My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You know what, Mom? Good thing he left because you're a strong woman.'
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BEN SCHNETZER I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it. LEBRON JAMES I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot... DAVID LAMBERT I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real... FLORENCE HENDERSON Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, a... MING-NA WEN I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about... CHARLOTTE ARNOLD One day I went up to my mom and I said, 'Mom, can I have permission to build a 2.3-million elect... MICHIO KAKU I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot... CREED BRATTON I'll tell ya this: I come from an educated family. My father was an attorney representing blue c... JOE PISCOPO I credit my singing to my mom because she didn't give me a binky when I was a baby. I cried and ... AULI'I CRAVALHO I've always wanted to be a mom because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave... JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve. BARRY STERNLICHT I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because... FANTASIA BARRINO My mom is my hero, and I wouldn't be the woman I am today without her. NORMANI KORDEI People may not know this about me, but I've always loved cooking. My favorite thing to cook is m... BECKY G I went to this Episcopalian school, and one day I came home and asked my mom, 'What religion are... ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat... PAULA POUNDSTONE I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating. BROOKE BURNS What's funny is my mom took me to the theater for the first time when I was six years old, and I... DANA DAVIS My first name is a boy's name. It's Tanner. I've always gone by my middle name but, yeah... ELLE KING I don't make a habit of watching my parents' films, because it is a little strange. But I wi... DYLAN PENN You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher. JOAN CUSACK She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actua... KAIA GERBER Before this DJ thing, I was hopelessly taking things apart to try to figure out how they worked. I... GRANDMASTER FLASH I was just angry at my mom, ... I don't know if it was because they broke up, but I used to argue wi... GREG ODEN When I was younger ,I used to want to be, like, a back-up dancer, and my mom was like, 'Well, yo... SUFE BRADSHAW My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and... BOOBOO STEWART When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football. JOE BIDEN My mom always said, 'Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you.' ALICIA KEYS I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, ... VANESSA LACHEY All I wanted was for my mom to say, 'I love you, and I'm here for you.' I never got that... KENDRA WILKINSON My dad did show me interesting movies at a young age. I remember he showed me 'A Clockwork Orang... JONATHAN KRISEL I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she... WILL.I.AM I was called such names as a kid. Being the smallest boy in the class with a name like Caroll. I rem... CAROLL SPINNEY I have my name Cory on my left arm, and I have my mom's name on my right with a cross. She passe... CORY HARDRICT I had a nightmare. So my friend asked me what it was. I told him it was him sleeping with my mom. He... MUNTAZIR M. My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use... ED WEEKS My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life.... APOLO OHNO I was sitting on my mom's lap across from my father to see Kay Thompson at Ciro's. And I alw... LIZA MINNELLI My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. ... TAYLOR SWIFT My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'... JOSH HARTNETT When I came out of my mom's womb, I had 'sitcom' stamped on my forehead. SEAN HAYES My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. LANCE ARMSTRONG My mom, she's a great cook. You know, pirogue, borscht. I love borscht, and I love Pilemeni, mea... IRINA SHAYK When mom found my diaphragm, I told her it was a bathing cap for my cat. LIZ WINSTON I love celebrating Mother's Day. Since I was a kid, it was a special day to tell my mother and g... KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a li... NATALIE PORTMAN My earliest memories as a kid was I would always try to make my mom and my stepdad laugh at dinner. ... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my he... TIM TEBOW My mom has this thing where if I'm doing anything doing dirty or crazy, she sniffs it out and ye... ROB HUEBEL In high school, my mom's friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came... LAURA HARRIER My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't r... LORDE I had an imaginary friend. I don't know when I stopped having an imaginary friend, but my mom an... CC SABATHIA My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a b... GABBY DOUGLAS I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom. SUSIE BRIGHT I think just because you're a mom, it doesn't negate - if anything, you're probably more... EMMA MCLAUGHLIN Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me.... MALAIKA ARORA KHAN Amanda, you finally decided to answer the phone,” her mom exclaimed after picking up at the first ... REBECCA MCNUTT I'd always tell my mom, 'I want to be famous like Claudia Schiffer or Brigitte Bardot.' CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My da... ASHTON KUTCHER In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to q... REBECCA LOBO A little secret - I'm the child of a shrink. I am; my mom's a shrink, and my father's a ... ADAM SHANKMAN My mom and I have always been very close since she did raise me as, like, a single mom. My friends a... TIFFANY TRUMP Sometimes when you are a great mom, you're not so great at your job. And then when you're go... GISELE BUNDCHEN Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the... LAURA DERN One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for... MAC DEMARCO My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' ... ALICE BRAGA I've never felt like I've exactly traded on my looks. When I was a teenager, I was an ultra ... ANNA KENDRICK I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant. DANIEL RADCLIFFE My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He li... PATTI SMITH I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a gre... EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not t... KATEE SACKHOFF My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around... QUEEN LATIFAH My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, '... NATE ROBINSON Basically, I grew up watching Carter girls on stage, watching my grandmother, my mom and my aunts pe... CARLENE CARTER My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful. JAMIE LEE CURTIS When my husband won the Palme d'Or in 2002, I wore the same dress two days in a row. My daughter... EMMANUELLE SEIGNER When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom m... DAK PRESCOTT When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known ... WYNTON MARSALIS I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies... VANNA WHITE My mom passed down to me her old Levi's denim jacket. When I left it on a plane, I was devastate... LILY JAMES
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WHITEMAN El señor Traseronian miró al público. -"Más amables de lo necesario" - repitió -. Qué fra... PALACIO R. J. I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of ... J. R. SMITH My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professio... OLIVIER MARTINEZ I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family. OLIVIER MARTINEZ I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free. OLIVIER MARTINEZ Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exa... OLIVIER MARTINEZ If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you... OLIVIER MARTINEZ In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never ... OLIVIER MARTINEZ I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married. OLIVIER MARTINEZ Love is based on imagination. OLIVIER MARTINEZ People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice. OLIVIER MARTINEZ But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes ever... OLIVIER MARTINEZ I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered. OLIVIER MARTINEZ It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit. OLIVIER MARTINEZ There are two smells that I can recognize right away. The smell of the boxing ring and the smell of ... OLIVIER MARTINEZ I don't have goals in life. OLIVIER MARTINEZ I'll always be a foreigner. OLIVIER MARTINEZ I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream. OLIVIER MARTINEZ I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this ... OLIVIER MARTINEZ Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I... OLIVIER MARTINEZ It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This perso... OLIVIER MARTINEZ Imagination creates some big monsters. OLIVIER MARTINEZ Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay,... OLIVIER MARTINEZ And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. O... OLIVIER MARTINEZ I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard. OLIVIER MARTINEZ I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six ye... OLIVIER MARTINEZ