Age Quote by Abel Ferrara

My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak…

— Oona Chaplin

My grandfather spoke fluent Spanish and I have family members who speak fluent Spanish.

— Tony Gonzalez

My grandfather was born in Kyiv and left in the late 20s and migrated to Belgium where he met my grandmother and then started…

— George Santos

My earliest memory is having my grandfather, who was born in 1899, read the newspaper to me in a foreign language. I was utterly…

— Nina Arianda

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

— Aida Turturro

My father came to the U.S. from Lebanon in 1920 when he was 8 without knowing a word of English. He traveled to Green…

— Tony Shalhoub

My mother is Brazilian, and her grandfather was Italian.

— Kaya Scodelario

My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was 'Caroselli' and it was changed in the mid '50s.…

— Steve Carell

My father was born in 1925. He's pretty old. And his grandmother's cousin, I think, is Svante Arrhenius.

— Svante Thunberg

My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants…

— Alexis Denisof

When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the English language…

— Elif Safak

My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34.

— John Gokongwei