My mother is a pastor. I think she has her moments where she's like, 'Dani, what are you getting into,' but at the end of the day, she really supports me as an actor.
‐‐ Danielle Brooks
My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.
‐‐ Matt Damon
My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing.
‐‐ Harley Viera-Newton
My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.
‐‐ Katherine Heigl
My mother is a Senior Casualty Claims Specialist I, which in layman's terms means the head insurance adjuster!
‐‐ Ciara Renee
My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat.
‐‐ Bruno Mars
My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.
‐‐ Jan Hammer
My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.
‐‐ Sloane Crosley
My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.
‐‐ Novak Djokovic
My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn't want me to be.
‐‐ Mr. T
My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.
‐‐ Michael C. Hall
My mother is a tall woman - as is everyone in my family. At her prime, she stood 5 feet 9 inches, which is quite unusual for a woman born in 1922.
‐‐ Judy Gold
My mother is a very big cinema buff, so as a kid, we watched a lot of Indian and Malay films.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh
My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices.
‐‐ Egon Schiele
My mother is a walking miracle.
‐‐ Leonardo DiCaprio
My mother is Afro-Caribbean and my father is Caucasian-American, and I was born in Pennsylvania and moved to the Cayman Islands when I was about 2. So I grew up there with my mother, and it's really all I know. I grew up there until it was time to go to college, and that's when I moved back to America.
‐‐ Grace Gealey
My mother is American. I first went to school in America, and we came back when I was about six to rural Norfolk. In primary school, I was teased immediately and mercilessly. I probably dropped that accent within about 10 days.
‐‐ Adam Rayner
My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all about I'm my own person, and I'm making my own name for myself, I have grown up in a world where most of these people who are like me are children of famous parents. So it's easy to become the socialite and be famous for that.
‐‐ Dree Hemingway
My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
‐‐ Alicia Keys
My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.
‐‐ Eva Green
My Mother is an actress, so it's always been a part of my life.
‐‐ Alicia Vikander
My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
‐‐ Barbara Corcoran
My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.
‐‐ Jeff Vandermeer
My mother is an immigrant from China, and she filled my head with stories about ghosts and fighting monks in China, so the world of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' was a very familiar one.
‐‐ Tess Gerritsen
My mother is an incredibly beautiful woman who has laughed at every single thing my father's ever said. At a young age, my brother and I understood that if you can make girls laugh, you can punch well above your weight class.
‐‐ Seth Meyers
My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.
‐‐ Poppy Z. Brite
My mother is Bermudan, so I had a lot of memories when I was a kid, used to go down to Bermuda a lot.
‐‐ Michael Douglas
My mother is black and my father is Filipino. I got the best of both worlds.
‐‐ Cassie Ventura
My mother is brilliant but emotional and very much gregarious and connected to people. My father was brilliant but focused and driven and very narrow-casted.
‐‐ Justin Trudeau
My mother is brilliant; she's the best person in the world and keeps me grounded.
‐‐ Dakota Blue Richards
My mother is British; she's from Shrewsbury. She turned me onto 'Monty Python' very early.
‐‐ Jason Bateman
My mother is chairman of a bank called the Indo-Zambia Bank. It's a joint venture between Zambia and India. My father runs Integrity Foundation, an anticorruption organization.
‐‐ Dambisa Moyo
My mother is extraordinary. She understood me and never tried to hold me back.
‐‐ Robbie Robertson
My mother is French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. I've been raised, and she was, as far as I know, raised as a Christian.
‐‐ George Allen
My mother is French, my father is Texan.
‐‐ Mireille Enos
My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn't know what I'm talking about. I know if I wasn't her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.
‐‐ Steven Wright
My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that's less than 20 miles from Selma.
‐‐ Ava DuVernay
My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home.
‐‐ Nicole Miller
My mother is going to get earrings of my head. Some will be dipped in silver, some will be dipped in gold, and I will hand them out to everyone I know.
‐‐ D. J. Cotrona
My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.
‐‐ Rita Wilson
My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.
‐‐ Manolo Blahnik
My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.
‐‐ Mariah Carey
My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
‐‐ Kate Walsh
My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She's a whole performing universe of her own. Activists would run a mile from her because they could not deal with what she is.
‐‐ Arundhati Roy
My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York.
‐‐ Tom Felton
My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.
‐‐ Zara Phillips
My mother is my biggest role model, and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in our lives and has a great career of her own. Same with my father. So I knew it was possible going in to stay closely connected to my children while also chasing big dreams. And it's given me great perspective.
‐‐ Kerri Walsh Jennings
My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.
‐‐ Alison Bechdel
My mother is my hero.
‐‐ Sofia Vassilieva