We weren't your mainstream '50s family. Both my parents had wonderful, eccentric, artistic friends who treated us as friends as well. How your mind worked was considered important.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.
I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.
My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that, because we would have drifted apart.
My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.
My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.
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.
I grew up in a great family.
I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul.
I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.