My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage
My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.
‐‐ Nancy Reagan
My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be.
‐‐ Joan Collins
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp
My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.
‐‐ Dolores Huerta
My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer's disease. But I'd often thought, God, we were so lucky that was the order in which they died because she would have felt put upon.
‐‐ Sue Miller
My mother was a famous photographer for actresses, including Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, and so many. I remember I went to school close to my mother's studio, and for years, I went to the studio after school and just watched how she captured these beauties.
‐‐ Dario Argento
My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model.
‐‐ Paige Butcher
My mother was a fastidious and orderly homemaker. I was the messy but creative type. I picture her following behind me through life with a damp rag and an air of exasperation.
‐‐ Laurie Graham
My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.
‐‐ Chesley Sullenberger
My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences... everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving - she's better than me.
‐‐ Angelina Jolie
My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.
‐‐ Margaret Cavendish
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
‐‐ Nora Ephron
My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a woman's rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.
‐‐ Kathryn Lasky
My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort.
‐‐ Graham Swift
My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor and friend. They taught me the basic principle that guides most all that I do: faith, focus, finish.
‐‐ Larry Fitzgerald
My mother was a great storyteller and a great historian in her own way. She only made it to third grade. She came from Mexico City at the tail end of the Mexican Revolution and that kind of turmoil and chaos and frenzy and also excitement.
‐‐ Juan Felipe Herrera
My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she'd grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college - and then worked to put her brothers through school.
‐‐ Robert Wilson
My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.
‐‐ John Lasseter
My mother was a high-strung perfectionist. She would check my homework for the slightest imperfection and demand that it be redone if she detected any flaws, which she invariably did. My father, in contrast, was easy going and affable and delighted in helping me with any project.
‐‐ Robert Lefkowitz
My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.
‐‐ James Cameron
My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.
‐‐ Alan Sugar
My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.
‐‐ Barry Sanders
My mother was a huge Steelers fan, so they were my team growing up.
‐‐ Deron Williams
My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!
‐‐ Etta James
My mother was a Jewish General Patton.
‐‐ Don Rickles
My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.
‐‐ Ginger Rogers
My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.
‐‐ Mary Badham
My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
‐‐ Karyn Parsons
My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.
‐‐ Diane Keaton
My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.
‐‐ Merry Clayton
My mother was a master juggler. If you ask her, she'll say she was a wreck. There's plenty of screaming that went on in the house, but I think it was necessary just to be heard. There were eight children!
‐‐ Sarah Jessica Parker
My mother was a medical records librarian and wonderful with us girls. She sewed a lot of our clothes - really glamorous, beautiful clothes - and I think that's part of why I was so successful when I went off to Paris; she'd made me all these wonderful clothes to take.
‐‐ Jerry Hall
My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was a by-product of the early contact between black and white.
‐‐ Peter Abrahams
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.
‐‐ Lionel Blue
My mother was a Mohawk, born and raised on a reservation, and when I was a kid, she would take me there to visit her relatives.
‐‐ Robbie Robertson
My mother was a mother. She didn't really work, apart from bringing us up, which a job in itself, but at an age where lots of people are thinking of retiring, so is having up to 20 or 30 engagements a day, and she's brilliant at it - she has always been brilliant with people.
‐‐ Tom Parker Bowles
My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.
‐‐ John Sergeant Wise
My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.
‐‐ Anne Lamott
My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis - all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in.
‐‐ Barry Marshall
My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.
‐‐ Josh Duhamel
My mother was a passionate, complicated, sometimes fierce woman.
‐‐ Christina Baker Kline
My mother was a pediatrician, and she kept busy hours. I learned from her you could pack a lot into the day. Every minute had to count, and multitasking was a given.
‐‐ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.
‐‐ Della Reese
My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.
‐‐ Lorna Luft
My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.
‐‐ Chuck Close
My mother was a politician in my formative years.
‐‐ Antonia Fraser
My mother was a product of World War II. My grandfather was on leave in Edinburgh when he met my grandmother.
‐‐ Martin Henderson
My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
‐‐ Jim Carrey