America Ferrera

I learned in those eight years is that home is where you make it, and we were in the White House for eight years, but it wasn’t the house. It was us in it. It was our value and our love for each other.

I pay my mama’s bills, I ain’t got no time to chill.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

My father was a perfectionist. We had to hop to everything and have marvelous table manners. I could only wear navy blue and gray and white. He wanted me to be interested in tennis and horses just like a little princess, but I couldn’t stand such things.

You know, it’s the silliness in me. It has always been there. I love to make people laugh. It comes from my family. My family is funny.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother.

I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person.

My #1 priority is being a mother as well and I can work too, so can you!

Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it’s like to have been brought up the way you were.

The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.