My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son.
Adriano Giannini
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CHRISTOPHER JUDGE I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that'...
DAVE BRUBECK She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolic...
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SAM RAIMI She is a working mother, she works hard to provide for her son and herself, but (to provide) for som...
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DANIELLE BROOKS I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought...
RORY KENNEDY If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.
HENNY YOUNGMAN That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kind...
LYNN JOHNSTON I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was...
BLAKE LIVELY I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although ...
TINA TURNER My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she lov...
STEVEN WRIGHT My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
MICHAEL JACKSON My mother had abandoned the family, so grandmother raised me. And she was instrumental in that she t...
JEWELL PARKER RHODES My mother's first career was physical therapy, her second was writer, and her third career was p...
BETSY HODGES As the idealized mother, I might choose Irene Dunne as the mother in 'I Remember Mama' who s...
RICHARD CORLISS My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not w...
GENE SIMMONS My mother is British; she's from Shrewsbury. She turned me onto 'Monty Python' very earl...
JASON BATEMAN My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension i...
NATALIE MERCHANT I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career...
RANBIR KAPOOR I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad...
TRACY MORGAN My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.
LES DAWSON If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, '...
KEVIN JAMES My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She'...
LAURA DERN My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.
JAN HAMMER My mother's mother is a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napp...
RITA RUDNER My mother would work 14 hours, and she'd come home, and she'd just get right into cooking......
MICHELLE PHAN Brooke Shields has been a child star and has grown into an incredible actress. She is very accomplis...
SAMMI HANRATTY I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. M...
DOROTHY HAMILL Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot ...
KANGANA RANAUT My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
KATE WALSH I am truly my mother's son.
DAVID GEFFEN I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she ha...
PATRICIA HEATON My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, ...
STANLEY HAUERWAS My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It d...
HOLLY MARIE COMBS I think I am a product of my mother's sensibilities and my mother's values. There has been l...
CHER My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French ex...
JOAN COLLINS My mother-in-law's from Norway, and she's always liked old-school remedies.
LINDSEY VONN I'd like my epitaph to read 'Given the amount of time she had, she did the best job she coul...
DAWN STEEL Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, ...
LES DAWSON I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, an...
SEBASTIAN ARCELUS I know in my mind that she went right up to heaven. I know she forgave her mother. She knows her mot...
JENNIFER CZAJKA My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me...
ACTION BRONSON When I think of Tomodachi, I think of your mother. Your mother, she too lose her baby. She lose you....
MICHAEL MORPURGO I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for...
GARY NUMAN My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she want...
LINDA LAVIN My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her ...
MAHERSHALA ALI I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth cert...
LES DAWSON Mother Teresa's detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans' destitution and o...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She's a whole performi...
ARUNDHATI ROY My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam...
FRANCESCA ANNIS My mother's no dummy. She taught the lesson about sacrificing for your kids, but also that if yo...
SEAN COMBS My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always sm...
CARRIE FISHER My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like t...
JIM CARREY My mother was a mother. She didn't really work, apart from bringing us up, which a job in itself...
TOM PARKER BOWLES My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy ...
LAUREN BACALL Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.
BURT LANCASTER My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.
DEAN STOCKWELL My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She ...
LAURENCE YEP The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.
GEORGE GERSHWIN I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hi...
JOHN CLEESE My mother is brilliant; she's the best person in the world and keeps me grounded.
DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to th...
DAN STEVENS When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, a...
AL PACINO When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career...
SHERYL SANDBERG My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd ta...
DAVID BLAINE She told her mother, and her mother took it off.
CINDY CIERI My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and...
BOOBOO STEWART Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was...
KAROLYN GRIMES My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so ou...
LUANNE RICE My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, ...
MACKENZIE PHILLIPS My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer...
SUE MILLER My mother likes odd numbers and is suspicious of the even ones. She reads a new book every week and ...
SARA BAUME If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything...
JOSEPH P. KENNEDY The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains - the ...
ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property...
JOAN RIVERS My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to ...
BONNIE TYLER My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high...
BARBRA STREISAND I'd be nothing without my wife. She's the coolest. She's the greatest. She is the smarte...
JIMMY FALLON I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu...
C. JOYBELL C. She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed h...
ANN BRASHARES That's who my mom is. She's a listener and a doer. She's a woman driven by compassion, b...
CHELSEA CLINTON My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like somet...
MARLO THOMAS My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive -...
ROBIN WILLIAMS There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really under...
PHYLICIA RASHAD And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent...
PATRICIA CLARKSON There's no denying that Christy Turlington looks good in everything, but it's especially gre...
AMANDA HEARST My mother is a natural care giver, ... When she would do something for me, I would thank her, and sh...
ANGELA MOORE I'm destiny's child. I wasn't meant to be born: my mother bled for four months when she ...
SHILPA SHETTY Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is...
SONU NIGAM I desperately wanted to play the part of Darth Vader's mother - I think she ended up being playe...
LINDSAY DUNCAN My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible le...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she...
SAM ROCKWELL My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
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