Mother Quotes

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

My mother was pretty much on my case all the time.

I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.

He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.

I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.

My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.

Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.

I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

I wasn't Barbie-obsessed. I think my mother might have been my Barbie.

My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.

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!

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!

I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.