All Quotes

My mother was always deeply attracted to anything medical, and I think she would have loved me to have been a doctor. My father was in the army for 21 years, came out just before I was born. There was no history of showbusiness on either side of the family, but they were completely supportive.
‐‐ Lindsay Duncan

My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.
‐‐ Chris Ware

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

My mother was always in those films where it's the end of the world and a meteor's about to hit London; there's only six people left, and one of them's in purple underwear. That was always my mother, running from this meteor in purple underwear and spraining her ankle.
‐‐ Paula Yates

My mother was always supportive.
‐‐ Adam Lambert

My mother was always working for a job, so I guess I was always trained that I should have multiple jobs, multiple aspirations. And I remember she had multiple aspirations, always hearing about her dreams and things she did in the past and things she wanted to do.
‐‐ Sean Combs

My mother was amazing. I guess, in our community, if you wanted to get by you had to work hard. So she cleaned offices. She did everything that you could imagine. We were really poor. But she would say, 'Where you are is not who you are.'
‐‐ Ursula Burns

My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.
‐‐ Taj Mahal

My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.
‐‐ Iman

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.
‐‐ Maximilian Schell

My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.
‐‐ Laura Benanti

My mother was an actress in comedies. My father wrote scenarios. They were not opposed to my being an actor. I really didn't know what it meant, but I wanted to be one anyway.
‐‐ Jean-Pierre Leaud

My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.
‐‐ Liza Minnelli

My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!
‐‐ Natalie Babbitt

My mother was an awful cook, an exceptionally awful kosher cook, but I stayed kosher until I got to college, even though I'd long stopped believing in God.
‐‐ Simon Schama

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
‐‐ Dave Hickey

My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a very liberal Democrat, and she was protesting Nixon when he was in office.
‐‐ Peter Dinklage

My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.
‐‐ Freeman A. Hrabowski III

My mother was an enthusiastic chef but wildly disorganized, and often preferred purchasing yet another jar of mace or chili powder rather than having to hunt down its last incarnation.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.
‐‐ Pedro Almodovar

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.
‐‐ George J. Mitchell

My mother was an introvert and quite religious. And we were brought up in the church. And when she learned that I wanted to act, she simply said: 'You cannot live here and do that.'
‐‐ Cicely Tyson

My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on a pop record, they would tell me to turn it off, so I only listen to classical.
‐‐ Amanda Eliasch

My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at the last minute before the gospel reading, take Communion, and walk right out again.
‐‐ Frederica Mathewes-Green

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.
‐‐ Kamala Harris

My mother was asked to be a model when she was younger, but my father had not let her, so she was quite keen on me becoming a model. I just went off without telling my dad. I took off to Paris and never came back, but when I became a success and started making money, he was very proud of me.
‐‐ Jerry Hall

My mother was being hounded by a debt collector over a debt that she didn't owe, and she eventually just paid it because she wanted the calls to stop. I was very surprised. It sounded so strange. I started poking around on the Internet and found this was extremely common.
‐‐ Jake Halpern

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
‐‐ J. Robert Oppenheimer

My mother was born in Burma, but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this quite exotic mix, which is reflected in my earliest memories, in our Wiltshire country kitchen, of gran, and aunts, cooking spicy stewy, casseroley curries, a version of Indian food with a Burmese twist.
‐‐ Jamie Cullum

My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.
‐‐ Amity Gaige

My mother was born in Switzerland, my stepfather in Canada.
‐‐ Susan Straight

My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.
‐‐ Paul Robeson

My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back.
‐‐ Julie Walters

My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.
‐‐ Shirley MacLaine

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home - I think in those days we called them arguments - about who was right and who was wrong.
‐‐ David Bowie

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.
‐‐ Richard Branson

My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.
‐‐ Salma Hayek

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
‐‐ Lorna Luft

My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English.
‐‐ Chris Abani

My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
‐‐ Vera Wang

My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.
‐‐ Faye Wattleton

My mother was from Scotland and had very fair skin... she wouldn't allow us to go in the sun.
‐‐ Julianne Moore

My mother was from West Bromwich; my grandfather was Pakistani. I had an aunt who started trying to trace the family tree and stopped when she saw what turned up.
‐‐ Peter Hammill

My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.
‐‐ Garry Marshall

My mother was gentle and warm. She was the sort of person you could really open up to. I was the eldest and her only boy, so I guess I was treated differently. She did bring me up as a Catholic, and at one time I was an altar boy, but I lost my faith, as did my father, when my mother died at 45.
‐‐ Stephen Mangan

My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.
‐‐ Carmen Dell'Orefice

My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.
‐‐ Dean Stockwell

My mother was incredibly strict, especially when we moved to New York. Compared with most of the American parents, who seemed so relaxed with their children, my mother was virtually a dictator.
‐‐ Mark Ronson