3 December 2020 Rory McIlroy My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in – not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory.
3 December 2020 Iggy Pop I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.
3 December 2020 Emma Roberts You don’t realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there’s no mom to do your laundry, and make you dinner and to do things for you, and you don’t think about little things like buying paper towels and salt.
3 December 2020 T-Bone Burnett I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That’s the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.
3 December 2020 Thomas Friedman My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.
3 December 2020 Mike Shinoda I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.
3 December 2020 Roma Downey What is free time? I’m a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.
3 December 2020 Kay Panabaker I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn’t with her.
3 December 2020 Patrick J. Adams So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn’t want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
3 December 2020 Kristi Yamaguchi I’ve realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don’t want to get injured because then I can’t take care of my kids.
3 December 2020 Georgina Chapman One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother’s engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It’s a Victorian-style setting that’s closed in the back, so it doesn’t sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.
3 December 2020 Jami Gertz As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won’t use them for my own press.
3 December 2020 Michael Patrick King My mom would be leaving the house and she’d say, ‘Don’t you pull out all of the old dresses in the attic and put on a show again!’ And the door would close, and that’s exactly what I’d do. The show was calling me!
3 December 2020 Wayne Brady My mom didn’t let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It’s all escapism.
3 December 2020 Nina Arianda I was into opera as a kid – I’d play ‘Carmen’ and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
3 December 2020 Jane Horrocks My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I’m sure it was an epic.
3 December 2020 Padma Lakshmi My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I’m scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.
3 December 2020 Ray Lewis My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.
3 December 2020 Alyssa Milano I deal with postpartum feelings by reaching out to mom friends. I became very close with some of the women in my prenatal yoga class.
