monica Galetti

‘My elder brother and sister were both sporty and academic, and I think, subconsciously, I knew I couldn’t go down that avenue.’ – Rose Leslie

‘I always, always go to my brother Rhys’s house whenever something goes wrong and he’ll always say ‘you’ll be alright, forget about it.” – Dean Lewis

‘My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I’m a self-taught keyboard player, though – I figured out our harmonies at the piano.’ – Brian Wilson

‘The knowledge that we have brother scouts working in the same uniform, to the same ends, in the same way, in all corners of the Empire, cannot but make scouts proud of their brotherhood, and cannot fail to bring them into closer sympathy.’ – Robert Baden-Powell

‘The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.’ – Jane Smiley

‘Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.’ – Boyle Roche

‘Mark Henry my black brother. I love him and his family.’ – The Iron Sheik

‘I have my three brothers, and then I have my adopted sister from El Salvador, who is actually the oldest. My brother and I were already born, and then my parents adopted my sister from El Salvador during the war and had two more kids.’ – Carrie Coon

‘I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn’t even know about it. If that isn’t destiny, what is?’ – Priyanka Chopra

‘I am super close with my brother. He is my ultimate role model. Growing up and having a family break apart, you know, when my parents divorced and things like that, it was a struggle, and all we had was each other at the time.’ – Ali Krieger

‘My brother, a businessman, is the main cook in his home and my sister teaches cookery. Good food and good music were the mainstays of my childhood.’ – Ainsley Harriott

‘My mom was a hairdresser. My aunt was a hairdresser. My brother was a hairdresser. My sisters are hairdressers.’ – Mark Ruffalo

‘We’ve said it since the beginning of time: The philosophy of The New Day has always been to lift your brother up.’ – Kofi Kingston

‘Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920’s and 1930’s when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother’s keeper.’ – Hubert H. Humphrey

‘Me and my brother just used to fight all the time; then my sister came along, and it was all about the little girl in the house. We’d always eat dinner together as a family.’ – Greg Rutherford

‘Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!’ – Charles Baudelaire

‘My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life – had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad’s farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.’ – Sam Shepard

‘My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.’ – Stephen Colbert

‘My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.’ – Rob James-Collier

‘I got a portrait of Nipsey at my house, bro. I got to put a platinum plaque by that, and my brother is not here to share that with me. That’s his first platinum single. We did that together.’ – Roddy Ricch

‘My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.’ – Yaya Toure

‘I was attracted to cricket at a very young age. My father’s elder brother Akram Siddiq saw the passion for cricket in me, so he pushed me, and then another uncle – father of Kamran, Umar, and Adnan Akmal – advised my father to work hard on me, as he thought that I will make it big in cricket.’ – Babar Azam

‘Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn’t know my hometown was at war with itself over its children and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives.’ – Homer Hickam

‘No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.’ – Barry White

‘There’s a lot of times that both myself and my brother wish, obviously, that we were just completely normal.’ – Prince Harry

‘And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.’ – Reba McEntire

‘This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.’ – Adam Sandler

‘I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young… he killed himself in the prime of his life.’ – Gustav Mahler

‘I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.’ – Steven Chu

‘I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister… because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.’ – Ronaldinho

‘In this country, there is a segregation of Black Turks and White Turks. Your brother Tayyip belongs to the Black Turks.’ – Recep Tayyip Erdogan

‘I’m quite different to my brother. As kids, I was his shadow – I always wanted to do things with him. I’m sure I cramped his style a little.’ – Ellyse Perry

‘Becoming a coach has to be in your blood. There are hundreds and thousands of former athletes out there, but there are maybe only 10 people who want to dedicate their lives by taking on a job as a coach. Not only a master, a coach should also be a brother or sister to his apprentices.’ – Joe Taslim

‘I don’t think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my brother and I were treated the same. He didn’t do kid stuff. There were no kid’s menus; you weren’t allowed to order off the kid’s menu at dinner – we had to try something from the adult menu.’ – Emma Watson

‘When we were growing up, I got kicked out of Timbaland’s house every day. He was the DJ for my brother’s rap group in junior high school. So I was 7, and while Tim’s DJ’ing and my brother’s rapping, I’d be upstairs dancing.’ – Pusha T

‘My brother and I loved ‘ThunderCats’ and Robin Williams coming out of an egg in ‘Mork & Mindy.’ At the time, I thought it was funny, but looking back, it was a crazy concept!’ – Shaun Evans

‘Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution – both literally and figuratively – and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.’ – Peter Guber

‘My brother and I played music together, and we all liked to show off. But I wasn’t a particularly musical kid. I did piano lessons and quit. I got kicked out of the choir.’ – Tim Minchin

‘It’s not like I’m hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I’m so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends.’ – Jared Leto

‘Living in Flint, poverty is an obstacle that you have to fight through. I always had to fend for my brother and sister – I was always the one to sacrifice my meals so that they could eat.’ – Claressa Shields

‘If one sibling does something, the other will fill the opposite role. I found, at least for my brother and I in real life, that seems to be a thing.’ – Alycia Debnam-Carey

‘I’m quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early ’90s, which I based on the early seasons of ‘Cops’ and on the amazing stuff I had read about happening on Japanese shows and the British ‘Big Brother’.’ – William Gibson

‘I have an older brother and sister, and I’m definitely ahead of my years in terms of sci-fi and films. My brother is a massive sci-fi fan, and the Linda Hamilton and Sigourney Weaver era… I was involved and interested.’ – Hannah John-Kamen

‘Kobe Bryant, to me, is still the best basketball player in my mind. He played with me and he was in my era. I still love him to death. He’s a little brother to me.’ – Gary Payton

‘Biopics no longer have to be about national leaders and well known achievers. Look at ‘Sarbjit.’ It is about an ordinary Punjabi woman’s extraordinary courage to prove her brother’s innocence.’ – Satish Kaushik

‘I have an older brother who is an actor as well.’ – Mads Mikkelsen

‘My father is an anchor and my brother is as well.’ – Patrick Wilson

‘I have a younger brother.’ – Freddie Highmore

‘Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.’ – Calvin Harris

‘We are a rugby family really. My dad and both granddads played rugby. Dad was good, on his way to Bath until he broke his leg. My brother Harry got an invitation to go and play for Bristol. I go and watch Sale Sharks and have been to Twickenham a few times.’ – Jack Butland

‘My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life.’ – Peter Cullen

‘My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn’t care what I got up to.’ – Willem Dafoe

‘When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I’m out there to win.’ – Joe Frazier

‘Growing up, my brother and sister were my best friends in the world – and still are.’ – Emily Atack

‘Originally, I wanted a pop career and formed a girl-band ‘Genie Queen’ managed by Andy McClusky from ‘Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’, but it didn’t work out. My brother John is the talented singer and song-writer with ‘The Razz,’ while my other brother Sean is a footballer for Telford United.’ – Abbey Clancy

‘Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy.’ – Emo Philips

‘My little brother played drums, so we had a drum set over at my house.’ – Synyster Gates

‘The seed for my novel ‘Half Brother’ was planted in my mind over twenty years ago, but didn’t germinate until late 2007 when I came across the obituary for Washoe, an extraordinary chimpanzee who had learned over 250 words of American Sign Language.’ – Kenneth Oppel

‘The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.’ – Rachel Weisz

‘I’ve had a life where things have worked out for me beyond my wildest dreams, and my brother’s had just the opposite.’ – Bill Paxton

‘No one in my family graduated from college until my brother did, and then I did.’ – Shannon Sharpe

‘When I was young I always used to play ‘FIFA’ or ‘Pro Evolution Soccer’ with my brother.’ – Kai Havertz

‘My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional.’ – Mark McKinnon

‘I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife’s brother.’ – Charles Farrar Browne

‘There are co-ed schools in Saudi, but those are American or British. My dad, of course, believed in the good old CBSE Indian school system and thus, my younger brother Ishmeet and I were put in an all-boys CBSE school. My mother could move out only if she wore a burkha.’ – Karan Singh Grover

‘We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little – my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.’ – Mikhail Baryshnikov

‘My brother is nine years older than I am. He’s a psychology professor, I’m an actor, and so we look at life in two different ways. We thought it would be interesting to come together and take our unique perspectives and share them with everybody else.’ – Matt Czuchry

‘When I visit my brother in South Africa, I order things I’ve only seen in zoos. Little deers and kudu, all the mammals you would never think of eating.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘I liked back in the sixties where you’d turn on the radio and go ‘Oh that’s Hendrix, that’s Creedence Clearwater, that’s The Doors, there’s The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there’s Big Brother.’ You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eighties and nineties there’s no way you could do that.’ – Creed Bratton

‘I disagree with a couple of the stances of the Catholic Church. My older brother is gay, and it’s important for me to be able to love him completely and freely, and it’s important for me to spread beliefs in the world that are not going to limit people in their love. I can’t support a religion that doesn’t support my brother.’ – Anne Hathaway

‘I heard my brother’s voice even though we were apart. I then answered the phone and found him on the line.’ – Maurice Gibb

‘Cricket’s in the blood – my dad loves it and my brother Simon played for Middlesex before becoming a radio and TV cricket commentator.’ – Bettany Hughes

‘I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn’t do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.’ – Sami Gayle

‘I was very lucky to have been brought up in a household where my older brother and my father read out loud to me as a teenager. It was a form of conversation or entertainment.’ – Michael Rosen

‘Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.’ – B. B. King

‘I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don’t see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.’ – Zac Efron

‘I was always interested in listening to music – and, of course, when my older brother brought home ‘Heartbreak Hotel,’ that was it.’ – Lindsey Buckingham

‘My brother, Chris Massey from ‘Zoey 101′, was acting first at a young age. I just followed in my sibling’s footsteps.’ – Kyle Massey

‘I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though – I didn’t know anything about films.’ – Vijay Sethupathi

‘I’ve read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of ‘You Can’t Go Home Again’ and ‘Look Homeward, Angel.” – Maya Angelou

‘And when I talk about love, I’m talking about something that’s great, though, brother. I’m talking about something that will sustain you.’ – Cornel West

‘My older brother was the person who got me interested in science in general. He used to tell me what he learned in school. My first memory of mathematics is probably the time that he told me about the problem of adding numbers from 1 to 100.’ – Maryam Mirzakhani

‘Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.’ – Anthony Mackie

‘My brother, a cardiologist, was among thousands of Muslims visited by the FBI in November 2001 and forced to submit to special registration fingerprinting, his photo and information forever in Homeland Security’s files.’ – Mona Eltahawy

‘When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did judo, so I went along because I felt like I was missing out. They eventually gave up, and I continued, then moved into Tae Kwon Do, kickboxing and various other martial arts. I did lots of different things, but mostly things like Wushu, Jeet Kune Do, Krav Maga and stuff like that.’ – Scott Adkins

‘My sisters and my brother were all very much into music. A couple of them were dancers.’ – Denny Laine

‘Me and my brother get along super well. We’re, like, best friends. So we’ll stay up until, like, five just talking because we get along and, you know, it’s cool. And he respects my opinions, and I respect his, even if we don’t have the same opinions, but a lot of the time we do.’ – Billie Eilish

‘I started playing cricket with my brother in our back garden when I was eight. The garden was long and thin, so it was perfect for us to play cricket in. We’d use a crate as the wicket. We broke quite a few windows.’ – Isa Guha

‘I have three sisters and I’ve always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.’ – Ryan Phillippe

‘The physical DNA has always been part of our family. My dad was a good boxer and gymnast; my mum is a ballroom dancer, and my brother does martial arts.’ – Jason Statham

‘My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.’ – Michael Shanks

‘Having grown up Protestant, I was unfamiliar with St. Francis. Then I watched the movie ‘Brother Sun, Sister Moon’… I just became fascinated with the character of St. Francis. What I saw in that movie was a man who had fallen in love with God, someone for whom God was everything.’ – Rich Mullins

‘I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘I have a lot of confidence in my brother George.’ – Neil Bush

‘My older brother and I read all the time. My father read, but only things related to religion. One year, he did read a set of stories that was called something like ‘365 Stories’ out loud to us. They followed a family for the year, a page a day. They were about kids with simple problems – like a wheel coming off their bicycle.’ – Amy Tan

‘Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.’ – Georg Brandes

‘It’s an experience I’d like to add to the chorus, that these blue-collar, macho men, like my older brother, had the capacity to say: ‘I don’t care, I love you anyway.’ There are young kids thinking: ‘I’ll never come out because it’s too hard in our communities.’ But I’m saying maybe your story can be similar to mine.’ – Colman Domingo

‘Affliction’s sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!’ – Robert Burns

‘Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.’ – Francis of Assisi

‘When the ‘Superfly’ flies, it’s the most beautiful thing in the world, brother.’ – Jimmy Snuka

‘There’s a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I’m affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn’t want to leave. He likes it very much.’ – David Bowie

‘I love doing things quietly. I love being with friends. I love my parents and my brother Guglielmo. They are essentials to me.’ – Vittoria Ceretti

‘My sister called her pillow a pilgo. My brother called his pacifier his nimma. But I don’t think I was much of a word generator myself.’ – Andrew Clements

‘I figure I’ll be champ for about ten years and then I’ll let my brother take over – like the Kennedys down in Washington.’ – Muhammad Ali

‘I just always want to make sure everyone’s good. I look out for my younger sister, my older brother, my mom, and my dad – I feel like I’m really hands-on when it comes to taking care of them, and making sure that they’re good.’ – Kiana Madeira

‘My mother was a single mom, and she was a claims adjuster at an insurance company. She actually dropped out of school – she was going to become a registered nurse – because she had to take care of me and my brother.’ – Stacy Brown-Philpot

‘David – the man after God’s own heart – was a man of war and a mighty man of valour. When all Israel were on the run, David faced Goliath – alone… with God – and he but a stripling, and well scolded, too, by his brother for having come to see the battle.’ – Charles Studd

‘I am a twin, but my brother and I aren’t identical, so it’s not such a big deal. But when you share bunk beds and birthdays and a womb with someone, you have a special connection. It definitely feels different from the relationship I have with my other siblings – my twin and I are more connected. Jacob is a conservationist.’ – Joseph Fiennes

‘Apart from ‘VIP’ being a blockbuster movie, the various characters such as mine, the Luna bike I use in the movie, the lovable amma and appa, a pet dog named Harry Potter, the innocent brother, etc., had a huge reach among the audiences.’ – Dhanush

‘When my older and younger brother came to live in this country, they were attacked on numerous occasions and had to defend themselves. This was a country where it was hard to assimilate, it was difficult because a lot of people didn’t want you here.’ – Lenny Henry

‘I’m an identical twin, and I felt that with my twin brother, we sort of formed this unassailable force, and it gave me the confidence to be different. Even if I was a goofball, my twin brother was a goofball with me, so I didn’t have to worry about fitting in as much. I was able to march to my own drummer.’ – Glenn Kelman

‘I had older brothers, and I don’t think there’s anything worse than an older brother. They pretty much told me the end of everything they got to see before I did.’ – Joss Whedon

‘We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad; what could I do.’ – Timothy Bottoms

‘I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘My parents, along with my brother and sister, are vegetarians.’ – Alissa White-Gluz

‘The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad’s brother, who was the second person my mom married.’ – Isaac Brock

‘There is no success you can celebrate more than the success of a brother.’ – Diego Luna

‘I’ve always like ‘Dragonball Z’ and ‘Naruto,’ that kind of drawing. My older brother draws so he was always drawing ‘Dragonball Z’ characters and so I got into it from there.’ – Santan Dave

‘I have to say, the first time I stepped into the ring, it was probably at the age of 4. That’s when I was hanging out with my uncle, my mom’s brother, Rey Mysterio Sr. It runs in the family; it’s stayed in the family.’ – Rey Mysterio

‘Everyone’s always shocked that I’m still based in Yorkshire, but going home there is my sanctuary. Home is where the heart is, and my mother, sister and brother are there, and my partner.’ – Jane McDonald

‘A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.’ – Louis Farrakhan

‘I’d never taken a job purely for money – I felt that would kill me – but I was afraid that I was heading that way. Then, my brother passing away was the final thing that kicked me over. It reminded me that life is short, and you’d better do what you want while you have a chance.’ – Mark Ruffalo

‘I grew up in Chicago, so I’ve always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we’d watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters – they were the biggest things I’ve ever seen!’ – Kyle Chandler

‘After ‘Big Brother,’ people came up to me in the street shouting, ‘You woz robbed!” – Vinnie Jones

‘I hate amusement arcades. When I was a little wheelie on holiday with my family in Wales, this was one of our safe havens on rainy days. Dad would ration out the two pences and send me and my brother off into a world of flashing lights, electronic beeps and underage gambling.’ – Liz Carr

‘We all wanted to play football and grew up loving it and were focussed on trying to get to the top. Our brother doesn’t play any more but he also helped us a lot. It was always competitive. Lauren was four years younger than our brother and two years younger than me but she always wanted to win.’ – Reece James

‘I remember taking my brother’s car out, pushing it down the driveway in neutral in the night, and going out joyriding with friends and getting flat tires and getting busted. My license was revoked by my dad. So, definitely, I was a kid. I was a teenage boy.’ – Matt Bomer

‘Reality shows. I’ll watch them, but I won’t tell anyone I’ll watch them. I remember when the first British ‘Big Brother’ was on. I watched that Nasty Nick. I never watched it since, but I watched the first one. I was mesmerized. Don’t tell anyone!’ – Robert Taylor

‘I was in awe of my older brother, but he was also quite a threatening figure – he used to beat me up.’ – Richard Herring

‘I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I’d be really happy. But without the brother thing.’ – Patricia Velasquez

‘My mortal Guru was my Irish-Christian brother who taught me how to do everything and gave me my moral values. My spiritual Guru are my parents.’ – Victor Banerjee

‘I followed in my brother’s footsteps. I used to wake up at 5 a.m, and wait for him to complete his cricket practice just so I could play the 10-15 balls pitched to me at the end.’ – Smriti Mandhana

‘My parents were incredibly strict. My father went through a stage where he’d line us up every Friday and cane our hands if we’d been naughty. And this was mainly to pull my brother into line. My brother is five years older and my sister’s eight years older. He would use a little bamboo cane, which my brother saw most of.’ – Toyah Willcox

‘I have never slapped a boy in my life except for my brother.’ – Wamiqa Gabbi

‘I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.’ – Michelle Obama

‘What, do you think I’m here to be second place, brother?’ – Tory Lanez

‘When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here’s the most important person in my life, and I never met him.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘God blesses him who helps his brother.’ – Abu Bakr

‘I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.’ – Bill Pullman

‘There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can’t. What I can’t take is when my older brother, who’s everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don’t ever want to see that look in your eyes again.’ – M. Night Shyamalan

‘The most important thing in my father’s life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.’ – Sean Lennon

‘I have so many man crushes – ‘my brother’ Tom Hardy, Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper – if he’s here today, I might get a bit squealish.’ – Ben Hardy

‘My brother and sister and I were latchkey kids, with a singer mother and no relationship with our father, and being in a firm is often about filling a void at home. For me, it was like having 50 big brothers.’ – Lexi Alexander

‘I dropped out of school after my tenth standard. But both my elder brother and younger brother are highly educated.’ – Ajith Kumar

‘My brother Barry was into all sports, and so was my late father. For me, hockey was the one sport I loved and played. I didn’t really pay much attention to the other sports.’ – Adam F. Goldberg

‘My parents separated before I was 1 year old. I moved in with my aunt and uncle when I was in fourth grade. I was, like, 8 or 9 years old. I was getting in a lot of trouble when I was in Southern California. My older sisters were in gangs. My older brother was in gangs.’ – Troy Polamalu

‘Across the country, universities that had abandoned in loco parentis in the 1960s because it was too oppressive and intrusive have replaced it with in loco Big Brother programs of political and cultural re-education.’ – Charlie Sykes

‘I was a Skynyrd fan all along. But I was also the brother of the lead singer who passed on. I just didn’t want to do anything that would harm the band’s name.’ – Johnny Van Zant

‘My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included ‘Tremors’, ‘The Goonies’, and, of course, ‘Star Wars’. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.’ – Felicity Jones

‘I had gone to a talent show – I was interested in American hip-hop music – with my older brother, to another town, and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.’ – Ishmael Beah

‘The credit of my good upbringing goes to my mother, who’s not only been a single parent to my brother and I, but she’s also been ‘our’ manager for the longest time. Our father, on the other hand, remained elusive and away from the family for most part of our lives, which left a certain void but also made us creative and reflective.’ – Kubra Sait

‘Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful – to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.’ – Thorstein Veblen

‘We are commanded to seek out those who are lost. We are to be our brother’s keeper.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘To win a joint gold medal with my brother – that’s the dream, to cross the line together.’ – Jonathan Brownlee

‘I’m the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We’re all over the artistic side of things.’ – Aarti Mann

‘A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘You learn more about life from watching ‘Big Brother’ than from reading a book.’ – John de Mol, Jr.

‘I started karate in middle school when my parents wanted me to babysit my younger brother. He was a little troublemaker, so they wanted me to make sure the class was going okay. I ended up being way more into it than my brother.’ – Karen Fukuhara

‘I was just such a quiet kid. I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.’ – Sugar Ray Leonard

‘My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.’ – Buffalo Bill

‘Anytime you get to play your brother, it’s a lot of fun.’ – Jack Hughes

‘I have a little brother. He’s actually living at my house right now. He’s going to be 18.’ – Edward Furlong

‘I have a brother and a dad as well, but I grew up in a house of women, you know?’ – Jacob Elordi

‘I feel like I have big thighs. My brother was always like, ‘Yeah, I want big thighs! Big thighs are awesome!’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, for a man!’ But I’ve trained since I was 6 years old to play soccer, and this is just the type of body I have.’ – Ali Krieger

‘I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother’s a drummer and I’ve always been jealous that he’s such a good drummer. I always try to play but it’s always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.’ – Nat Wolff

‘Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother’s instigation. So I owe him for that.’ – Beau Bridges

‘My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw ‘Ace Ventura.’ Because when I saw ‘Ace Ventura’, I became obsessed. I watched the movie as many times as I had to – back then, you couldn’t go on the Internet and find the script – so I watched it as many times as I could to write my own script of ‘Ace Ventura.” – Eliza Coupe

‘My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn’t let him cut my nails.’ – Alan King

‘I started skating when I was about 10 years old. It was in an alleyway. I picked up my brother’s skateboard and stood on it. I started to roll down the alley, and I yelled at my brother asking him how I turn the thing. At the end of the alley, I just jumped off, picked up the board and physically turned it around.’ – Tony Hawk

‘My father blamed me for my brother Gunther’s death, for not bringing him home. He died in an avalanche as we descended from the summit of Nanga Parbat, one of the 14 peaks over 8,000m, in 1970. Gunther and I did so much together. It was difficult for my father to understand what it was like up there.’ – Reinhold Messner

‘When I came to the professional game and Leverkusen asked me what number I wanted to have, I asked them which numbers were free. When they said 29, I said I’d take it because of my brother.’ – Kai Havertz

‘My parents emigrated from Poland in 1924 with my brother, who was a few months old. They were from a simple family of Polish Jews. They were looking, I suppose, for a better economic life and were escaping from an anti-Semitic environment.’ – Francois Englert

‘My mom and dad are just happy that I’m doing something that’s not illegal. My brother is just happy I found something that I’m passionate about. I didn’t see the future. They did. They saw a future for me in anything I wanted to do.’ – Eddie Kingston

‘My brother had written ‘Ocean Eyes,’ and we recorded it, basing all of the production around contemporary and lyrical dance. I think of most songs that way – if you can’t dance to a song, it’s not a song.’ – Billie Eilish

‘My brother’s my best friend, without a doubt. Me and my big sister get along so well. She moved to East London, though, so points off, but she’s wicked. And then my little sister is a little genius. She’s super talented and such a great person, always been far more mature and cool than me.’ – Will Poulter

‘My brother and sister had a much worse childhood, I think, because they were older, and they had to deal with a lot more racism because they grew up in the ’70s and I grew up more in the ’80s. So they had to deal with crosses being burned on their lawn and their dogs being poisoned.’ – Mariah Carey

‘My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.’ – Clarence Thomas

‘I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one’s family.’ – Marie Antoinette

‘I had one little brother and I would use him as a scapegoat to get us games. Obviously, I would get the more girly toys like dolls and Barbies, yadda, yadda, yadda. But I really wanted video games or action figures or something so I would send him to ask mom, ‘Hey, I want this video game’ when it was really we wanted this video game.’ – Beth Phoenix

‘I’ll always be known as Cheryl Miller’s little brother.’ – Reggie Miller

‘Then I got together with my brother and a friend and we decided to play dates. The more we played, the more we wanted to do it. And it got to a stage where we wanted to do it all the time.’ – Ray Davies

‘My brother was listening to his transistor radio. He kept switching the earpiece from one ear to the other, which I thought was his idea of a joke. ‘You can’t do that,’ I said. ‘You can only hear out of one ear.’ ‘No, I can hear out of both,’ he answered. And that was how I discovered I was deaf in my right ear.’ – Jane Lynch

‘Mum and Dad died of heart problems, my grandparents died of it, my sister has had mini strokes, my brother has had a heart attack – it’s genetic; there’s nothing I can do.’ – Paul O’Grady

‘My brother was scouted for a commercial when he was three, and it was just because he could speak clearly and was well behaved, basically. I don’t think he had any amazing acting ability at that age – although he is actually a great actor.’ – Rose McIver

‘Timeless’ is like the little sister, but ‘Journeyman’ is the big brother – it’s what I’ll take to the grave.’ – Goldie

‘I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.’ – Laverne Cox

‘My brother Max is three and half years younger than me but more of a fussy eater.’ – Alice Levine

‘I save my money, brother. I don’t spend what I don’t make.’ – Joe Penny

‘I had an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother, and though I look back fondly on my childhood, I think that when you’ve got four siblings sharing the same resources and a single kids’ bathroom, it’s going to get a little tense at times.’ – Jeff Kinney

‘My mother’s family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a vicar in the Church of Wales. But my mother converted to Islam on marrying my father. She was not obliged to; Muslim men are free to marry ahl al-kitab, or people of the Book – among them, Jews and Christians.’ – Shereen El Feki

‘I was the seventh in the family. By the time I came along, one brother and two sisters had already become teachers, and this was the sort of path carved out for the rest of the family.’ – Henry Moore

‘Our outward appearance is a reflection of what we are on the inside. Our lives reflect that for which we seek. And if with all our hearts we truly seek to know the Savior and to be more like Him, we shall be, for He is our divine, eternal Brother.’ – Margaret D. Nadauld

‘My brother does a series of movies called ‘The Purge,’ and they have the third one coming out this year, and then also he’ll be starring in the second season of ‘Secrets and Lies.’ We want each other to win because we are a team, and this is how we’ve been since day one. That’s the end game for all of us in the Hodge house.’ – Aldis Hodge

‘When I was 8 years old, my brother was making the noises of the animals I was eating, so I decided to go vegetarian. Then I would give up because I was 8.’ – Alicia Silverstone

‘My friends in Kennington always ask me, ‘can I have a shirt for my little brother or cousin,’ and I always send them shirts. I will never forget where I have come from, because I know what it is like growing up in that area, and it is not nice.’ – Jadon Sancho

‘My father was an army champion boxer… in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing.’ – Hugh Jackman

‘I’m the youngest of four. I have two older sisters and an older brother and was raised by a single mother. Basically, my household was just full of life. Everything was lit all the time.’ – Little Simz

‘My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to convert her to Western values. My mum is terrified that when I die, and we all go to God, I will be burned.’ – Ayaan Hirsi Ali

‘I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it’s an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.’ – Hampton Sides

‘Although raised on the farm – my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer – my father and his brother both became professors.’ – Philip Warren Anderson

‘My younger brother was a big Stoke fan, and I was sucked into it. I was kind of waking up every morning and looking at Gordon Banks’ face! We had all these small football cards – literally hundreds of them – and swapping them was the currency back then.’ – Morten Harket

‘My mother is a very strong woman. We were seven kids; five of them passed away. My elder brother and I are alive. My mother lost five kids, her husband, her parents and siblings. But she is so strong, she is living for the people who are alive.’ – Nana Patekar

‘My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and opera singer and my brother, who passed away, was a writer.’ – Tunde Adebimpe

‘I went to school like everyone else, but I hated it, and I always had a lot of problems. Even my younger brother Guglielmo is the same way: we can’t stay cooped up in a room for hours, listening.’ – Vittoria Ceretti

‘My mom broke the mold. She put my brother and I first, always, and worked her fingers to the bone trying to provide for us. She taught us right from wrong and gave us very strong morals and values and belief in family, things that have stayed with me.’ – Tim Howard

‘I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.’ – Nicki Minaj

‘My brother is in me. When we remember somebody else, in a certain way they are still alive. I see my brother – he is still young – looking to the Dolomites where we did our ascents. I remember those moments, so he is still together with me.’ – Reinhold Messner

‘My brother was older, very bright. He went to university. I wasn’t academically bright – maybe at first, when I was little, but it was lost. I started doing a drama workshop and got really into it, then I did a BTec in performing arts and started to work.’ – Suranne Jones

‘My sister and brother are both writers as well. We are constantly discussing story and plot lines. And I love to discuss story ideas with my husband.’ – Ruta Sepetys

‘I originally wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then I had this huge fear of black holes because my brother learned a bunch of stuff about it, and he’s like, ‘Oh, yeah, if you go into one you’re never coming back.” – Paris Jackson

‘I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother’s band for a while growing up.’ – Darren Criss

‘My brother and I always had jobs and worked from a young age.’ – Thomas Kinkade

‘My mum and brother are so proud of me.’ – Chris Smalling

‘My mum is a social worker and my dad’s a roofer. My brother Nicky and I were the first two in my family to go to university.’ – Joe Wicks

‘Only younger brothers will understand me. We’re following in the footsteps of older brothers. You are looking up to your brother. You want to do the same things. You want to do as good as he and do it even better.’ – Wladimir Klitschko

‘My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he’s always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.’ – Cornel West

‘I did grow up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, around a lot of my mom’s family. I had a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles around me, and my sisters and my brother. Probably the most formative part of it was that we grew up on the edge of a forest. It wasn’t a big forest, but it was enough. When you’re a kid, it feels gigantic.’ – Mark Ruffalo

‘If you’re lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you’re someone who’s got a family that’s all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that’s a very sad place to be.’ – Tom Hardy

‘I met a hundred men going to Delhi, and every one is my brother.’ – Pope Paul VI

‘My comedy career aside, I am a father of three, a husband, a son, a brother and a vegan.’ – Romesh Ranganathan

‘Within the family unit, you have people you grew up with who are supposed to be your brother, father, or your mother who are almost like strangers and acquaintances.’ – Taika Waititi

‘It wasn’t rich, it was hard-working, but I give thanks daily for the kind of upbringing I had, and for the values my parents brought to their own relationship and to their children. They wanted my brother and me to find out what we were best at and make the most of it.’ – Patricia Routledge

‘When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty’s Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader for my brother’s band.’ – Trombone Shorty

‘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

‘But if I thought on it, I would like to be remembered as a brother who loved his people and did everything that I knew to fight for them, the liberation of our people.’ – Louis Farrakhan

‘My parents were actors and my brother is a musician.’ – Katy Wix

‘I remember I was, like, 6 years old when I found out that I was having a little brother, and I was wishing and wishing for a sister. When my mom came out and my dad, and they’re like, ‘It’s a boy,’ Spencer, my twin brother, is cheering and jumping up and down, and then I burst into tears. I was so sad. I was crying.’ – Peyton List

‘When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, who I had grown up with, which showed me some moves, but it was never a full on match. When I went to competitions, there were other girls, so I always wrestled girls.’ – Jaimie Alexander

‘The miser, starving his brother’s body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.’ – Theodore Parker

‘I have one brother who’s five years older than me and he was a huge part of my childhood.’ – Bart Millard

‘During Partition, my parents, my brother and sisters were killed before my eyes.’ – Milkha Singh

‘One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.’ – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

‘It’s really about making opportunities for yourself and connecting with people on a more-than-normal level. That opens doors. You never know if the caterer’s brother is someone. You don’t know who someone is having dinner with that night. So being a nice person and touching people creates opportunity.’ – Gigi Hadid

‘There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.’ – Plautus

‘The best thing about having brothers and sisters is that they’re brutally honest. My brother just got the ‘Narnia’ game, and first thing he does is kill me in it! Six times, over and over again!’ – William Moseley

‘I’ll never forget the time my mother showed up with her best friend and two daughters, and all four of us dressed up in matching clothes, shoes and hats to go pick up my brother from school. I thought it was a fun thing to do, but we stepped outside my brother’s school and he was mortified!’ – Blake Lively

‘I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can be a real journey to accept what that bond is once you both mature into it. Because it’s not always what you want. It’s not always what you expect. It’s not always what you imagined or hoped. But it’s one of the most important things in the world.’ – Ben Schnetzer

‘Oral Roberts was a man of God and a great friend in ministry. I loved him as a brother.’ – Billy Graham

‘I always need a little something sweet after dinner. Although I try to stay pretty disciplined with my nutrition when I’m in season – my brother Kyle eats super clean and always gives me nutrition advice – when I want something, I have it because I feel like you can really get in trouble if you restrict yourself too much.’ – Ali Krieger

‘The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.’ – Garrison Keillor

‘And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.’ – John Sergeant Wise

‘My mother was a cleaner and my father a builder. I watched both of them make big sacrifices for my brother and I to study. This is where I get my work ethic from. This is also the source of my generosity and willingness to help.’ – Javier Zanetti

‘My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can’t be.’ – Robert Mapplethorpe

‘My brother’s got two degrees. He got one for me.’ – Rob Gronkowski

‘Me and my brother are players that spend three to four hours in the gym every day doing running, lifting heavy weights, and doing treadmill stuff.’ – Alexander Zverev

‘Three years into getting ‘The Witch’ financed, I was hanging out with my brother and he was like, ‘I’m working on this script. It’s a ghost story in a lighthouse.’ I thought, ‘Damn, that’s a really good idea, I wish I’d had it.” – Robert Eggers

‘My dad was a keen cricketer – he played at school and club level – but it was hard for him to find time for it because he was a farmer, so he encouraged me and my brother.’ – Jonathan Agnew

‘I think deep down my brother or my dad wouldn’t like me to race but it’s what I love, it’s what I want to do so I’ll always push.’ – Nicolas Hamilton

‘I take golf trips with my brother or with friends. We usually go to Pebble or Bandon Dunes. One year we went to Hawaii.’ – Greg Maddux

‘My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don’t smell, but I remember my brother’s did when we were kids.’ – Jack Prelutsky

‘There are periods on the mountain when you exist between living and dying, sometimes for days. I went through that with my brother on Nanga Parbat. It is very difficult, but it is the most intense experience. And always after such experiences, when I was back among people, I felt I had been reborn.’ – Reinhold Messner

‘Doubt is the brother of shame.’ – Erik Erikson

‘My brother’s death picked up my life and put it down somewhere else. I had an image of myself in my mind as a working artist, and when he died, all of that changed.’ – Yance Ford

‘After a stage in our marriage, me and Bob had passed being husband and wife… We came to be brother and sister and I had to accept his other sweethearts and the children they gave him.’ – Rita Marley

‘Tragedy struck the family when I was 10 days old. My eldest brother was killed in a car accident. He was six. My grandmother survived the incident, but the loss devastated my parents. I think they went into shock for a couple of years.’ – Sofia Helin

‘My big brother Ryan was funny and unfailingly kind. He was one of the most talented musicians you might encounte, and had a prodigious ability to pick up any instrument and play it by ear within the span of a single day.’ – Rachel Hollis

‘As a parent who is also a journalist, when I talk to the brother and the sister of a victim or the parent of a victim, I put myself in their position and imagine what would it be like if that happened to me.’ – Chris Hansen

‘Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says.’ – John Harvey Kellogg

‘Love is what makes the world go around. I know it’s a big cliche to use, but it is the absolute truth. There is nothing else like it. I know that is what everybody is striving to feel: in relationships, in brother- and sisterhood, and in all of the things that we aspire to have in our lives.’ – Gladys Knight

‘I have never laughed as much as I did when watching ‘Big Brother.” – Davina McCall

‘I have a collage of pictures of my dad holding my brother and me. I look at that before every game just to remind me about having no fear or regrets and to go out and enjoy the moment, because I know how precious life is.’ – Chris Smalling

‘I was drawing before I did music, but me, I’m a dilettante. I jump into everything until I find one thing that I enjoy more than others. Rap was something that was always there because my brother used to rap – piano and musical instruments is something I learnt on the way.’ – Santan Dave

‘We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.’ – Maya Lin

‘When I was 4 years old, my brother and sister died of hunger, so I achieved my success through confidence, self-motivation and my hard work.’ – Chen Guangbiao

‘I once termed my sense of dress as ‘urban farmer’ and that became a perennial source of bullying from my friends, particularly my brother.’ – Alexander Gilkes

‘The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.’ – Stewart Udall

‘My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself.’ – Trevor Huddleston

‘Being pretty on the inside means you don’t hit your brother and you eat all your peas – that’s what my grandma taught me.’ – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

‘Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.’ – Bono

‘As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by ‘survival of the fittest.” – Bill Cosby

‘As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet’s mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.’ – John Keble

‘If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.’ – Scott McNealy

‘They’re saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger.’ – Craig Kilborn

‘The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.’ – Tennessee Williams

‘In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of ‘freedom’, like a bastard brother of reform.’ – Wyndham Lewis

‘We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother’s shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.’ – Mary McCarthy

‘If you like your brother and he’s prospering, you’ll be pleased for him.’ – Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

‘I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs.’ – Franka Potente

‘My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.’ – Conrad Veidt

‘People go back to the stuff that doesn’t cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don’t have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.’ – Frank Black

‘My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the ’30s and ’40s. I liked scary books.’ – Alejandro Amenabar

‘Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal.’ – Anna Chlumsky

‘No life’s worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.’ – Michael Franti

‘I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I’ll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.’ – Stevie Nicks

‘I created the Women’s Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don’t need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.’ – Sun Myung Moon

‘I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw that she broke down and cried. I never wanted to hurt my mother, so I kept away from drugs.’ – Ving Rhames

‘One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.’ – Caroline Kennedy

‘I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.’ – Harold Nicholas

‘I’m sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I’m bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor – a real person.’ – Tim Roth

‘My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn’t think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?’ – Andy Kaufman

‘I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we’ll ever see.’ – Jack Lemmon

‘I don’t want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn’t getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn’t really a priority.’ – Jack Osbourne

‘I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.’ – Mila Kunis

‘My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you’re a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.’ – Mila Kunis

‘When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street… except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.’ – Wally Lamb

‘For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.’ – Tammy Bruce

‘And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.’ – Jean Ingelow

‘My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.’ – Joan Van Ark

‘Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.’ – Louis Farrakhan

‘Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.’ – Phyllis Schlafly

‘Foreman told Ray to plead guilty and he’d then give his brother $500, if Ray didn’t cause any problems at the guilty plea hearing, and he could take that $500 and hire a lawyer to set aside the plea. Foreman actually put that in writing.’ – William Pepper

‘Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?’ – Andrew Shue

‘It’s part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we’d be at each other’s throats.’ – Alex Van Halen

‘My brother and I are always trying to figure out a way to work again together.’ – Beau Bridges

‘My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other’s houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.’ – Beau Bridges

‘My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.’ – Beau Bridges

‘And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.’ – Beau Bridges

‘I didn’t want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.’ – Bob Crosby

‘I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility.’ – Bob Crosby

‘Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone – even my older brother.’ – Dwayne Hickman

‘My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.’ – Louis Prima

‘When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too.’ – Mackenzie Astin

‘In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.’ – Martin Chemnitz

‘I watched Italia ’90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on… It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.’ – Steven Gerrard

‘P.C. is just too Big Brother – telling me how I should act and feel.’ – Johnny Kelly

‘I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.’ – Cornelia Funke

‘Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.’ – Eric Allin Cornell

‘Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.’ – Frederick Sanger

‘I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard.’ – Joseph Stiglitz

‘I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.’ – Chad Smith

‘The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.’ – William C. Kirby

‘I’ve seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother’s the more musical one really.’ – Colin Greenwood

‘I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.’ – Jimmy Carl Black

‘When I came into the WWF, the first thing I really didn’t want to have was being Bret Hart’s little brother.’ – Owen Hart

‘I’d come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart’s little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen’s going to get squashed.’ – Owen Hart

‘If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn’t have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.’ – Owen Hart

‘It’s such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.’ – Sun Ra

‘Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.’ – Jeremy London

‘My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.’ – Jeremy London

‘I remember when I was a little boy my father didn’t love me; he couldn’t. He loved my older brother but he couldn’t love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.’ – Keith Miller

‘I know my brother. Michael, he’s not that kind of person. He doesn’t do that. That’s all a lie on him.’ – Jackie Jackson

‘Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.’ – John Sergeant Wise

‘There’s a lot of interest there in the missions that I fly on and the ones my brother’s involved with.’ – Mark Kelly

‘At first it was my brother’s songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.’ – Gwen Stefani

‘Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.’ – Jeffrey Jones

‘My brother and I had saved $15,000 by working many years nailing fruit crates together.’ – Robert Mondavi

‘Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.’ – Shawn Ashmore

‘Yeah, I started when I was 6 years old. My brother and sister would get all of these presents at Christmas time from the cast and crew of their show and I was jealous. So I decided that I had to become an actor.’ – Sara Gilbert

‘I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it’s the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That’s what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn’t think that this is about making money, then they’re crazy.’ – Montel Williams

‘It was a real honor to be able to work with someone like that that I’ve been watching since I was a kid. I mean, to play his brother left some people scratching their heads but something about it really worked.’ – Jared Leto

‘I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.’ – Shimon Peres

‘I’ve always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn’t matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us.’ – Sigourney Weaver

‘The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.’ – Erich von Stroheim

‘I think I’ve always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.’ – Amy Tan

‘He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.’ – Barbara Castle

‘To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.’ – E. Stanley Jones

‘Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.’ – Joel Hodgson

‘My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.’ – Dorothy Hamill

‘So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.’ – Anna Louise Strong

‘Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me.’ – Robin Wright

‘We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.’ – Chief Joseph

‘It’s a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.’ – Patricia Heaton

‘My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom’s cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.’ – Peter Agre

‘I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister.’ – Lawrence R. Klein

‘But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.’ – Tobias Wolff

‘I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I’d allow him to be Moses and I’d be Moses’ brother Aaron, picking his arms up and padding along behind him.’ – June Carter Cash

‘We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.’ – Quincy Jones

‘I got tackled once in a movie theater. I was with my mom and brother, and then suddenly I got hit from behind and sort of sprawled out on the candy counter.’ – Scott Wolf

‘There are so many people I would love to work with, like Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Gary Oldman – maybe Tom Cruise. I wanna play his brother in something – so call my agent!’ – Scott Wolf

‘I plan to go to college in Southampton, a fishery studies college. Again, my brother was down there about two years ago and he said it was great, so I’m looking forward to that.’ – Tom Felton

‘Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.’ – Gregg Allman

‘Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.’ – Kevin Eubanks

‘I had always thought of Chris as my kid brother and watching how this kid, as I still thought of him, had affected so many people’s lives around the world was incredible.’ – Margot Kidder

‘One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn’t need contributions.’ – Pierre Salinger

‘I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.’ – Daniel Berrigan

‘Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it.’ – Freddie Hubbard

‘For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.’ – Laurence Housman

‘My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books – of poems – better than all mine put together.’ – Laurence Housman

‘Basically, at some point, one day maybe you can expect to hear some of my music. I haven’t really done that yet because my younger brother is a musician and really talented and I want him to come out with his music first.’ – Stephen Dorff

‘You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He’s like my best friend and my big brother.’ – Ted Demme

‘My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.’ – Chuck Mangione

‘If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices.’ – Michael Schenker

‘Luckily I have a brother who looks after my administration and my money, because I’m a total spendthrift.’ – Soundarya

‘My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his.’ – Thomas Keneally

‘I keep referring to them in the plural but all I’m dealing with is Bob. I don’t know where Harvey fits in the equation. He was very present at the beginning, winding his brother up. I don’t know where he is now.’ – Terry Gilliam

‘I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.’ – Francis Ford Coppola

‘I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.’ – Dorothy Day

‘I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.’ – Flavius Josephus

‘My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father’s estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein.’ – Margaret Cavendish

‘At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.’ – Ernst Toller

‘I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.’ – Charlie Sheen

‘I have a brother who’s a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world.’ – Kathleen Turner

‘I’ve made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It’s melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.’ – Kevin Bacon

‘My brother Larry. He taught me how hard work and dedication to the game was the only way to make it. He’s taken care of all my business activities for me and my family for many years, and I thank him for that.’ – Robin Yount

‘Well, I mean, you have an emotion, you want to express it. You don’t just look in the camera and do it. You want to hide from the embarrassment of your brother saying you’re not allowed to come into my town.’ – Anthony Quinn

‘My brother never had me to dinner in his life.’ – Burt Lancaster

‘My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.’ – Pat Metheny

‘There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.’ – Frederic William Farrar

‘I’d say we do reach somewhat of a younger audience, but I think for the most part that younger audience is picking our music up from a brother or sister or even parent, who is turning them onto the band.’ – Alex Lifeson

‘I’m writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I’ve brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.’ – Phil Collins

‘I have, in my partner George Roberts, a person who is the most wonderful man in the world to me. He’s like a brother to me. Creating with him, being side by side with him, in whatever we try to do, is a real pleasure to me.’ – Henry Kravis

‘Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.’ – Shelby Foote

‘What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.’ – Gene Tierney

‘Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father’s fury – once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.’ – Tatum O’Neal

‘My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.’ – Kristin Hersh

‘But my brother Joey was there, and my sister Tina Nina Minnelli was there.’ – Liza Minnelli

‘I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.’ – Jeremy Irons

‘I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said – well, I didn’t have any money.’ – George J. Mitchell

‘My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.’ – Douglass North

‘I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.’ – Steve Case

‘My singing is my hobby. It’s me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.’ – Taryn Manning

‘As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn’t understand it and would try to talk him out of it.’ – Taryn Manning

‘I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.’ – Taryn Manning

‘I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I’d go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.’ – Taryn Manning

‘I’m definitely the worker. My brother is the jokester.’ – Taryn Manning

‘My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created… what power that was!’ – Lynn Johnston

‘I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.’ – Joe Eszterhas

‘I’m all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But if I’m going to stab my gay brother in the back who isn’t butch and who maybe acts a little bit more effeminate, what good is that?’ – Kyan Douglas

‘My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.’ – Jimmy Chamberlin

‘My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn’t understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.’ – Jimmy Chamberlin

‘After Lock, Stock, all these really nasty small town characters came knocking at my door trying to tell me stories, and somehow I ended up with this guy whose brother was feeding people to pigs, and that’s what he did to get rid of people.’ – Guy Ritchie

‘In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.’ – Verne Troyer

‘My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro’ alone.’ – Picabo Street

‘I have always found it difficult to wait for things – whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.’ – Anna Neagle

‘We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.’ – Carlos Alazraqui

‘In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.’ – Godfrey Reggio

‘My brother’s been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.’ – Tina Yothers

‘You know, it comes from my mother’s side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.’ – Mel Tillis

‘I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.’ – Suzi Quatro

‘I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.’ – Malcolm Boyd

‘Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that’s what it is.’ – Nigel Kneale

‘My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.’ – Pierre Loti

‘The North African mule talks always of his mother’s brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.’ – Clifford Geertz

‘Well, financially it’s a little bit better. But it’s better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of – it’s allowed me to buy a house. And I’ve been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that’s nice.’ – Clay Aiken

‘I haven’t seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid.’ – John McEnroe

‘My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.’ – Wynton Marsalis

‘We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.’ – Eric Morecambe

‘My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C.’ – Tracy Austin

‘Big Brother is watching… look busy.’ – Brandon Boyd

‘When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.’ – Hesiod

‘With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.’ – Matt Drudge

‘The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I’ve gotten. I don’t feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.’ – Ralph Stanley

‘Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.’ – Germaine Greer

‘Zac Efron is like a brother who’s just goofy and crazy. He plays a lot of practical jokes.’ – Ashley Tisdale

‘I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen.’ – Vanessa Hudgens

‘In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, ‘Have a little faith.’ In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds.’ – Wentworth Miller

‘I’m a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother’s group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I’m a woman’s woman. I never understood women who don’t have woman friends.’ – Naomi Watts

‘I didn’t set out to be famous; if I’d wanted that, I would have gone on ‘Big Brother.” – Sam Worthington

‘My brother Cody is 19. He wants to stay out of the limelight and become a lawyer. I want him to be an entertainment lawyer, so he can help me out!’ – Lindsay Lohan

‘I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, ‘Do you need help, brother?’ And $1 fell into my hat!’ – Ian Mckellen

‘I was a tomboy and I didn’t have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.’ – Olivia Wilde

‘My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.’ – Fiona Shaw

‘My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back.’ – Julie Walters

‘Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!’ – Charles Kelley

‘My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.’ – Lev Yilmaz

‘I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak and now he lives in a little village in New Hampshire and he’s a baker.’ – Vincent Kartheiser

‘I grew up in a pretty gay world – my brother’s gay and he’s been married to a man for 20 years, which is like 60 in straight-people years.’ – Kevin Smith

‘I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.’ – Jean Dujardin

‘I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother’s footsteps and obtained my pilot’s license.’ – Ellen Ochoa

‘My character’s kind of grown up with Katniss. The beginning of the story, they’re more or less brother and sister than anything. They’re best friends. They’ve been keeping each other alive. It’s a little frustrating, for the character. As the character, not as me.’ – Liam Hemsworth

‘What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It’s biblical, it’s huge. It’s so personal.’ – Emilio Estevez

‘When I was 8, my favorite toy was a stapler. My brother was afraid of me.’ – Emily Procter

‘There was a great strain in our family because my father didn’t want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don’t know why. Maybe it was shame. I don’t know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.’ – Carol Vorderman

‘I was very troubled, yes. Me and my brother both – we were troubled and troublemakers.’ – Chloe Sevigny

‘Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.’ – Jon Heder

‘There have been times when I’ve reflected on my international career and just thought: ‘Well that was a massive waste of time.’ Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.’ – Gary Neville

‘We all have, in my family, what we call the ‘Vorderman bottom’ – a sticky out, bigger-than-normal, signature, of the rear variety. It’s been a family joke all our lives – even my lovely brother has one. I know the lines to all the good singalong big bum songs.’ – Carol Vorderman

‘It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn’t!’ – Christine Taylor

‘I’m not taking maternity leave from ‘Big Brother.’ I e-mailed my boss over there this weekend and I said, ‘Don’t worry. I can still do the show!’ – Julie Chen

‘After I started getting criticism for doing ‘Big Brother,’ someone told me that Hugh Downs used to host ‘Concentration’ and Mike Wallace used to do ‘The Big Surprise.’ I thought, Huh, maybe that door isn’t sealed shut if I want to do ’60 Minutes’ one day.’ – Julie Chen

‘Other actors don’t get asked about their brothers or sisters, so why do I have to always answer questions about having a twin brother? I suppose it’s interesting for everybody other than me.’ – Luke Treadaway

‘My brother Trev went to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, and he used to do his monologues and stuff and rehearse in our apartment. So I used to hear him all the time doing these things over and over and over. And when I was a little girl, I used to soak up everything – like anything anyone did, I soaked it up.’ – Chloe Grace Moretz

‘My brother Trevor is theatrically trained. I used to watch him when I was younger and I was in love with it. It just seemed really fun to be someone else. So I begged my mom; she was hesitant, but she eventually allowed me. And it turned out well, I guess.’ – Chloe Grace Moretz

‘I had lost relationships with my dad, my brother and sister and I was just like, you know what, this is definitely the time to just get it together and so that’s what I did.’ – Nicole Richie

‘I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.’ – Curtis Joseph

‘I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, ‘Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,’ and he would high-five me and say, ‘Way to go.” – Sara Blakely

‘Working with my brother is something that I’ve always wanted to do. He’s one of my best friends.’ – Matt Czuchry

‘I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room.’ – Linda Cardellini

‘Sometimes it’s so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents’ house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I’m wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.’ – Carey Mulligan

‘I remember my brother Nash had just directed me in ‘The Square,’ and I was sitting in Australia going: ‘No one’s called me about working for ages. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get another job.” – Joel Edgerton

‘My brother and I are best friends.’ – Joel Edgerton

‘I’ve been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it’s all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.’ – Diana Lopez

‘You know, me winning two gold medals, going for a third one, that’s nice. But being there with Mark and my sister, and my brother being the coach, it’s a dream come true. It’s going to be awesome.’ – Diana Lopez

‘I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I’m dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They’re nowhere. I know they’re nowhere and they don’t exist, but if nowhere means that’s where they are, that’s where I want to be.’ – Maurice Sendak

‘My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn’t want the same thing to happen to another young kid.’ – Pedro Martinez

‘From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I’d use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.’ – Melissa George

‘I always wanted a little brother because I felt like the little brother had to do everything.’ – Paul Pierce

‘Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my – my brother and I both loved sports.’ – Delta Goodrem

‘I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it – the music that went along with it.’ – Mike Shinoda

‘It’s time for a brother to be Bond.’ – Sean Patrick Thomas

‘I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.’ – Shaun White

‘I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn’t get in bad, bad trouble.’ – Paul Giamatti

‘I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don’t know if I will ever get over it.’ – Giada De Laurentiis

‘I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.’ – Joaquin Phoenix

‘I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.’ – Shiri Appleby

‘It’s time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!’ – Mitt Romney

‘I’m probably a bit of a cheeky grandson, like my brother as well. We both take the mickey a bit too much.’ – Prince William

‘My oldest brother was a big influence on the films I watched as a kid.’ – Seann William Scott

‘Celebrity culture, it’s everywhere, isn’t it? It’s reality TV, Big Brother. I didn’t become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn’t want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?’ – Ryan Giggs

‘My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, he became a father figure to me. I would have done anything for my brother – I loved him so much.’ – Gregg Allman

‘There is nothing to be compared to this, ’cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.’ – Jermaine Jackson

‘I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.’ – Eddie Van Halen

‘With brothers you become friends. Some you hang out with more than others. You talk to one about the other a little more. You get mad at them. Then, you love them. Then, you apologize. You have to apologize whether you want to or not. You have to. That’s your brother.’ – Tito Jackson

‘My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.’ – Trevor Phillips

”Macbeth’ was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me, coming home from school and telling me about it. He was the one that really got me going.’ – Alan Cumming

‘I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.’ – Alexander Wang

‘I love my brother. I miss my brother.’ – Randy Quaid

‘My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.’ – Renee Fleming

‘Big brother listening in on your phone calls – I got a problem with that.’ – Roger Stone

‘You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he’s still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.’ – Sam Raimi

‘I keep my skin – especially on my face and neck – out of the sun. My brother died of melanoma eight years ago, and I’ve got SPF on all the time, 24-7. It makes you realize, the sun is a wonderful thing, but it can be a very devastating thing. So sunscreen is key, and a lot of laughter, too.’ – Giada De Laurentiis

‘Being a son, brother, uncle and brother-in-law is all I care about.’ – Chris Burke

‘My parents didn’t give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like ‘go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don’t come crying to us when you get scratched. You’ve got prosthetic legs – that’s very nice.” – Oscar Pistorius

‘I feel like I’m really blessed and lucky that I have a very good social life outside of the gym, and I have a really amazing family. My parents are so supportive. I have a younger brother and two younger sisters, and they’re really awesome. So I feel like I get the best of both worlds.’ – Aly Raisman

‘My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn’t have been able to do. But then again, we’ve also been able to live a normal life as well.’ – Zara Phillips

‘People find themselves in ruts all the time. You’re in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you’re OK with it, there’s nothing wrong with that. But if you’ve got unease, then you’ve got to make a change.’ – Jeremy Renner

‘When I was in Congress, I worked with Joe Kennedy to rename the Justice Department for Bobby, and when I retired, Teddy Kennedy sent me this Roy Lichtenstein print of his brother, inscribed: ‘Bobby would have been proud of you.” – Joe Scarborough

‘My brother went on to have a long and sordid career.’ – Darrell Issa

‘The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.’ – Bill Cosby

‘My brother is really, really slow.’ – Usain Bolt

‘Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.’ – Chris Christie

‘I’d pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.’ – Sam Brownback

‘My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love.’ – Hope Solo

‘I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.’ – Gail Devers

‘My family moved – first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.’ – Greg Kinnear

‘My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.’ – Julian Castro

‘My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.’ – Jeb Bush

‘I don’t have a brother in real life.’ – Louis C. K.

‘I’ve an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women – my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.’ – Cate Blanchett

‘One day my dad would say, ‘OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.’ And that’s how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.’ – Caroline Wozniacki

‘My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday; I got a .22. He got a hunting knife; I got a hunting knife.’ – Stephanie Cutter

‘My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.’ – Billie Joe Armstrong

‘I didn’t have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.’ – Ville Valo

‘In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you’re just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you’ve got a twin brother who’s also a stand-up.’ – Eddie Izzard

‘I’m from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.’ – Kat Dennings

‘I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.’ – Kat Dennings

‘I never really had to deal with a death in the family, let alone my brother.’ – Torrey Smith

‘My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of ‘The Little Mermaid.” – Ariel Winter

‘Some people ask me whether I’m a ‘mama’s girl’ or a ‘papa’s girl.’ I’m nobody’s girl. My brother clings to our parents; I’m the one shoving them out the door.’ – Hayden Panettiere

‘I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can’t claim to be like a comic book geek.’ – Anna Kendrick

‘My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents… They treated us like adults.’ – Henry Louis Gates

‘Brother Colm is one of the best coaches who’s ever been here in Kenya. He’s been, of course, my coach since I started running. He saw me in high school when I was still doing 400, and 200 meters. He decided for me to join his club and we’d been training for one month. That is when he saw me and he thought I could do a good 800.’ – David Rudisha

‘Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president’s campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother’s keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of ‘The New York Times.’ But none of them are touching it.’ – Dinesh D’Souza

‘We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.’ – Bonnie Raitt

‘The short story is still like the novel’s wayward younger brother, we know that it’s not respectable – but I think that can also add to the glory of it.’ – Neil Gaiman

‘Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you’re a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you’re at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it’s your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.’ – Anne Lamott

‘My wife is the host of ‘Big Brother.’ Her name is Julie Chen, and she’ll say, ‘Da da da, but first we do this.’ So they mashed together her saying ‘but first’ a couple dozen times. Literally. In different outfits. And when you cut it together like that, it appears very robotlike. They called her the Chenbot.’ – Leslie Moonves

‘If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.’ – Peter Welch

‘The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When people come over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, ‘Oh yeah!’ The whole time you’re playing this machine it’s yelling and screaming at you, ‘What you gonna do, brother?!’ I think that’s the coolest.’ – Hulk Hogan

‘My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he’s 33 and being a professional while I’m playing soccer with my friends. Ha!’ – Alanis Morissette

‘I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don’t think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community.’ – Ernest Gaines

‘My big brother still thinks he’s a better singer than me.’ – Rod Stewart

‘My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.’ – Gwen Stefani

‘I don’t deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that’s one thing I am constantly working on – pain management.’ – James Belushi

‘I don’t know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn’t know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, ‘What do you think is so funny?” – James Belushi

‘People are always coming up to me and saying, ‘I love you, love your work.’ And then the next sentence is, ‘I loved your brother.’ John made people laugh, and laughter is a powerful thing.’ – James Belushi

‘I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of ‘Dallas.” – Larry Hagman

‘You know, my brother won’t walk out of a restaurant with me anymore because he doesn’t want to be linked to me as my new ‘mystery man.’ Same with my close guy friends.’ – Ashley Greene

‘I definitely think that females have a harder time. It’s a lot harder to be a girl because you’re always in your head. I’ve heard my brother go and take it out on the football as he says. Whereas girls would rather sit down and over think things.’ – Nikki Reed

‘My little brother is autistic, so I would love to be involved in a charity for autism, but I haven’t found the right one yet.’ – Nikki Reed

‘I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player’s brother’s bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.’ – Nate Ruess

‘I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the ‘permanent quarterback.’ I didn’t know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.’ – Junior Seau

‘I hate these reality TV shows where people walk off Big Brother and think they’re A-list celebrities when they’ve done nothing in their lives, it really does my head in.’ – Kevin Pietersen

‘My father’s family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn’t a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.’ – Ice T

‘My sisters are stronger and my brother’s bigger than me.’ – Adam Sandler

‘I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.’ – Vin Diesel

‘I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president’s brother should adopt.’ – Billy Carter

‘My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.’ – Doris Lessing

‘My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I’ve actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.’ – John Malkovich

‘I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly… and I want it to be for my brother.’ – Maurice Sendak

‘I don’t believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.’ – Maurice Sendak

‘I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a ‘brother.” – Tommy Chong

‘Daniel, my big brother, is eight years older. I’m lucky he didn’t mind hanging out with his little sister and my younger brother.’ – Samantha Stosur

‘My brother always teases me about my forehead: ‘I could eat off it!” – Christina Ricci

‘My brother asked me once, ‘Are you a misanthrope?’ And I said, ‘No, I just find people irritating.” – Craig Kilborn

‘I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to stovepipes. He was the first drummer in the Gil Evans Orchestra, so you’ve got to know how great he was.’ – Dave Brubeck

‘I was into all kinds of music as a teen – country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.’ – Martina McBride

‘My older brother was into Creedence Clearwater Revival and ZZ Top, and my sister was into pop radio. So somewhere along the line, I got into Ozzy Osbourne, REO Speedwagon, Heart, Pat Benetar, Journey.’ – Martina McBride

‘When I was 14 I would pick up my brother’s bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.’ – Steve Burns

‘When there’s an accident, we all have to slow down and watch the accident. We all have to be a little voyeuristic. I mean, look at the world we live in now, with all these ‘Big Brother’ shows. We’re all a bunch of voyeuristic people.’ – Donny Osmond

‘I’ve always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.’ – Duane Chapman

‘My brother’s a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.’ – Dominic Monaghan

‘When you’re on TV and in people’s houses – it’s great that anybody watches anything you’ve done, but you feel as though you’re being watched by Big Brother sometimes. Even if people have no idea who you are, you get the feeling you’re being watched.’ – Nicholas Hoult

‘I’ve got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody’s equal.’ – Nicholas Hoult

‘If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn’t have ended up being a filmmaker.’ – M. Night Shyamalan

‘Diabetes is a disease that’s had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure.’ – Izabel Goulart

‘When you’re picking a basketball team, you’ll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you’re playing the odds.’ – Adam Carolla

‘My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.’ – Adrianne Palicki

‘My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me – well, I am perfect! – Jenny Eclair’ – Jenny Eclair

‘As much as I love and respect my brother, I’m doing my best to distance myself from him and kind of show people that, even though we do look similar and have similar mannerisms, we are completely different.’ – Dave Franco

‘For example, for me, my brother helped me get a manager, which I don’t take for granted. It’s tough getting a manager, let alone one that actually cares about you and is smart. But from there, no one’s going to cast me just because I’m James Franco’s little brother.’ – Dave Franco

‘My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we’ve been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.’ – Ty Burrell

‘My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.’ – Felicity Jones

‘Miami Beach – that’s where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother – a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate – my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.’ – Brett Ratner

‘The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I’m afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in ‘The Nation’ or not. But you want to participate.’ – Tony Kushner

‘I come from a family of all women and one boy, my brother. We’re all women and we’re all precocious and opinionated and like to have fun and we always had friends in the house and we were always, like, half-naked.’ – Jemima Kirke

‘The last episode of Dallas was in ‘1991.’ Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.’ – Patrick Duffy

‘My brother was an improviser. He’s now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.’ – Jake Johnson

‘I was called Matt Dillon’s brother my whole career basically until ‘Entourage’ broke me free of that and now people call me Johnny Drama instead.’ – Kevin Dillon

‘I grew up in Michigan, so I played hockey, football and basketball. I played a little bit of lacrosse, too. My brother played more lacrosse and ran track.’ – Steven Yeun

‘Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two – a brother and sister.’ – Jason Gann

‘Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.’ – Sally Hawkins

‘I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. ‘Can Helen Stop Smoking’ was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit.’ – T’Keyah Crystal Keymah

‘Well, when you’re the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, ‘Well, let’s hope he doesn’t kill a guy.” – Chris O’Dowd

‘I was kind of an outcast in school ’cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn’t know what to make of me.’ – Christina Perri

‘I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer.’ – Mary Elizabeth Winstead

‘I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.’ – Juan Manuel Marquez

‘I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and sister. It was really a struggle, and knowing that there were people out there with tight-knit families really made my childhood an unfortunate one.’ – Victor Ortiz

‘The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out there are facing, or the brother and sister, or the brother and brother are facing. Relationships are universal.’ – Michael Ealy

‘When I was younger I didn’t have much financially, like we couldn’t afford a lot of stuff and I remember seeing little girls’ rooms on TV and they’d all be pink. I didn’t have my own room, I shared with my brother, so I would have this daydream and imagine that one day I could have my own room and it would all be pink, like Cinderella’s.’ – Nicki Minaj

‘My brother said ‘I want to start acting,’ and me and my sister just said, ‘Oh we’ll try it, we’ll see.’ It was just one of those things – we were just like, ‘Oh, we’ll see what happens.” – Willow Shields

‘For ‘The Haunting Hour,’ I thought it would be a lot of fun. It was great to play this cool kid role. My episode is called ‘The Intruders’ and my character is this mean, angry teenager because her younger brother was just born and he gets all of the attention. She’s always playing tricks on her family, and there are some cool twists.’ – Willow Shields

‘Well, my brother started acting before I did.’ – Abigail Breslin

‘My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.’ – Dan Fogler

‘I don’t want to be your hero. I want to be your brother. You know, I want to be your family member. I want to be your equal.’ – Tom Shadyac

‘My brother’s an aerospace engineer who works for Boeing, and I started thinking, ‘Well, my brother works nine hours a day at his job… What if I worked nine hours a day at being an actor?” – Brent Sexton

‘The only day I remember of my parents’ marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.’ – Ellie Goulding

‘I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don’t know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic – my brother was playing bass in the next room.’ – Ellie Goulding

‘I can’t remember a time when my mom didn’t work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners.’ – Hoda Kotb

‘I’ve always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He’s retired now. My brother is a lawyer.’ – Scott Bakula

‘Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.’ – Al Jardine

‘I did not fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I am not his employer. I do not have such authority. And even if I did, I would never fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I love Brian Wilson. We are partners. He’s my cousin by birth and my brother in music.’ – Mike Love

‘I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the massive diversion of parental attention, and the consequences of being compelled to care for their brother after I died. I wanted a genetically perfect baby, and because that was something I could control, I chose to end his life.’ – Ayelet Waldman

‘You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He’s very magnetic. He’s actually very much like ‘Castle’ in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He’s the guy with the crowd around him.’ – Nathan Fillion

‘My brother used to say that when you deal with women, it’s difficult to remove emotions from an argument. I never really knew what he meant. Then I read an article that said when it comes to emotion and logic, men’s and women’s brains are different – my brother was right! Women are very mysterious, but that’s part of their joy.’ – Nathan Fillion

‘I was born and raised in the Bronx and my grandfather and my brother Garry were huge Yankees fans. One of my first memories is of them listening to a game on the radio and screaming at the radio. My brother would cry when they lost, and when I was really little, I didn’t know why he was crying.’ – Penny Marshall

‘My brother and sister were much older. They were planned. I was not planned for. I was called the mistake, amongst other things.’ – Penny Marshall

‘Working with Omarion is pretty amazing. That’s like my brother. He’s really cool.’ – Teyana Taylor

‘So, you know, Nathaniel was my first child, born when I was 40, so, uh… And then in due course, he wanted a brother, and then I thought, ‘Oh, that’ll be bloody lucky!’ So, we ended up adopting a beautiful boy who was then five years old, from Ethiopia.’ – Geraldine Brooks

‘When I was in Beck’s world, I felt like the little sister. I’m in the big brother’s room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don’t realize you’re there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in.’ – Feist

‘I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart’s brother from another mother.’ – Jesse Tyler Ferguson

‘Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.’ – Denise Mina

‘In the ‘Garnethill’ trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O’Donnell’s dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they’re middle-class – they’re just working class because they speak with accents.’ – Denise Mina

‘I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.’ – Ali Smith

‘I want to have lots of bodyguards around me and be surrounded by beautiful women while watching my brother play at Wimbledon.’ – Alex Pettyfer

‘I just wanted to be myself and that’s why I chose to do ‘Big Brother,’ because I wanted everyone to see the real Amy Childs.’ – Amy Childs

‘I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.’ – Patsy Kensit

‘I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.’ – Ronaldinho

‘My father read ‘The New York Times,’ my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.’ – Donna Leon

‘I was born in Swindon… a place that always looked west. I found that wherever I go I love to have a room with a view of the western sky. My late brother and I, when we were small, had a room at the back of the house that overlooked the sunset; and both for he and I it was kind of magical.’ – Justin Hayward

‘The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.’ – Lily Rabe

‘My parents had five children in six years and one week, meaning that my mom was pregnant for most of the ’60s and driving carpools for most of the ’70s. When we were young, she dressed us alike so she could pick us out in crowds: identical skirts for the four girls with the color-coordinated pants for my brother.’ – Christine Pelosi

‘When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don’t have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.’ – Naomie Harris

‘I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.’ – Nonito Donaire

‘My childhood, I wouldn’t say it was bad. It helped me grow up. I stayed out of trouble. My parents taught me what’s wrong and right, and knowing that I had a little brother following me, I had to make sure I was doing the right thing so he knows what’s right, too. I was in the house nine days out of 10. There wasn’t nothing good outside for me.’ – Russell Westbrook

‘When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.’ – Yash Chopra

‘What distinguished my life from my brother’s is that my mother didn’t like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.’ – Jamaica Kincaid

‘I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a careful journal of the experience that was very helpful in terms of my sensory impressions of Africa. I have traveled quite a bit at distinct times in my life, though now that I have kids I’ve settled down.’ – Jennifer Egan

‘One of my favorites is one called ‘Rory’s Radio’ that I wrote about my brother Jeff’s best friend growing up – his name was Rory Dunigan. I dedicated my first record to my brother, who got killed in a car accident in 1999, and I really didn’t have any songs on the first album about him, nothing on a personal note.’ – Ashton Shepherd

‘I think TV is all about caring, and if you don’t care about a character in a drama or a person when they get voted out of a reality show, it’s bad TV. I wouldn’t care if you dropped a bomb on the ‘Big Brother’ house.’ – Ray Winstone

‘I’m a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I’ve more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself – I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself… Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.’ – Natalie Dormer

”Wild Swans’ showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it’s not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.’ – Katie Leung

‘My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work.’ – Marilynne Robinson

‘I’ve always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative – the story of each patient, each illness.’ – Lois Lowry

‘I know some of my memories are made up and they are far more powerful than the things that actually happened. For example, I always remember my brother posting me a copy of ‘Dubliners’ from Africa, but he says he never did.’ – John Banville

‘In Afghanistan, you don’t understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself.’ – Khaled Hosseini

‘I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends in the neighborhood. It’s what we did in the winter. Schools close down. There was not much to do.’ – Khaled Hosseini

‘My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us – clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.’ – Gary Kemp

‘I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents thought I was making it up. However, when my brother and I fabricated a story about an encounter with a bear, they believed that! So maybe I learned very early on that fiction was more interesting to listeners!’ – Sharon Creech

‘I used to watch ‘Coming to America’ every day after school. I have full-on long-running inside jokes with friends and family about different scenes in that movie alone. Also, my brother and I loved ‘The Golden Child,’ so, yeah: I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy growing up.’ – Gabourey Sidibe

‘I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, ‘You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we’re happy, so we are rich.” – John Paul DeJoria

‘My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the ‘L.A. Examiner.’ Get up at 4 o’clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school.’ – John Paul DeJoria

‘I’ve got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.’ – David Einhorn

‘Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.’ – Yusuf Hamied

‘The first complaint we hear from everyone is: ‘Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother’s eating for lunch?’ But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled – you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.’ – Jack Dorsey

‘My younger brother will remember that he received a transistor radio for Christmas. I took it apart and it never worked again.’ – Stephen Elop

‘Living in Sydney, I’ve taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.’ – Markus Zusak

‘I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.’ – Markus Zusak

‘My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.’ – Naomi Shihab Nye

‘I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.’ – Ralph Abernathy

‘My brother and I moved out to Hollywood initially to be a band, and where we lived, there was crime all over with my brother and I being the victims sometimes.’ – Troy Duffy

‘My younger brother’s death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In ‘Fallen Angels’ I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.’ – Walter Dean Myers

‘The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.’ – Anna Letitia Barbauld

‘Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymore. Before, he was fighting and loving life.’ – Marc Forster

‘Even with my father and brother dying, I didn’t quite process the grief.’ – Marc Forster

‘My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.’ – Gabriel Macht

”A League of Their Own’ had some special meaning for me, I guess – it’s about women joining together and being empowered, but also about sisters sticking together even when there’s drama and struggles. I’m really close to my two sisters and my brother, so I liked that about it.’ – Rebel Wilson

‘Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you.’ – James Salter

‘I can’t imagine having a conversation about ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ in Cambridge, Massachusetts.’ – Niall Ferguson

‘My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.’ – Martha Wainwright

‘So, I’m thinking of a name for a villain that has a sense of humor. I thought of ‘The Joker’ as a name, and as soon as I thought that, I associate it with the playing card, as my family had a tradition of champion playing; my brother was a contract champion bridge player. There were always cards around the house.’ – Jerry Robinson

‘If you have a brother or sister, tell them you love them every day – that’s the most beautiful thing. I told my sister how much I loved her every day. That’s the only reason I’m OK right now.’ – Amaury Nolasco

‘In 2002 Mom and I got a chance to act together in a play called ‘Pitching to the Star,’ with her brother, Robert Lipton. The three of us on the same stage – that was such a special experience for me.’ – Rashida Jones

‘I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody is constantly fighting with everybody and you are in the middle of the storm trying to make peace. That is your life. Making everybody work and play well together.’ – Richard Parsons

‘Your private life should be private. I reckon that’s a good thing that you talk about your work and you talk about what you’re doing, but without having to go into how your brother’s been and how your mum’s been because none of that’s really relevant.’ – Keisha Castle-Hughes

‘Growing up, we didn’t have anything. My mum wasn’t well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.’ – Rebecca Ferguson

‘I made my name and reputation DJing in hip-hop clubs in New York. ‘Celebrity DJ’ is a term that I hated. To me a celebrity DJ is someone that’s on ‘Big Brother’ or in some kind of B-movie who gets a gig to DJ even though they’re not talented enough to do it.’ – Mark Ronson

‘The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his life’s work.’ – Ahmet Ertegun

‘The more I worked on ‘Half Brother,’ the more it seemed to me the story was really about love in all its possible forms – how and why we decide to bestow it, or withdraw it; how we decide what is more worthy of being loved, and what is less. We are masters of conditional love.’ – Kenneth Oppel

‘We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brother’s winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.’ – Ann Hood

‘Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I’d lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore.’ – Ann Hood

‘In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family – my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.’ – Ann Hood

‘We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.’ – Meg Cabot

‘My brother has a tendency to get quite lyrical when he writes music; he gets so romantic, it’s borderline. I make it slightly more aggressive. I make the round corner a bit sharper.’ – Josephine de La Baume

‘I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents’ living room and my older brother’s practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz… a beautiful chaos.’ – Josephine de La Baume

‘My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life just to play around at home until we decided to make a record. Eventually we started having more and more songs.’ – Josephine de La Baume

”Wayne’s World’ is my all time favorite comedy. I used to watch it on VHS on repeat with my brother when I was ten years old.’ – James Lafferty

‘It’s great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family – my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship.’ – Penelope Cruz

‘All my siblings became artists. One’s a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.’ – Caio Fonseca

‘My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.’ – John Collison

‘I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father – who I had only recently met – died.’ – Bernie Mac

‘Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact.’ – Roseanne Barr

‘My brother was very important to me. And he played guitar. So that’s what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a guitar player. So he was the first one to inspire me to do something with my life. And I was so glad that he was there.’ – Bootsy Collins

‘I’m definitely lucky to have been included in some of the perks of my brother’s connections in the fashion world. It’s helpful considering I’m still like a five-year-old when it comes to shopping.’ – Skylar Astin

‘In England, I suppose I have been known to once or twice tune into ‘Big Brother’, which is a pretty terrible guilty pleasure.’ – Freddie Stroma

‘I’ve got a pretty close bond with everyone in my family. I’ve got a brother and a sister whom I’m very close to, and my parents have always been the world’s best parents.’ – Freddie Stroma

‘There was a year between school and getting going as an actor when I basically just watched films. Video shops were the new thing, and there was a good one round the corner and me and my brother just watched everything, from the horror to the European art-house.’ – Aidan Gillen

‘I am inherently a little brother – that’s just my nature. It has to do with my sister being very strong and wanting to protect me. It’s the natural order of things.’ – Jake Gyllenhaal

‘I went through that phase where I wanted to almost be different than my brother. Just kind of argued a little louder or if there was a curfew, I always came in a little later than I was supposed to. If it was set for 12, I would come in at 12:45. I would test the limits a little. There was no real reason and I grew out of it, eventually.’ – Eli Manning

‘My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister were older, so I was raised by four adults.’ – Annabeth Gish

‘I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was blown away by the dinosaurs.’ – David H. Koch

‘Every year since I was very small, my family – Mum, Dad, sister Charlie-Ann and brother Stephen – and I have been holidaying in Carvoeiro in the Algarve, so that has very fond memories for me.’ – Pixie Lott

‘My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.’ – Tadashi Shoji

‘My heroes were Eddie Van Halen – especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV – Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff.’ – Dimebag Darrell

‘I’m probably a bit of a cheeky grandson like my brother as well. We both tend to take the mickey a bit much.’ – Prince William

‘If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don’t remember the score, you don’t remember a home run, you don’t remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date?’ – Mark Cuban

‘You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.’ – Bruno Mars

‘Narciso Rodriguez was my first fashion big brother. He made my wedding dress, which was wonderful.’ – Claire Danes

‘The first music I ever got into was the ’80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade.’ – Conor Oberst

‘Life is precious, and when someone dies it’s an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn’t. It really crushed him.’ – Val Kilmer

‘Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I’d come back and say, ‘Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?” – Jimmy Connors

‘My mother didn’t want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.’ – Donatella Versace

‘I don’t like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.’ – Eva Zeisel

‘My brother was the consummate Nebraska boy – the football star who went to the university, was president of his fraternity, hunted with my dad all the time.’ – Evan Williams

‘As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurious to both of us. To me, as tending to produce in my mind a feeling of self-elevation; and to my brother, by creating in him a dislike both towards my father and me.’ – George Muller

‘My father, who educated his children on worldly principles, gave us much money, considering our age; not in order that we might spend it, but, as he said, to accustom us to possess money without spending it. The result was, that it led me and my brother into many sins.’ – George Muller

‘I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn’t turn to them for help. I didn’t have an older brother.’ – Mark E. Smith

‘Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best and love us most and will not leave one thing undone for our eternal welfare. Should we not love them for it and honor them first?’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘The closest person in the industry to me who is like a big brother is Tyrese. He gives me a lot of good advice. We both do the same things. We’re both from the same background.’ – Marques Houston

‘I watch political shows for a number of weeks in a row, and all I see are guys arguing with each other over issues I have no idea about. My brother, he loves war-torn places. My dad would always read the paper and tell me I should watch CNN, but I usually wind up watching ‘Breaking Bad.” – Norm MacDonald

‘Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice – the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.’ – Allen West

‘Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.’ – Candis Cayne

‘My first conscious thought of ‘I should be like that and not like this’ was probably at about six, and I was playing with… I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.’ – Candis Cayne

‘I listen to a lot of Chicago blues, I suppose. It reminds me of growing up, I guess. But I’m also obsessed by close-harmony groups. Actually, I’m fascinated particularly by brother duos, how they blend together. The Everly Brothers, the Stanley Brothers, The McQuarrys. There’s something inherently magical about harmony.’ – John C. Reilly

‘When I first joined SAG, there was another John Reilly. My dad was John Reilly, too, but growing up I was John John. Nobody in life calls me John C. It’s more like, ‘Hey you, Step Brother!” – John C. Reilly

‘I was more like a middle child. My youngest brother was the baby, so he got all the attention that the baby gets. And my older brothers were getting into so much trouble that I was left in the middle, doing plays. I was up to no good, but my mother didn’t know it!’ – John C. Reilly

‘When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn’t afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me.’ – Kirsten Dunst

‘In high school I had a boyfriend who was super into rap, so I was into Too $hort and Wu-Tang for a little while. And my best friend’s older brother would sometimes drive us home in this pimped-out truck, and he’d play all his dirty rap music. We thought we were really cool.’ – Kirsten Dunst

‘Big Brother doesn’t like all these Little Brothers looking at it.’ – Hasan M. Elahi

‘New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It’s basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it’s what we’re going to allow.’ – Jesse Schell

‘After months of playing air guitar to ‘Free Bird’, what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of ‘Star Spangled Banner’ and ‘Purple Haze.’ My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, ‘I’m going to get a guitar.” – Kirk Hammett

‘My brother was a huge Charles Barkley fan – my brother went to Miami. He played power forward, and he always used to tell me stories about Barkley and college. And I watched Barkley growing up. I loved what he brought to the game. His toughness and just his attitude, being as strong he was.’ – Paul Pierce

‘A Western woman is not her brother’s or her father’s property. She’s just herself. She can choose her own lifestyle. But in a Muslim family, the honor of the man is between the legs of a woman.’ – Ayaan Hirsi Ali

‘I kind of got into TV when I went to visit a show my brother was working on. Soon I got the second lead in a TV show.’ – Godfrey Gao

‘I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We’ve always had different aspirations.’ – Jennifer Stone

‘When people talk about televisual phenomena such as ‘Big Brother,’ I haven’t a clue what they’re talking about. Having said that, if I’m staying in a hotel and there’s a television in there, I’ll go straight to it and watch it as if it’s some incredible new invention.’ – Jodhi May

‘The dream would be to work with my two favorite actors, Daniel Day Lewis and Cate Blanchett. Or playing Joaquin Phoenix’s brother in a film. Basically anything where I get to act opposite actors like these; ones who bring a certain caliber to their work and literally morph into the character they are playing.’ – Drew Fuller

‘It’s like Canada is the little brother to the United States and one day they are going to show the world they’re just as cool as their successful big brother.’ – Dustin Milligan

‘Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.’ – Daniella Monet

‘My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference’s races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.’ – Tate Donovan

‘I am deeply saddened to hear that the man who murdered my brother, Michael Ensley, has been charged with murder again. I grieve for every family who has been victimized by this heinous individual. My prayers and love go out to the family of Demetra Doyle Heard during this trying time.’ – Niecy Nash

‘I love being around my family. I am very close to my mum, my brother, my grandmother, my aunts – we constantly poke fun at each other, but it’s all done out of love.’ – Jourdan Dunn

‘I can’t work with my brother without laughing.’ – Dick Van Dyke

‘My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn’t know it.’ – Dick Van Dyke

‘What I’ve learnt being an actor is that you’ve got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse’s friend’s brother who was having problems with his marriage.’ – Peter Capaldi

‘I was born in New York City in 1926, four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the city of Odessa in Russia.’ – Robert Fogel

‘My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. He just, he had a rough life. You know, he grew up in a boys home in the Bronx. He didn’t really know his own family. So I couldn’t hold it against him that he didn’t know how to parent. He didn’t know how to be the perfect husband. But he loved as much as he could.’ – Hope Solo

‘My wife’s brother has a little house on a small island in the Baltic Sea, and we go there at Christmas. The 30-minute crossing from the mainland to this island is the most terrifying cruise you’ll ever take. They give you a barf bag when you walk on board.’ – Nick Frost

‘Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother’s 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he’d never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head.’ – Ryan Lochte

‘My mum certainly isn’t a prude, nor is my brother, so I think I’m lucky to have a family like that.’ – Roxanne McKee

‘One of the hallmarks of the sign of Aquarius is the campaign for justice. Everybody is my brother. Justice is very important to me.’ – Morgan Fairchild

‘My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot – a good Irish name – until she died; I was just known as ‘wee one.” – Natascha McElhone

‘Mum left school at 15, and after a few years of modelling and dating jazz musicians, was married by 21 to my father, Mike Taylor, a journalist on the ‘Daily Mirror.’ They had my brother and me pretty quickly and had split up by the time I was two. I don’t really have any memories of them as a couple.’ – Natascha McElhone

‘My brother is the lead singer of The Torn, and my parents are in a country duo.’ – Sheridan Smith

‘I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brother.’ – Sheridan Smith

‘They couldn’t wait to get me out. My dad found my place, my mom helped me pack, and my brother was making architectural plans for my bedroom. It was just what you do at 18.’ – Justine Bateman

‘We had already planned my wedding when my brother passed away in 2012. When you’re grieving, you don’t necessarily want to think about something like that, but my brother told me that he wanted me to, so we went ahead and did it.’ – Yaya DaCosta

‘Every time I see my brother, I just praise God for God’s grace in his life. Because if God can change Franklin from a prodigal into a man of God, he can do it for anybody.’ – Anne Graham Lotz

‘When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to make these silly, stupid short films, which, looking back now, were probably horrible.’ – Iain De Caestecker

‘Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.’ – Pope Francis

‘Every time I’ve been to Los Angeles, I’ve hated it. My brother works there, so I usually go each year for a holiday.’ – Laurence Fox

‘I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasn’t being challenged enough, so my mom put him in the theater class. And I obviously followed him.’ – Nolan Gould

‘When I was 10 or 11, I was on this TV series called ‘Dead Man’s Gun’ and Henry Winkler was a guest star. He hung out with me and my brother the whole time. We had no idea who he was. Our parents were star struck.’ – Reece Thompson

‘Five days after the Tsarnaev brothers blew up Boston’s most sacred event, and just 24 hours after one brother was killed and the other was caught, everyone decided that it was OK to play baseball at Fenway again. The game happened on a Saturday afternoon, preceded by an emotional ceremony and many prayers.’ – Bill Simmons

‘My mom is just someone who’s easy to talk to and hang with. My sister, it’s always cool to be able to help her out with things. My brother is fun when we’re just joking and messing around. And my dad is someone who’s helpful with my music and easy to talk to about that stuff because he understands me in that sense.’ – David Archuleta

‘I think the most fun part about working on ‘Good Luck Charlie’ is spending time with everyone, honestly, because everybody on set is like my brother and sister and mom and dad. They’re so fun to be around, so that’s probably the best part about working there.’ – Bradley Steven Perry

‘For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.’ – Anne Lamott

‘Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.’ – Immaculee Ilibagiza

‘You know, I’m a father. I’m a brother. I’m a son. And I’m a grandfather. So many times I have to be the intermediary, the person to referee and help solve disputes and to protect and to guide.’ – Ruben Santiago-Hudson

‘My dad and my brother have Google alerts out on me.’ – Cassidy Freeman

‘My parents wanted me to be a doctor, and they weren’t very happy at the idea of me choosing acting as a career. Everyone in my family went to university – my older brother is a lawyer – but when they saw me for the first time at the theatre, they thought, ‘OK.’ They like it very much now.’ – Caterina Murino

‘I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am lucky that I have such a good image of family life – my father and mother are still in love, still happy.’ – Caterina Murino

‘My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. It’s great leverage; we abuse it all the time!’ – Matt Barr

‘Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.’ – Rani Mukerji

‘My brother Alan – who was seven years younger than me – died from leukemia when he was 52. He never knew a day’s good health – I wish I could have given him some of my good health. But he was always so cheerful and sweet.’ – Brian Blessed

‘I’m a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: ‘Don’t hold grudges. If you do that, you don’t lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.’ I honestly think that’s why I was able to survive and have some success.’ – Monte Irvin

‘My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He’s in jail now.’ – Dane Cook

‘I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.’ – Maya Angelou

‘My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.’ – Denis Leary

‘Arizona is the worst place to spend the summer – it’s like 125 degrees – so my mom, my brother and I would go to the beach for two months to escape the heat.’ – Emma Stone

‘For me, I’ve never been too concerned of what people think of me, so now as the youngest Baldwin brother in Hollywood making movies while simultaneously being a charismatic evangelical born again Christian who’s an evangelist – that’s a pretty crazy combination.’ – Stephen Baldwin

‘I’m a registered Independent. But my brother says it’s obvious that I’m a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the voting booth, it doesn’t matter.’ – Stephen Baldwin

‘Talk about songs that make me cry: Track 7 on the ‘Phineas and Ferb’ soundtrack, ‘Summer (Where Do We Begin?).’ When you get to the part about sitting with your brother underneath the shade of a big tree in the backyard, ohmygod. Turn on the waterworks.’ – Christopher Gorham

‘I grew up in Kentucky, so we do not have a pro team. My family was split between the Cubs and the Reds. I would say I go Cubs usually. That’s sort of where I grew up. My older brother was a huge Reds fan.’ – Maggie Lawson

‘Life itself has so much politics, why should I make it my profession? I’m just a politician’s son, not a politician myself. Two politicians, that’s my dad and elder brother, in the family are enough. I’m happy doing my own stuff in Bollywood.’ – Riteish Deshmukh

‘I kind of remember when I was young, I used to hang out with my dad sometimes. And I can remember just following him in and out of these domestic situations. Going to the grocery store, we’d go pick up my other brother, or we’d go here, go there.’ – Ryan Coogler

‘In 1998, I received treatment for my knee by an Israeli therapist. We spoke about Israel and I mentioned ‘Scooterman’ and he just froze. It was like he had met Elvis. I thought he was kidding me and then he called his brother, they yelled to each other over the phone, and then I believed him.’ – Gary David Goldberg

‘For me, it’s a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.’ – Pope Benedict XVI

‘Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one’s home.’ – Jonas Mekas

‘I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he’s innocent.’ – Michael Eric Dyson

‘I want young people to look at me and go, ‘Damn, I want to be like that brother. He sharp, he be on point. He represent black people.’ I want to make the life of the mind sexy.’ – Michael Eric Dyson

‘I would love to be a Franciscan brother. I’m just not sure I have the courage to do it.’ – Rich Mullins

‘I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties.’ – Pedro Almodovar

‘My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.’ – Pedro Almodovar

‘My brother brought home ‘At San Quentin’ when I was about 7, and we played it over and over again.’ – Chris Cornell

‘If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs – my first was at 15, at Burger King. We had to come up with ways to create an income.’ – Queen Latifah

‘I think that, to a lot of people, they don’t like my brand of whatever I do. And I think that people – the ones that like me, at least – see me as their brother or their older uncle or their friend or their next door neighbour. I am the quintessential boy next door; I feel that way.’ – Robbie Williams

‘When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.’ – Joel Madden

‘I built a studio in L.A. for me and my brother to just write every single day. And it’s been great, man.’ – Joel Madden

‘It’s always a bit much, being in a band with your brother. We fight all the time, but it’s kind of comical.’ – Joel Madden

‘When me and my brother would go to see our daddy playing, there’d be 30 people in the audience. I was only 14 or 15, but I realised something was wrong.’ – Wynton Marsalis

‘I’m riding my man Obama. I think he’s a visionary. Actually, Barack told me the first date he took Michelle to was ‘Do the Right Thing.’ I said, Thank God I made it. Otherwise you would have taken her to ‘Soul Man.’ Michelle would have been like ‘What’s wrong with this brother?” – Spike Lee

‘My brother’s a grip. My mom’s a scriptwriter. My dad’s a director. So it’s like, at heart, I’m a below-the-line girl.’ – Kristen Stewart

‘I’ve said no to ‘Celebrity Big Brother,’ ‘Strictly,’ and the American one, ‘Dancing With The Stars.’ I don’t feel it’s right for me. I’ve been asked to do reality TV a zillion times. No way. No way. Nobody’s going to get into my living room and see me there.’ – Joan Collins

‘When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.’ – Joyce Carol Oates

‘My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around or at dinner, and in 1963 he and I made up a story about a brother and a sister, Lisa and Matt, having an adventure out in the woods with animals.’ – Matt Groening

‘I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do ‘Jesus Christ Super Star’ in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.’ – Tatiana Maslany

‘My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter.’ – Tori Amos

‘My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember him playing in bands and listening to the music he was writing in the house – he’s nine years older than me.’ – Kevin Bacon

‘I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?’ – Joan Jett

‘I always thought I’d be the one to go first. The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I’m mourning my brother Phil.’ – Don Everly

‘My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.’ – Sam Abell

‘My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She’s a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She’s the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area.’ – John Lasseter

‘Steve Jobs is like a brother to me and he’s one of the founders of Pixar, and when the first iPad came out, I got one right away.’ – John Lasseter

‘We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He was actually a much stronger artistic visionary than I was.’ – Robert Crumb

‘I was a screenwriting major at Georgetown, and I was in class with some really strong writers like Jonathan Nolan, who co-wrote ‘The Dark Knight’ with Chris, his brother. He wrote ‘The Prestige,’ the story for ‘Memento.” – Mike Birbiglia

‘The reality of growing up is we changed schools so many times, my brother was my best friend. We have a five-year age gap, and my brother inspired me. He started boxing, and I just want to show that I could do things better than him.’ – Wladimir Klitschko

‘I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people’s childhoods. When I was writing ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid,’ I had a blast talking on the phone to my younger brother, Patrick, remembering all of the things that happened to our family when we were growing up.’ – Jeff Kinney

‘T.I.’s my mentor; he’s a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He’s helped me with my career.’ – Iggy Azalea

‘My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as kids. But it’s a good kind of competition; it’s not a jealousy. You always want to do your best, and if it can’t be you, you want it to be your brother or your sister, you know what I mean?’ – Janet Jackson

‘I don’t speak to my brother every week – doesn’t mean I don’t love him.’ – Kim Cattrall

‘I was not athletically inclined. I was very quiet, introverted, non-confrontational. My three older brothers were athletes – basketball, football – but I was kind of a momma’s boy. Then one day, my brother Roger encouraged me to go to the boxing gym with him. I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural.’ – Sugar Ray Leonard

‘My first crush was my brother’s best friend.’ – Jennifer Armentrout

‘I feel very responsible for my brother, and I try and protect him every chance I get.’ – Charlie Tahan

‘Dr. King said, ‘We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.’ Which says to me no matter how well I may be doing in Hollywood, if a young brother or sister in Louisiana, the South Bronx, the South Side of Chicago, South Central Los Angeles – is not doing well, then I’m not doing very well.’ – Hill Harper

‘With my first book, ‘A Letter to a Young Brother,’ I figured it would be my only book I was ever going to write. What happened with that is a lot of young men would reach out to me.’ – Hill Harper

‘My first two books, ‘Letters to a Young Brother’ and ‘Letters to a Young Sister,’ were… distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.’ – Hill Harper

‘I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn’t expect to hear that. I think it was ‘A Whole New World’ from ‘Aladdin.” – Laura Mvula

‘My brother and I spent our childhood in movie theaters screaming. I decided early on that that was the epitome of entertainment. I’m always trying for that same level of adrenaline in my books.’ – Tess Gerritsen

‘My brother often complains to me about the ‘angry Asian male’ in the United States. As a female, I haven’t encountered this, but Asian-American men are angry. They’re angry because, for so many years, they’ve been neglected as sex symbols. Asian women have it much easier, I think; we’re accepted into various circles.’ – Tess Gerritsen

‘My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.’ – Tess Gerritsen

‘I’m like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don’t know what they are talking about. I’m into rock n’ roll, like Jimi Hendrix. Not so much because of my parents, who used to play a lot of Nina Simone and older blues, but my brother and sister.’ – Georgia May Jagger

‘You gotta understand, there are two different kinds of Asians – the kind who are good at school, obey their parents, go to college – that kind of stuff. And then you have my family – me, my brother, all of my cousins – we’re just wretched people.’ – Bobby Lee

‘My brother and my dad always used to shave their hair, and I remember thinking, ‘Why can’t I do the same?” – Alice Dellal

‘I worship pianos like they are prize diamonds, and I never willfully do damage to them. But I grew up playing guitars, and you treat a guitar like a best friend or a little brother or a lover you have a tempestuous relationship with.’ – Jamie Cullum

‘My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to tell us about growing up near the Irrawaddy river and how one brother was eaten by a crocodile.’ – Jamie Cullum

‘I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver Rolex, and I actually gave it to my little brother. He wears it every day. He’s an actor, so whenever he goes to an audition, he can look down, see it, and it gives him confidence. It was a great thing to pass on.’ – Nate Berkus

‘I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted – no, strike that, I was desperate for – a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn’t pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky – exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.’ – Nate Berkus

‘My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us. I have four sisters and one brother. I’m the baby.’ – Brandon Flowers

‘Just because one brother is good and one brother is bad in the same family, we cannot say that the rest of the family is bad or good.’ – Sri Chinmoy

‘My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.’ – Jesmyn Ward

‘When I moved to London at age 16, tired of the shuffle around other people’s houses and ready to live on my own, I met my English brother and sister, who instantly claimed me as family.’ – Allegra Huston

‘Growing up, I saw my mother cry exactly once. The morning of her brother’s funeral. One long tear ran down her cheek through her make up until she caught it near her mouth and patted it dry with a tissue she pulled from inside her sleeve.’ – Kelly Corrigan

‘My older brother’s been my best friend since I can remember. I talk to him every day of my life, and anytime he’s in town we’re together. But I’m also very close with my parents. We all get along very, very well. We’ve never had fights or anything like that.’ – Mitchel Musso

‘It’s funny: over time, if you’re fortunate, you build a nice career, and you have these interesting moments, and I would not, looking back, trade any of them – ‘Red Tails,’ ’12 Years a Slave’ and ‘Undercover Brother.” – John Ridley

‘My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.’ – John Cassavetes

‘American society to me and my brother was thrilling because, first of all, the food made noise. We were so excited about Rice Krispies and Coca-Cola. We had only silent food in our country, and we loved listening to our lunch and breakfast.’ – Mike Nichols

‘Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.’ – Gerald Chertavian

‘Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There’s a fantastic joy in destroying something that you’ve meticulously built. Then you’re free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation… they’re inseparable.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘My father used to be away for months at a time, and he’d never leave any money for food, so my brother and I had to go out and nick it.’ – Norman Wisdom

‘My brother had a house in Paris. To it came many Western classical musicians. These musicians all made the same point: ‘Indian music,’ they said, ‘is beautiful when we hear it with the dancers. On its own, it is repetitious and monotonous.” – Ravi Shankar

”The Bone Season’ is violent. There’s sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he’s 9, so I’m like, ‘No, it’s not happening.” – Samantha Shannon

‘My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother’s father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I’ve been living with since then, my brother’s also been living with, but he’s lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother’s murderer.’ – Natasha Trethewey

‘Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping them off. But I always wanted to play sessions at Stax, so I figured out a way to do it.’ – Donald Dunn

‘My parents liked to go dancing, and they encouraged all of us to bring our friends home. My brother had a skiffle group, and there would often be dancing in the house. And my parents would come and dance with us.’ – Diana Quick

‘When I was a deacon, my father took me and my older brother to general priesthood meeting in the Tabernacle. I remember how thrilled I was to be in the presence, for the first time, of the prophet of God, President Heber J. Grant, and the other prophets and apostles.’ – James E. Faust

‘My brother and late sister and I were raised in Detroit; it was where the middle class across racial lines, the middle class was able to develop, build a home, have for the first time retirement benefits, have a job, and yes, their kids began to go to college.’ – Sander Levin

‘I applaud President Obama for launching his ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ initiative that is aimed to empower our youth to achieve success.’ – Charles B. Rangel

‘When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my city, and I called every hotel in the Yellow Pages asking for a room by the name of their manager in hopes of meeting the band. After two or three hours of calling hotels, I got through, and the manager’s brother answered the phone.’ – Steve-O