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I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York. KIM RAVER My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and int...
MAE WHITMAN There was a modeling agency in my little town where I got my start, but the opportunity came to work...
JULIA VOTH
My mom had beautiful clothes. My mom is elegant; my mom is glamorous. But my mom is also really real... TRACEE ELLIS ROSS My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.
DANNY PUDI My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h...
JOHN LLOYD YOUNG
My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to gi... CHUCK NORRIS
I was two years old when my mom put me in mommy and me classes. I always had a lot of energy so it w... ALY RAISMAN
I was born in Sacramento but moved to Los Angeles with my mom and my little sister when I was seven. BRIE LARSON
My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate. ANGIE STONE I grew up in a bus, traveled with various circuses and freak shows. I was a trapeze artist, and that...
NEON HITCH In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was b...
DAN HILL I was 3 and a half, and there was an open call for a Coca-Cola commercial. We were living around Dal...
JESSE PLEMONS
My earliest memory is my mom picking me up after I had fallen down, giving me a big hug and reading ... CHELSEA CLINTON
I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents. ANTHONY FOXX 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 When I was 7, an old lady was driving too fast in my neighborhood and hit me with her car. I was run...
RUTINA WESLEY I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - ...
LILLA CRAWFORD I was really shy when I was younger, so my mom got me into an acting class to see if I would open my...
MOISES ARIAS
Guys back in the day, we didn't have wallets. I never kept my money in my pocket; my money alway... NATE ROBINSON
My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion ... PINK
When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all... MARLO THOMAS My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog wa...
WENDY LIEBMAN I was the child who would leave school and take her clothes off the second I got into the house. I m...
ALESSANDRA TORRESANI I was just being obedient to what my parents saw in me. I was more interested in the things the wome...
GLADYS KNIGHT My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is ...
LAURA BENANTI When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.
JEFF BRIDGES
My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was ... CHARLIZE THERON
My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music... RUBY ROSE My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six y...
DARA KHOSROWSHAHI I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was,...
ERIC DICKERSON I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.
RYAN WHITE My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She w...
LESLIE MORGAN STEINER
I think it is important to be a friend to your kids. But it is also equally important to set boundar... KARISMA KAPOOR She was talking a lot of stuff about my mom. She pushed me, I hit her and it was done.
CHRISTI NARDOZZI My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother li...
RENEE FLEMING
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24. RACHAEL LEIGH COOK
I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to rev... BETH DITTO 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
For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you&#... LEBRON JAMES The one time I had a moment of clarity was when my mom told me my soul was dying. I remember just sc...
ANDREA PUMPER The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as m...
BIG SEAN
My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying fo... STEVE HARVEY When mom found my diaphragm, I told her it was a bathing cap for my cat.
LIZ WINSTON
When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes without moving.... STEPHEN WRIGHT
My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me. ZOSIA MAMET My mom is a breast cancer survivor of five years. And my best friend since I was 8 years old was dia...
LORI PERKINS My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.
ESTELLE My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. She was scared of letting me go. So, she home-scho...
BRITT ROBERTSON
My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. ... TAYLOR SWIFT It wasn't a question of if I was doing it. I was doing it. They told my mother I had talent and she ...
JANE CHOC
I thought about him going into my mom's when she was little and hitting my mom and holding up her re... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
How did I prepare for night shifts? When I was a small, anxious kid, I checked my mom in her sleep t... JOYCE RACHELLE My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.
KAT DENNINGS
It's hard for me to believe it's been 10 years since that movie. I really was a virgin who couldn't ... BRITTANY MURPHY My first role was in a Nativity play. My mom was playing Mary, and I was crying backstage, so she br...
MORENA BACCARIN
My mom was a cheerleader and had me as a teenager. I remember her giving me some pom-poms and teachi... CHRISTINA MILIAN But my mom knew this was my job and she gave me her blessing and told me to stay out here and do the...
MARCUS TUBBS
My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final pro... DAPHNE ZUNIGA I was born here in the States. I moved to Portugal when I was five. And then my parents put me in an...
DANIELA RUAH My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn&#...
JASON ALDEAN
When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to au... JACQUELINE EMERSON
My mom worked for Lockheed Corp. in Burbank as an inspector of airplane parts. To help make ends mee... RENE RUSSO
My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You kn... RORY MCILROY My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but ...
ATO ESSANDOH My mom never pushed me into it. In fact, she didn't want me to do it all. This was my choice - my ob...
MARGARET VAGA
My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who w... BETH DITTO 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 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. I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in...
RACHEL PLATTEN
People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just... LENNY KRAVITZ
And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be. ALICE SEBOLD My mother enjoyed acting as well with my father, who used to direct her in plays at his regiment. My...
AJAY MEHTA
My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fiftee... MICHAEL MOORE I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, an...
WENDY DAVIS I quit wrestling in 2006 because I just got lost. My mom didn't want me wrestling. I was wonderi...
BECKY LYNCH
When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver. JOE THEISMANN I go back to World War I. I even remember armistice day in school. During the war, my mother was bus...
HOLLY DIANICH It was tough ... on me to be honest with you. I can remember in December sitting in my house, and my...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ I started growing it in eighth grade because somebody told me to. After I cut it, my mom was stunned...
JAMES LARSON I remember when my mom used to bring me here when I was younger.
NICKI BAKER My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me...
DAVID ORTIZ
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ... ALAN FURST
Amanda, you finally decided to answer the phone,” her mom exclaimed after picking up at the first ... REBECCA MCNUTT I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell.
TAMARA TAYLOR
Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The ... JOHN GREEN
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World ... LEONARDO DICAPRIO I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about...
CHARLOTTE ARNOLD It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietna...
VANESSA KERRY
My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
For those that don't know, my sister was born with Down Syndrome, and she was institutionalized ... NIKKI SIXX My mom is a tough woman, ... She's been on dialysis (awaiting a kidney transplant) since I was in th...
FRANK GORE
My father was a military judge, and my mother was a psychiatric social worker. My brother and sister... JULIANNE MOORE
My sister was the one who told me where babies come from. My sister was also the one who laughed whe... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeti... RODNEY ATKINS
My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is r... AERIN LAUDER My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom.
ANDREW RANNELLS
My mom has since confirmed that my overeager go-to response - when I was going anywhere or had anyth... CONNOR FRANTA
My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazin... CHRISTIE BRINKLEY I had a lot of support from my mom. She was my backbone. She's a single parent, she's been through m...
CLINTON SOLOMON
