3 December 2020 Heather Langenkamp I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.
3 December 2020 Misty May-Treanor She had a hit for every syllable: ‘Don’t. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.’ That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven’s mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.
3 December 2020 Abigail Breslin My mom didn’t ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!
3 December 2020 Kate Bosworth The fact that I’m very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It’s nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form.
3 December 2020 Victoria Justice I was almost 8 years old when I was watching a kid on a TV commercial, and I told my mom that I wanted to do the same thing. She said that I would need to get an agent and that she would research it.
3 December 2020 Ethel Waters Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn’t live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.
3 December 2020 Missy Franklin Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don’t want that to affect me too much.
3 December 2020 Arianna Huffington I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
3 December 2020 Gloria Estefan My mom was a source of strength.She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.
3 December 2020 Loretta Lynn Mommy smoked but she didn’t want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Yuh Nelson I’ve been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.
3 December 2020 Aleksa Palladino Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom’s an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.
3 December 2020 Buck Owens My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin’ her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting’ to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.
3 December 2020 Avril Lavigne I don’t want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don’t even know if I could handle a dog right now. I’m so not ready. Someday I’ll be a mom but not until I’m in my 30s.
3 December 2020 Holly Madison I want my daughter to be proud of me and look up to me. I think early on in my pregnancy I realized that to be the mom I want to be, I had to change my life, and that’s what I’m doing.
3 December 2020 Terrell Davis My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there.
3 December 2020 Jordin Sparks When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12.
3 December 2020 Patrick Rothfuss My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.
3 December 2020 Beth Ditto We all seek approval, and our mother’s seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom’s blessing or not.
3 December 2020 Sylvester Stallone I made some truly awful movies. ‘Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot’ was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.
3 December 2020 Sarah Palin I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.
3 December 2020 Valerie Jarrett I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.
3 December 2020 Zhang Ziyi I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn’t just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom’s voice that I came out of my hiding place.
3 December 2020 Lara Flynn Boyle I know that I’m getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she’s telling it like it is. She’s proud of me when I’ve earned it and she’s disappointed in me when I’ve earn that. She’s really my spectrum on where I am as a person.
