My mother always said I should have a back-up profession if the acting doesn't work out.
‐‐ Gina Bellman
My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.
‐‐ Diane Keaton
My mother always said, 'The best way to ruin a story is to tell the other side.'
‐‐ Gordon Smith
My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.
‐‐ Ruben Studdard
My mother always taught me that two wrongs don't make a right. We shouldn't bail out Wall Street. We shouldn't bail out Detroit. It will cost the economy more than the cost of the bailout which is more than the politicians think. We'll run into the hundred of millions to prop these companies up.
‐‐ Peter Schiff
My mother always taught me to think about things from other people's perspectives and think about where they're coming from.
‐‐ Julia Stiles
My mother always taught me to wear clothes for myself and not to follow trends as trends will end!
‐‐ Lela Rose
My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you've listened to them carefully and you still think that you're right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.
‐‐ Jane Goodall
My mother always tells me that when I was a little kid, my first ambition was to be a truck driver, and after that, I went through everything from wanting to be a Prime Minister to an air hostess, but never an actor. So I became one, and it was a great journey. I learnt a lot, worked very hard.
‐‐ Preity Zinta
My mother always told me before shows to stand up and show them whose little boy you are.
‐‐ Steve Kazee
My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'
‐‐ Sandra Bullock
My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.
‐‐ Etta James
My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi
My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
‐‐ R. Kelly
My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood
My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.
‐‐ Lalu Prasad Yadav
My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that's your legacy.
‐‐ Jan Brewer
My mother always told me to take pride in my appearance.
‐‐ Lulu
My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.'
‐‐ Donald Freed
My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God' - that's what she always said. The same God with different names.
‐‐ Jane Goodall
My mother always used to say when picking up a product, 'Would you give this to the Duchess of Windsor?' Well, that's lovely. But the Duchess of Windsor is dead.
‐‐ Leonard Lauder
My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself.
‐‐ Etta James
My mother always wanted to be an actress. She was an extra in movies and stuff. I have a feeling this is the classic story: The mother wants to be an actress, and the child ends up doing it. But it was never a jealousy thing between us. It was like - well, I was making my mom happy.
‐‐ Kristy McNichol
My mother always wanted to give back.
‐‐ Lady Gaga
My mother always worked and thought staying at home was a bit twee, and that you should get your act together and do something useful. Now I think that's the most useful thing you can do: bring up some non-criminals.
‐‐ Sally Phillips
My mother and dad loved music, were very much into music.
‐‐ Jim Foglesong
My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.
‐‐ Gordie Howe
My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.
‐‐ Betty White
My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.
‐‐ Jennifer Garner
My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.
‐‐ John Lewis
My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.
‐‐ Janet McTeer
My mother and father are very involved with music. It's completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all vinyl, of some of the best artists, in my eyes, that you can come across.
‐‐ P. J. Harvey
My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'
‐‐ Al Jarreau
My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright
My mother and father definitely encouraged me. People used to tell my mom that I should be in commercials, and then everything kicked off from there, and my first gig was some print work.
‐‐ Raven Goodwin
My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting.
‐‐ Tina Turner
My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.
‐‐ Marina Abramovic
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people's tax returns.
‐‐ Patti Smith
My mother and father instilled in me a sense of purpose not defined by today's street obsession with bling, cars or cribs.
‐‐ Brian J. White
My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.
‐‐ Joe Montana
My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.
‐‐ Michael Douglas
My mother and father raised their eyebrows at first when I said I wanted to be an actor because I was in this industrial city. My dad had done a bit of boxing on the side, but he was a welder first and foremost. I was 17, and I said, 'I want to be an actor.' They worried it was a waste of time.
‐‐ Sean Bean
My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.
‐‐ Susan Straight
My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personally, and when something like that happens to you and not around you, you develop a different perception than someone who has never experienced racism a day in their lives.
‐‐ Lizzo
My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.
‐‐ Chazz Palminteri
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
‐‐ Orson Welles
My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.
‐‐ Boy George
My mother and father were interested in the arts.
‐‐ Ken Adam
My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.
‐‐ John Cassavetes