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My mom did not have money. She was a single mom, on and off in periods between marriages. My husband, however, grew up on a wonderful farm in Tuscany, in Florence, and his family was so entertaining in terms of growing their own food and using the fruit of their land. We have very, very different experiences.
‐‐ Debi Mazar

My mom didn't believe in putting chemicals in hair. But when I got to college, we didn't have A/C in our dorms freshman year. So after several days of waking up looking like a Chia Pet, I was like 'OK, I'm gonna get a perm.' And then my hair revolted and fell out. I was over that quick, fast and in a hurry.
‐‐ Keshia Knight Pulliam

My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!
‐‐ Abigail Breslin

My mom didn't let me play tackle until I was in high school. She didn't want me to get hurt.
‐‐ Nick Ferguson

My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful.
‐‐ Lara Stone

My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.
‐‐ Lynda Barry

My mom didn't want us to go to the candy house, she didn't want us to go to the ice cream truck, she didn't want us to go to the... There was actually a donut truck, if that makes sense.
‐‐ Venus Williams

My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub were the three wise men of our family bookshelf.
‐‐ Michael Easton

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.
‐‐ Sarah Polley

My mom died when I was 11 years old.
‐‐ Tory Lanez

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.
‐‐ Travis Barker

My mom died when I was 8.
‐‐ Lisa Guerrero

My mom doesn't fit into my shoes, so sucks for her!
‐‐ Lourdes Leon Ciccone

My mom doesn't get the whole gay thing, but she loves me.
‐‐ Jai Rodriguez

My mom doesn't post on Facebook, but she'll tell anyone within about the first five minutes of meeting them about my sister and I, in whatever way she can.
‐‐ Maria Bamford

My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger painting in my dress.
‐‐ Allegra Versace

My mom drives me crazy sometimes, but I have a good relationship with her.
‐‐ Seth Rogen

My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.
‐‐ Alyson Hannigan

My mom ending up passing away, and I got really depressed and didn't have money for therapy, and so I started doing standup to cope with my mom's death.
‐‐ Cristela Alonzo

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.
‐‐ Thomas Friedman

My mom eventually got out to Oxnard and started a produce company and was in the strawberry business. My pops was out of the picture by the time I was 7.
‐‐ Anderson Paak

My mom fed us a lot of processed food when we were kids, like chicken fingers, grilled cheese sandwiches and quesadillas. I make those treats for my family, too, but I use organic cheeses and whole wheat bread and tortillas.
‐‐ Kourtney Kardashian

My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.
‐‐ Molly Sims

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.
‐‐ Estelle

My mom gave me enough self-worth to carry me through difficult experiences. She was very loving and accepting. She was like, 'Whelp, you're gay? OK, cool.'
‐‐ Jillian Michaels

My mom gets so upset at me when I say stuff in the press about anything political, and it drives me crazy because I say to my mom: 'I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be.'
‐‐ Jake Shears

My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined.
‐‐ Chloe Grace Moretz

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.
‐‐ Henry Louis Gates

My mom got 11 kids. We struggled.
‐‐ Young Thug

My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since.
‐‐ Bailee Madison

My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master's from NYU. She wanted to be an actress, so when she graduated, she had a dream, and she started following it. She moved to New York and took acting classes with people like Denzel Washington.
‐‐ Big Sean

My mom, grandma, great-grandma - we're all named Mary, and we all play piano and sing.
‐‐ Mary Lambert

My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my father is, like, first generation Albanian, and his parents lived in Southey and grew up in downtown Boston. My parents are complete opposites.
‐‐ Eliza Dushku

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.
‐‐ Hunter Parrish

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.
‐‐ Jennifer Garner

My mom grew up in the Soviet Bloc, and she was a Tiger Mom. We didn't get away with much.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

My mom grew up with horses, and when I turned 14, 15, she's like, 'Do you want to take a riding lesson?' I thought, 'Oh, gross, dirty.' She was like, 'Okay.' And then I did, and now I'm the one cleaning those damn stalls out. You can't get me away from the barn now. It shocks even me.
‐‐ Kaley Cuoco

My mom had a huge video camera that I would always play with, and there is home video of me, like, with the camera letting her know, 'I want to do stuff like this when I grow up.'
‐‐ Rick Gonzalez

My mom had a job, and she also took care of us, and she also took care of Dad - I always saw her pulling triple duty, doing more than I ever felt like she needed to. I made a promise to myself that it would be more of a team effort in my family someday. And because of that, I became more independent.
‐‐ Carrie Underwood

My mom had a produce business in in Oxnard, and we used to take these long trips to talk to farmers and different distributors. She'd take us with her after picking us up from school, and she'd be blasting all this old soul music and R&B. I knew all those O'Jays songs before I knew Snoop or Dre or Tupac.
‐‐ Anderson Paak

My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.
‐‐ Mae Whitman

My mom had done some TV and commercials before I was born, and so when I was born, she knew I had a really big interest in acting because I was always acting in plays with my dolls, and they were sort of boring, because I've seen them on tape; they always involved a lot of singing and dragging them around by their hair.
‐‐ Quinn Shephard

My mom had five kids. And she came home after working three jobs, and I'd rub her feet. We'd all rub her feet. We were lucky to get any time with her.
‐‐ Lee Daniels

My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.
‐‐ Lev Yilmaz

My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.
‐‐ Anthony Bourdain

My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to take me to Woodstock - it was pouring rain. It was on my birthday, and I was crying so much in the car they turned the car around and dumped me at my grandmother's house... I had a little attitude.
‐‐ Debi Mazar

My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.
‐‐ Brett Ratner

My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
‐‐ Gael Garcia Bernal

My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.
‐‐ Elisabeth Shue