All Quotes

My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh; it's what you look like.'
‐‐ Gina Carano

My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything - Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No - the narrative gave me connection with my mom.
‐‐ Peter Guber

My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, but that's not what she was talking about. My mom knew that education opened doors and opened minds.
‐‐ Richard Carmona

My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
‐‐ Gabby Douglas

My mom wanted to be a country singer, too, so country was always being played. And my girlfriends and I used to go to concerts, like Brad Paisley, in middle school and high school.
‐‐ Jana Kramer

My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked.
‐‐ Melissa Leo

My mom was a big feminist, and when I was growing up, I wasn't allowed to have typical girl toys: she did not let me have dolls. Barbies were banned in our household. She read feminist books to me; my mom was a major feminist.
‐‐ Leila Janah

My mom was a big 'Smurfs' fan, so she would force me to watch every Saturday morning. I had no choice in the matter. I would jump downstairs on Saturday morning, 'Hurray, cartoons!' and she would say, 'Smurfs! That's what you're watching.'
‐‐ Jayma Mays

My mom was a championship pool player.
‐‐ Drake Bell

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
‐‐ Elvis Stojko

My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.
‐‐ Tommy Rettig

My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.
‐‐ Angie Stone

My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical.
‐‐ Skylar Grey

My mom was a free spirit, and she brought me up to be a free spirit.
‐‐ Mark Bradford

My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
‐‐ Mandy Patinkin

My mom was a hairdresser. My aunt was a hairdresser. My brother was a hairdresser. My sisters are hairdressers.
‐‐ Mark Ruffalo

My mom was a hairstylist, but she quit doing that to raise the kids - there were four of us. There was no money.
‐‐ Mark Ruffalo

My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
‐‐ Owain Yeoman

My mom was a huge Adam and the Ants fan. My granddad listened to a lot of Motown and Elvis and Johnny Cash. So I was kind of well-rounded.
‐‐ Hayley Williams

My mom was a huge fan of 'Dirty Dancing.' I couldn't quite get a break, and she was like, 'Patrick Swayze was a dancer!' And Fred Astaire. I started dancing, and it led me to acting. It helps with fighting or whatever choreography in general.
‐‐ Falk Hentschel

My mom was a medical photographer, but on the side, she did a before-and-after glam photography business in the house. She would do makeup and hair - and I was her assistant.
‐‐ Tyra Banks

My mom was a model, and her laid-back but put-together sensibility really rubbed off on me.
‐‐ Tony Parker

My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother.
‐‐ Michael Kors

My mom was a model. She met my dad when he was building the Ritz-Carlton in Colorado and she was modeling there. Although we were very blessed, my parents never wanted us to believe we didn't have to work. They didn't want us to think that our situation would get us through life.
‐‐ Gigi Hadid

My mom was a model, so she's been really good about giving me tips on how to navigate behind the scenes - like the importance of being nice to everyone on set and remembering people's names, to how to be a positive part of the photo shoot and stuff like that.
‐‐ Gigi Hadid

My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started.
‐‐ Alyson Hannigan

My mom was a problem solver.
‐‐ Anne Wojcicki

My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It's embarrassing, because she's really strong.
‐‐ Booboo Stewart

My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.
‐‐ Iggy Pop

My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'
‐‐ Carmen Electra

My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that.
‐‐ Jason Aldean

My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
‐‐ Gaby Hoffmann

My mom was a single parent.
‐‐ G-Eazy

My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.
‐‐ Gloria Estefan

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.
‐‐ Condoleezza Rice

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.
‐‐ Shaun White

My mom was a working woman. She made more money than my dad. Both my parents worked. And this was in the '60s.
‐‐ Rick Santorum

My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.
‐‐ Iain De Caestecker

My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.
‐‐ Jodie Foster

My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazing person. She was like a bon vivant in that she just lived each day to the fullest. As soon as I became a vegetarian, she became a vegetarian.
‐‐ Christie Brinkley

My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.
‐‐ Angela Bassett

My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.
‐‐ Paul Walker

My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.'
‐‐ Miranda Lambert

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.
‐‐ Freddy Adu

My mom was always the support. I can always go out to her and she'll always find the positive in things.
‐‐ Caroline Wozniacki

My mom was amazing. She believed in me and we were best friends.
‐‐ Carmen Electra

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
‐‐ Rainn Wilson

My mom was an actress, so I got with her boutique agency back in 2001 and started booking a few commercials. She's like my co-manager.
‐‐ Tequan Richmond

My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the '60s. I just remember watching her do her makeup all the time. She always had her nails done, makeup on - her face was ready to go when she went out. I loved it.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Chriqui