Joan Rivers
Related I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ... HARRIET WALTER I know in my mind that she went right up to heaven. I know she forgave her mother. She knows her mot... JENNIFER CZAJKA I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for... GARY NUMAN ANGELINA JOLIE RALPH FIENNES AL PACINO LAUREN BACALL PETER C. DOHERTY B. B. KING She had a very difficult life. Her mother gave her away when she was little, and the man who took he... BERNARDO BATIZ JOAN SUTHERLAND I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was,... ERIC DICKERSON MICHAEL MORPURGO TAMORA PIERCE JOEL OSTEEN TINA TURNER My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I wa... DANE COOK NATALIE MERCHANT When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st... JANE BIRKIN EDMUND WHITE JACLYN SMITH PAUL MCCARTNEY My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was ... KYM WHITLEY JAN DE BONT ICE T I asked my mother, 'Who are those people?' She said she didn't know. She was happy because the husba... ELIZABETH NSELE NEIL GAIMAN For me and for our family, looking at death is its glory, and an opportunity to thank God for this g... RONNENE HARRIS GILLIAN FLYNN She was a very devoted mother. She gave her life to her two kids. WALLDON DASILVA She may have been only sixteen years old, but there was a new life growing inside of her. She fought... VALENCIYA LYONS ALAN ALDA I was always impressed by Betty Ford and what she went through and how full of integrity she was, an... TERESA HEINZ I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it w... NATALIA VODIANOVA RUTH REICHL My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer's daughter and still made bread every da... RICHARD FLANAGAN You know," Marion said, "I met a woman once when I was a teenager. I knew she had gone through a lot... ERICA BAUERMEISTER When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that,... CICELY TYSON You don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive thing in her life, ... JUNOT DíAZ My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In... CHANTAL AKERMAN I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hi... JOHN CLEESE POLLY TOYNBEE You can never get in her head and know what she was thinking when she killed her daughter and know w... HOWARD CURTIS My mother was a phenomenal speaker. She used to amaze me. There was not a note in front of her. It w... JOAN MCGEE I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som... MARGO JEFFERSON I was clearly brought into the whole thing about acting by my mother. She loved the theater. She had... NORMAN LLOYD CLIVE BARKER My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working. DEAN STOCKWELL She was like a mother to me, too. I was pretty close to her. BRENDA SMITH ALAN FURST Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged a... JANET MCTEER RANBIR KAPOOR I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her wh... BILLY PORTER JOAN LINGARD I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me whe... CAROLL SPINNEY TRACY MORGAN TOMMY HILFIGER RUBEN BLADES My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, ... STANLEY HAUERWAS My daughter told me she wasn't afraid of spider but that she was afraid of my smoking. She said that... ROBERT CLARK I once took the key off my girlfriend's key ring so that I could surprise her when she got home.... TREY SONGZ MAYA ANGELOU Perry was leaning into my mother as he listened to what she said. They talked so close. He only lean... MARGARET MCMULLAN JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER KENNETH LONERGAN MAYA ANGELOU My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was g... MICHAEL HANEKE My mother was a very sweet soul and a beautiful person, but she had a lot of fear. JOHN GRANT She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess wi... BARBARA COONEY ALICE MUNRO J.M. BARRIE UNKNOWN My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the lead... LARK VOORHIES KIM CATTRALL I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories ... DARYL HALL DIANE VON FURSTENBERG STEVEN WRIGHT DONNA KARAN ROBERTO BENIGNI My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me ab... CANDACE CAMP She's like a mother to me. She treats me like a daughter. She was sweet, sweet. Lord, she was a swee... DELL WATT JERRY HALL I smiled and looked at her- there she was with such a genuine grin and twinkle in her eyes. I kissed... JORI NUNES LYNN JOHNSTON Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy... TAYLOR SHERIDAN Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think p... ED BRADLEY One day, when I was still living at home, a friend told 'Texas' Jean Valli about me. She was... FRANKIE VALLI STEPHEN CHBOSKY TYLER PERRY When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind. I don&... CHELSEA PERETTI EARTHA KITT GAIL COLLINS My mother was a very prominent lady in New Orleans. Everybody knew my mother. If she dies here, nobo... ANNE WARD A lady called me the other day and said she was able to save $15 on her mother's prescription. She t... JEAN RAGS RICHARD WIDMARK My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of... RONDA ROUSEY GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ I expected her to be pleased and excited. Sadly, she was no such thing. When it arrived my mother bu... GREG DYKE JOAN RIVERS BUCK OWENS
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(on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy M... MICKEY RIVERS These guys are so old they're eligible for meals on wheels. MICKEY RIVERS I don't think you're going to draw much from this game at all, it was not a beautiful game in any wa... DOC RIVERS I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass thr... JOHNNY RIVERS The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender. JOHNNY RIVERS In early '57, I bought a Fender Telecaster. JOHNNY RIVERS RIVERS CUOMO I think it's gradually gotten less awkward, from my freshman year until now. It's not really as awkw... PHILIP RIVERS I say that confidently. I'm not by any means going to play the perfect game, but I feel like I can g... PHILIP RIVERS RIVERS CUOMO RIVERS CUOMO RIVERS CUOMO RIVERS CUOMO I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getti... MICKEY RIVERS No wonder you're all mixed up. You got a white man's first name, a Spanish man's second name and a b... MICKEY RIVERS If you can stop him, you got a better chance, ... If you do that, the Angels aren't as hard to beat. MICKEY RIVERS RIVERS CUOMO I really don't trust Benson. He's got the sweetest deal in the NFL (the Saints are the only NFL team... ALLEN RIVERS This whole state is hurting right now. I know times are hard. I understand people are angry with Ben... ALLEN RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS RIVERS CUOMO He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul. MICKEY RIVERS My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone. MICKEY RIVERS I'm going to double my limit. MICKEY RIVERS Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding. MICKEY RIVERS When you're outside in this beautiful natural environment, it's dissonant to see some special effect... BARRY RIVERS The dirty little secret about film festivals is that every year you reinvent the wheel. BARRY RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS When we started doing the college tours, the show was seen in a new light. It's really dealing with ... BEN RIVERS We're reading some of the books about the Titanic. We're going to see the exhibit at the museum in a... BEN RIVERS The less than polar conditions actually drew more people. BEN RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS Sideways rain. We threw it 59 times (actually 57). PHILIP RIVERS Paul was absolutely sensational tonight. I didn't realize they had 50 and 43. I knew they had a lot.... DOC RIVERS RIVERS CUOMO FRANCINE RIVERS I don't know if it was vital [to get the win], but it was big. We needed the win because I look at t... DOC RIVERS The interviews have been a little tough due to the fact that we're interviewing dogs. We see a l... MELISSA RIVERS RIVERS CUOMO RIVERS CUOMO RIVERS CUOMO Once he gets in and just plays natural, be himself, he's going to do great. I like this guy. He's no... MICKEY RIVERS I like watching because that's my style of play, ... When he does what he does, I enjoy it. MICKEY RIVERS What was the name of that dog on 'Rin Tin Tin'? MICKEY RIVERS What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it migh... JOHNNY RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS Our boys mean a lot to us. We've been hooked for some time. ALLEN RIVERS RIVERS CUOMO The message that is coming across from the media is clearly, 'Watch out, women, if you're ambitious.... CARYL RIVERS I'm not sitting here all fired up like I've achieved something, ... I'm pleased that I've made some ... PHILIP RIVERS I'm sure there will be a different report every day for the next six months, and I'm not going to ge... PHILIP RIVERS
My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own ... 
When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned ... 
When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, a... 
My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy ... 
My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actuall... 
My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w... 
I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer hers... 
When I think of Tomodachi, I think of your mother. Your mother, she too lose her baby. She lose you.... 
Once she was certain, she didn't waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obey... 
My mother was very ill with terminal cancer she was given a few weeks to live, but she started speak... 
I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although ... 
My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension i... 
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ... 
My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful. 
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time ... 
I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life. 
My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I unders... 
I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she... 
I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got ... 
I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mothe... 
My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... 
My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of t... 
I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the... 
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ... 
I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career... 
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... 
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad... 
My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we... 
I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mothe... 
Then I went back to my mother when I was 13 and she was ready for me. 
I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my ... 
I can remember when I was 24, and I broke up with my first serious girlfriend for the first time. Sh... 
love. she liberated me to life, she continued to do that. and when she was in her final sickness i w... 
My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and ... 
All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was... 
A very dirty little fellow came in from playing in the yard and asked his
mother, "Who am I?" Ready... 
My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went ... 
Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always tol... 
My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she lov... 
My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a ... 
My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she though... 
My mother was a medical records librarian and wonderful with us girls. She sewed a lot of our clothe... 
That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kind... 
I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if... 
My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mo... 
The one thing I always knew about my mother was that she always loved me, ... And I give her tremend... 
I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were tradit... 
Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged gir... 
Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do... 
I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property... 
My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously throu... 
My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, ... 
I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking. 
I really want to disappear, grow a beard, not talk to anyone, not make any friends... I just want to... 
My favorite book is 'Redeeming Love.' It was my first as a born-again Christian, my statemen... 
Leaving the group, he reclined on a couch, drank morosely, and watched people. He noticed the games ... 
I meditate an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. Once a year I go away for a long retre... 
I became a Christian late, in my late 30s, so I had a lot of things that I was bringing into my Chri... 
The most nerve-wracking experience is an oral presentation in class. And right under that would be d... 