When I was younger, I thought LisaRaye sounded so country, but I've come to really appreciate my family-given name. I was named after my father, David Ray McCoy, and I'm totally a daddy's girl.
I also feel that I have been very honest with my friends, my family and also with the public about the mistakes that I've made and the challenges that I've gone through.
The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone's cool.
Eating at home is fine, as I can easily work around the foods that don't agree with me and still eat heartily with the rest of my family. I don't force them to follow my diet.
I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.
A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.
There was mental and physical abuse in my family.
I'm kind of lame. I prefer quiet evenings at home, hanging out with my family.
I'm really going to miss all the people in the front office, media relations, marketing, all the great people at the ball park. They were my family for a while, and that part really stings. But life does go on.
I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.
Since the death of my father four years ago, our lives have become difficult, and I must help my family.
Nobody actually played tennis in my family.
For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.
I know for my family, the only question that we will be answering is how many people are in our home. We won't be answering any information beyond that, because the Constitution doesn't require any information beyond that.
It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.
I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.
I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.
But I mean, even my family gets spoiled at times watching me doing things that I do, on and off the court.
I started thinking about what it would be like to raise my family in my hometown. I looked at other teams, but I wasn't going to leave Miami for anywhere except Cleveland. The more time passed, the more it felt right. This is what makes me happy.
Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.
My family background was deeply Christian.
This year, I'm most thankful for the people around me who've supported me—my friends, and my family and boyfriend. It's been a really crazy year. There have been a lot of changes with moving to America and a lot of adjustments for my family and friends in Australia to let me go off on this journey and miss me a lot. I miss them a lot, but am so grateful for them.
We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.
I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
My family is awesome.
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