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ADEPERO ODUYE The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was g...
ADEPERO ODUYE I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.
ADEPERO ODUYE That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.
ADEPERO ODUYE I would come to L.A. for a job, but I love New York.
ADEPERO ODUYE I think L.A. is beautiful.
ADEPERO ODUYE I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.
ADEPERO ODUYE I have a Twitter handle, but I never sign on.
ADEPERO ODUYE I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it.
ADEPERO ODUYE My intention is to do more films.
ADEPERO ODUYE My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I wa...
ADEPERO ODUYE I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have fri...
ADEPERO ODUYE You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at ...
ADEPERO ODUYE There are conservative people in all colours in America.
ADEPERO ODUYE![]()
I don't keep secrets from my parents, really; it's pretty open.
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My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me...
ACTION BRONSON My mother is brilliant; she's the best person in the world and keeps me grounded.
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ERINN HAYES![]()
My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm s...
KIEFER SUTHERLAND My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.
EVA HERZIGOVA![]()
My favourite superhero? I have a soft spot for Batman, because he doesn't have any super powers ...
PETER DINKLAGE![]()
I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly...
LES DAWSON War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a vi...
EDGAR RAMIREZ My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ...
JULIAN FELLOWES![]()
Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don&#...
YOKO ONO![]()
I'm very close to my mother, but not a single other person in my family.
ALEXIS STEWART![]()
I think I am a product of my mother's sensibilities and my mother's values. There has been l...
CHER![]()
My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
MICHAEL JACKSON My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I wa...
DANE COOK![]()
I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My fa...
CHRISTY TURLINGTON![]()
Even losing my mother, I wanted my mother. That's who you want instinctually when you're hav...
TIG NOTARO When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
ALAN CUMMING![]()
My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart.
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ADAM MANSBACH![]()
There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeti...
RODNEY ATKINS![]()
Like every mother, it's my children; that's the first thing that makes me really proud. For ...
CHERIE BLAIR![]()
My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not w...
GENE SIMMONS The gummy bears tattoo was my idea. It's my son's favorite candy. The sketch was my other so...
PRINCE FIELDER![]()
Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it ...
AMY LEE![]()
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads...
JULES RENARD My mother had Alzheimer's, and it's a desperately, desperately cruel thing to witness.
GEMMA JONES![]()
I am truly my mother's son.
DAVID GEFFEN When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it.
EUZHAN PALCY![]()
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.
SIMON VAN DER MEER I'm a pretty open book.
EMILY VANCAMP![]()
I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD![]()
You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I cou...
GRAYDON CARTER Eternity before I met you is nothing compared with the eternity of being without you after I have di...
PRETTY I'm a pretty well-read person. I read my paper every morning.
TOM MCCARTHY![]()
Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.
STURGILL SIMPSON My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son...
ADRIANO GIANNINI![]()
And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden's mother, I think about my own mother, my wond...
CHELSEA CLINTON![]()
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
ALICE WALKER![]()
Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always w...
ROBERT CORMIER![]()
Mariah is a beautiful and talented person, and I've had a crush on her for as long as I can reme...
NICK CANNON![]()
My mother's mother is a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napp...
RITA RUDNER My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.
JAN HAMMER I'm a good mother. I'm a good person.
HEATHER MILLS![]()
Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British ...
GREG NORMAN![]()
I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi.
ANUPAM KHER![]()
My mother's style has always been consensus-generating.
BENIGNO AQUINO III![]()
I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.
FRANCESCA ANNIS![]()
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your...
QUENTIN CRISP![]()
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.
SEAMUS HEANEY Somebody ripped their pants open at my wedding, dipping my mother. My mother is not a lady who throw...
MELISSA MCCARTHY Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It...
ALLISON TOLMAN![]()
My love of fashion stemmed from my mother's passion for it.
FRANCISCO COSTA My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to we...
EMILIO ESTEVEZ![]()
My mother-in-law's from Norway, and she's always liked old-school remedies.
LINDSEY VONN I feel like my life is pretty much on display. So much of it is working, and that's really all I...
CASSIE STEELE My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, ...
MACKENZIE PHILLIPS![]()
Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongu...
JENNY ZHANG I've always been a pretty candid person. I'm not a very secretive person; I'm not a very...
ANDREW SULLIVAN My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer'...
FAYE DUNAWAY I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I ...
XOSHA ROQUEMORE My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
KANIEHTIIO HORN![]()
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ...
RUPERT MURDOCH I'm a pretty emotional person.
KATEY SAGAL![]()
You can't say I look like this person or sound like this person exactly because I made it my own...
LIL UZI VERT![]()
Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's dis...
CORETTA SCOTT KING Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, gra...
CASPER VAN DIEN The piece I most love wearing is Mother's gold brocade cocktail dress with matching jacket... It...
MARGO JEFFERSON![]()
Tonight, tonight we've reached a milestone in our nation's march toward a more perfect union...
HILLARY CLINTON Chanel No. 5 is my perfume when I'm feeling like a lady. It's old-school and warm - and it r...
PHOEBE TONKIN![]()
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
GEORGE ELIOT![]()
How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN![]()
Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.
MICHAEL MORIARTY My life is pretty much an open book.
JEFF CONAWAY![]()
I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
PAULA POUNDSTONE I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any chall...
SARAH POLLEY![]()
There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movie...
ALBERT BROOKS My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a pe...
FOXY BROWN![]()
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 and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother'...
JAMES ELLROY I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer ther...
CHANTAL AKERMAN![]()
I'm just a normal person. It's not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are a...
ANNA NETREBKO My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
KATE WALSH![]()
I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. M...
DOROTHY HAMILL Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improve...
PETER FORSBERG![]()
I wasn't pretty, but as my mother once said, prettiness wasn't my profession.
JONATHAN STROUD
ADEPERO ODUYE The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was g...
ADEPERO ODUYE I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.
ADEPERO ODUYE That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.
ADEPERO ODUYE I would come to L.A. for a job, but I love New York.
ADEPERO ODUYE I think L.A. is beautiful.
ADEPERO ODUYE I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.
ADEPERO ODUYE I have a Twitter handle, but I never sign on.
ADEPERO ODUYE I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it.
ADEPERO ODUYE My intention is to do more films.
ADEPERO ODUYE My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I wa...
ADEPERO ODUYE I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have fri...
ADEPERO ODUYE You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at ...
ADEPERO ODUYE There are conservative people in all colours in America.
ADEPERO ODUYE
I don't keep secrets from my parents, really; it's pretty open. SAM ROCKWELL
My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me... ACTION BRONSON My mother is brilliant; she's the best person in the world and keeps me grounded.
DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES
My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm s... KIEFER SUTHERLAND My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.
EVA HERZIGOVA
My favourite superhero? I have a soft spot for Batman, because he doesn't have any super powers ... PETER DINKLAGE
I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly... LES DAWSON War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a vi...
EDGAR RAMIREZ My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ...
JULIAN FELLOWES
Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don&#... YOKO ONO
I'm very close to my mother, but not a single other person in my family. ALEXIS STEWART
I think I am a product of my mother's sensibilities and my mother's values. There has been l... CHER
My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection. MICHAEL JACKSON My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I wa...
DANE COOK
I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My fa... CHRISTY TURLINGTON
Even losing my mother, I wanted my mother. That's who you want instinctually when you're hav... TIG NOTARO When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
ALAN CUMMING
My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart. LUCAS TILL My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in inter...
ADAM MANSBACH
There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeti... RODNEY ATKINS
Like every mother, it's my children; that's the first thing that makes me really proud. For ... CHERIE BLAIR
My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not w... GENE SIMMONS The gummy bears tattoo was my idea. It's my son's favorite candy. The sketch was my other so...
PRINCE FIELDER
Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it ... AMY LEE
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads... JULES RENARD My mother had Alzheimer's, and it's a desperately, desperately cruel thing to witness.
GEMMA JONES
I am truly my mother's son. DAVID GEFFEN When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it.
EUZHAN PALCY
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. SIMON VAN DER MEER I'm a pretty open book.
EMILY VANCAMP
I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke... SUGAR RAY LEONARD
You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I cou... GRAYDON CARTER Eternity before I met you is nothing compared with the eternity of being without you after I have di...
PRETTY I'm a pretty well-read person. I read my paper every morning.
TOM MCCARTHY
Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians. STURGILL SIMPSON My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son...
ADRIANO GIANNINI
And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden's mother, I think about my own mother, my wond... CHELSEA CLINTON
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. ALICE WALKER
Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always w... ROBERT CORMIER
Mariah is a beautiful and talented person, and I've had a crush on her for as long as I can reme... NICK CANNON
My mother's mother is a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napp... RITA RUDNER My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.
JAN HAMMER I'm a good mother. I'm a good person.
HEATHER MILLS
Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British ... GREG NORMAN
I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi. ANUPAM KHER
My mother's style has always been consensus-generating. BENIGNO AQUINO III
I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party. FRANCESCA ANNIS
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your... QUENTIN CRISP
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. SEAMUS HEANEY Somebody ripped their pants open at my wedding, dipping my mother. My mother is not a lady who throw...
MELISSA MCCARTHY Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It...
ALLISON TOLMAN
My love of fashion stemmed from my mother's passion for it. FRANCISCO COSTA My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to we...
EMILIO ESTEVEZ
My mother-in-law's from Norway, and she's always liked old-school remedies. LINDSEY VONN I feel like my life is pretty much on display. So much of it is working, and that's really all I...
CASSIE STEELE My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, ...
MACKENZIE PHILLIPS
Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongu... JENNY ZHANG I've always been a pretty candid person. I'm not a very secretive person; I'm not a very...
ANDREW SULLIVAN My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer'...
FAYE DUNAWAY I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I ...
XOSHA ROQUEMORE My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
KANIEHTIIO HORN
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH I'm a pretty emotional person.
KATEY SAGAL
You can't say I look like this person or sound like this person exactly because I made it my own... LIL UZI VERT
Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's dis... CORETTA SCOTT KING Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, gra...
CASPER VAN DIEN The piece I most love wearing is Mother's gold brocade cocktail dress with matching jacket... It...
MARGO JEFFERSON
Tonight, tonight we've reached a milestone in our nation's march toward a more perfect union... HILLARY CLINTON Chanel No. 5 is my perfume when I'm feeling like a lady. It's old-school and warm - and it r...
PHOEBE TONKIN
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. GEORGE ELIOT
How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold? ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
Everybody knows my life - it's an open book. MICHAEL MORIARTY My life is pretty much an open book.
JEFF CONAWAY
I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name. PAULA POUNDSTONE I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any chall...
SARAH POLLEY
There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movie... ALBERT BROOKS My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a pe...
FOXY BROWN
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 and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother'... JAMES ELLROY I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer ther...
CHANTAL AKERMAN
I'm just a normal person. It's not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are a... ANNA NETREBKO My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
KATE WALSH
I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. M... DOROTHY HAMILL Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improve...
PETER FORSBERG
I wasn't pretty, but as my mother once said, prettiness wasn't my profession. JONATHAN STROUD
