My parents never really lecture me.

My parents have never given me anything on a plate.

My parents never pressured me except to advise me against acting.

One thing my parents never raised me to be was a diva. I'm pretty low maintenance.

My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.

My parents never had to tell me about the birds and the bees, you know? It was very out in the open.

My parents never told me, 'You're supposed to wear pink,' or 'You're meant to do this because you're a girl.'

I never felt that I was supposed to be white. Or black, either. My parents just wanted to let me be who I needed to be.

I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta get me some of that!'

My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career.

I grew up with white parents, and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.

I did some plays in high school. Yes. Never took it that seriously. My parents, however, wanted me to go to college. My grades weren't exactly spectacular so they figured acting might be a necessary back door into some school.

I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come.

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