A Quote by Mireille Enos
My mother is French, my father is Texan.
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My father was Greek, but he turned French during the war, and my mother was French. So I'm French, but I have Greek blood.
We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.
I went to elementary school in L.A. I was born in L.A. My mother was from Redondo Beach. My father was French. He died six months before I was born, so my mother went home. I was born there. Not the childhood that most people think. Middle-class, raised by my mother. Single mom.
I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother's side it's more mixture, with a Filipino mother and a father who was Scotch Irish-French; you know, white American hybrid. And I also have on my father's side a great-great-grandmother who was Chinese. So, I'm a hybrid.
My father is Swedish and my mother is French.
Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.
As you may know, I'm a native Texan. In fact I'm a fifth generation Texan.
My mother's mother is Jewish and African, so I guess that would be considered Creole. My mother's father was Cherokee Indian and something else. My dad's mother's Puerto Rican and black, and his father was from Barbados.
My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.
My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.
My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.
The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.
When you move around a lot, there are little bits of you from everywhere. I mean, my father's French, and I speak French, and there's a kind of struggle in me that says, 'I'd like to be French.' But I've never been fully part of that culture, that role.
I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to keep the household down or maintain my father's discipline, my dad, I'm so much like my father too. My father was so introverted, quiet, shy, nice. I got attributes from my father and mother.
I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I grew up in Parisian intellectual circles.
My mother - both my mother and father had very successful careers. My mother's an English professor and my father is a scientist and physician. They worked at the same jobs for their entire life, 50 years each.
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