All Quotes

My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no family. The court sent me to live with my uncle and aunt in Missouri.
‐‐ Karolyn Grimes

My mother died when I was 17, and I moved in with my dad to make a 12-month pig's ear of retaking my A-levels.
‐‐ Robert Webb

My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.
‐‐ Mara Wilson

My mother doesn't cook; my grandmother didn't cook. Her kids were raised by servants. They would joke about Sunday night dinner. It was the only night she would cook, and apparently it was just horrendous, like scrambled eggs and Campbell's soup.
‐‐ Katharine Weymouth

My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm very grateful for, because if I do make something of my career I will be able to say it wasn't because I was a Chaplin.
‐‐ Oona Chaplin

My mother doesn't really embarrass me. Even when I was young. She understands my career.
‐‐ Bow Wow

My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.
‐‐ James Cronin

My mother dreamed dreams for Joaquin and for me long before we could dream them for ourselves.
‐‐ Julian Castro

My mother dressed me always very conservatively.
‐‐ Selma Blair

My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.
‐‐ Joanna Lumley

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.
‐‐ Dave Brubeck

My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and they're like, his hair is out of control.
‐‐ Bradley Cooper

My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.
‐‐ David Blaine

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
‐‐ Kurt Cobain

My mother enjoyed acting as well with my father, who used to direct her in plays at his regiment. My sister is an excellent singer. However, it was only me who decided to pursue acting as a career.
‐‐ Ajay Mehta

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.
‐‐ Geoffrey S. Fletcher

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.
‐‐ Lionel Blue

My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.
‐‐ David Cassidy

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.
‐‐ Arabella Weir

My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.
‐‐ Colin Hay

My mother fed me with a spoon until I was 6 years old.
‐‐ Sandra Dee

My mother fed my love of demons, science fiction, and paranormal. She was a devout horror movie fan who kept me up until the wee hours to watch 'Outer Limits,' 'Night Gallery,' 'Twilight Zone,' and 'Star Trek.' We lived to watch those reruns.
‐‐ Sherrilyn Kenyon

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.
‐‐ Diane Cilento

My mother felt we'd be earning a living during our entire adult lives, and therefore believed we should spend summers in learning activities. Consequently, I got to see a plate glass factory in Pittsburgh, a U.S. Steel plant, and how Heinz made ketchup.
‐‐ Patricia A. Woertz

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.
‐‐ Joely Richardson

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
‐‐ Lenny Kravitz

My mother gave me a pair of diamond earrings when I was 13. It symbolised becoming a teenager. I also remember getting a collection of costume jewellery from my grandmother when I was in high school.
‐‐ Erin Wasson

My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.
‐‐ Sam Donaldson

My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.
‐‐ Daniel Craig

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.
‐‐ Robin Wright

My mother gave me boxing gloves; I wanted boxing gloves. I liked to box. So I still have them. They're still in my bookcase, very old, tattered, and they were cherished.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.
‐‐ Liza Minnelli

My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.
‐‐ Linda Lavin

My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.
‐‐ Vin Diesel

My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies extruded from a metal press and pastel bonbons ordered from See's.
‐‐ Joan Didion

My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.
‐‐ David Cassidy

My mother gave up everything for me. In Yekaterinburg, she had a job and an apartment in the centre of the city and her whole life. And in Moscow - nothing.
‐‐ Julia Lipnitskaya

My mother gave up her career bringing us up, and she has played a very important role in keeping us grounded. Even now I don't take my work home, my stardom home. It ends where it is supposed to end. There is a life beyond stardom, and it's a very normal life which I cherish. I anyway don't handle attention very well.
‐‐ Sonakshi Sinha

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
‐‐ Ben Affleck

My mother gets told, 'Oh, you're so lucky that your daughters are doing so well.' She never corrects anybody when they assume Helen is her daughter.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
‐‐ Jack Whitehall

My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love 'em! I never have. Babies scare me more than anything. They're tiny and fragile and impressionable - and someone else's! As much as I hate borrowing stuff, that is how much I hate holding other people's babies. It's too much responsibility.
‐‐ Margaret Cho

My mother got me into music when I was a little kid. She used to play music, blast it, when she was cleaning the house, while I was crawling around. I just love loud music.
‐‐ Pauly D

My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.
‐‐ Dr. Dre

My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I'm a repair chick.
‐‐ Cheryl Ladd

My mother grew up around horses and exposed my sister and I to riding early on. It was very important to her.
‐‐ Georgina Bloomberg

My mother grew up with each of her children - whatever your age, that's the age she'd be when she listened to your stories. She never belittled our problems. It made for something permanent and reliable.
‐‐ Esther Rolle

My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.
‐‐ Gloria Estefan

My mother had a book club that would dissolve into opening wine.
‐‐ Tim Federle

My mother had a fear of doctors - other than her daughter marrying one.
‐‐ Shelley Berkley

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
‐‐ Mark Twain