My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

- Dick Dale

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

- Giada De Laurentiis

I love so many directors. I love David O. Russell. I love David Fincher, I love Alexander Payne and Jane Campion and my aunt. Spike Jonze. There are just so many amazing directors.

- Gia Coppola

With my aunt, I definitely can relate to how she makes a movie because she does it with her own demeanor, which isn't this loud presence.

- Gia Coppola

I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.

- Faith Prince

I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.

- Felicia Day

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

- Erica Jong

I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.

- Dana Spiotta

John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools.

- Douglas Brinkley

The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.

- David Miliband

I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt.

- Alan Furst

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

- Dan Jenkins

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

- Cristin Milioti

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

- Charles M. Schulz

I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.

- Bailee Madison

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

- Billy Wilder

Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle.

- Alvah Bessie

I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt.

- Ann B. Davis

It's Charley's Aunt and The Odd Couple rolled into one.

- Allan Carr

Everybody gathered at my Aunt Hannah's house, and we sat around and talked, ate, drank and told lies. That's what people do, and I just sat there and listened.

- Andre Holland