My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.
What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.
My mom and dad met at U. Conn., and their lives couldn't have been more different in terms of their upbringing.
My mom is Filipino and my dad is half Russian and half Irish.
I definitely want to be a mom.
It was tough times in Ohio when we lived there. My dad was between unemployed and just selling random knickknacks at a flea market. My mom was a cashier at a Chinese food restaurant. They both had awesome careers back in Taiwan, and they came here for my sister and I.
My mom is Episcopalian; my dad is ancestrally Jewish but personally atheist. After their divorce, however, my dad married a Jewish spiritual director, and I became fascinated by the traditions she brought into our lives.
My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.
My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV.
My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.
When I'm on that field, I give it everything I have, and when I come off, I'm a mom. As tired and exhausting as it is, it's about coming back, even after double days, and still being able to enjoy the kids.
My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.
I guess my mom raised me right. She was very celebratory of her body. I never heard her once say, 'I feel fat.'
Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.
My real last name is Flores, and Milian is actually my mom's maiden name. So it's not made up, which is cool; it runs in the family. And it actually worked out better for my career to have the last name Milian, because Flores kept me in a little box, and no one really associated me with the last name Flores.
Violet speaks Spanish and understands it. She loves Cuban food! My mom is very good at teaching her about our culture, whether it be the food or Spanish or explaining to her that she's Cuban.
My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homework and housework; clearing the dinner plates while setting out bowls for breakfast; making sure we ate our breakfast while lining up bread, lunch meats, apples, and snacks assembly-line style so we could make our lunches.
My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.
I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.
My mom told me as a youngster I was always intellectual, like as far as being able to adapt fast and quick. But I had a fun childhood, went to regular school.
I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, 'Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.' I thought, 'Who cares? As long as they're laughing.'
It's a fun uphill struggle, making health insurance as a comedian, actor, and author. But it's hard to explain to people how I make a living. In New York, most people know enough creative types that I make some sense. But when I'm talking to someone like my suburban cousins or my mom's friends, it doesn't always go smoothly.
President of the United States is you know, our boss, so you know, the President and the First Lady are kinda like the Mom and the Dad of the country. And when your Dad says something you listen.
We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture.
Moms can be fresh, fly and young, and that's the kind of mom I want to be.
My mom and I don't have a lot of photos of my early years.
You know the best part of being a mom is getting that love. Honestly, you know, my son's love... a child's love is so pure, it just makes you feel so good no matter what.
My mom is one of those women... she don't take no mess. She is very vocal about what she wants and what she doesn't want.
Juggling being a mom and an entertainer is a challenge I face every day.
Being a mom to my son has taken precedence over everything in my life, and I think that's the order it should be... It's a great challenge that I don't think's ever gonna stop.
I'm someone that needs to talk about my problems. I call my mom every single day at school just to vent about random stuff. Singing is the same thing.
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.
My dad always believed in me. He was always kind of, 'All right, buddy, if that's what you want to do...' My mom was always more of a realist.
I was joking with my mom that all Jewish mothers now will want their kids to be filmmakers instead of doctors. Because you can make one film, and suddenly you're directing a 'Jurassic Park' movie.
I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.
My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant.
Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.
My parents have done a tremendous job, over the course of my career. They try to make every game and I think my rookie year, my mom made every game... They've been really consistent and it's all you can ask for as a kid.
My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.
I never put my hands on my mom, and my mom never put her hands on me.
I never really thought about acting when I was little; I was just getting a haircut at a salon when I was 10, and a woman approached my mom about putting me forward for an audition!
When I was a child, she'd have me wash the lettuce ten times or open walnuts by hand to make a cake. I was like, 'Mom, this is ridiculous.' But now? I run my kitchen the same way.
My mum is, like, my biggest fan, and she's the one who will basically do all the publicity for me back home... She'll constantly be talking to me saying, 'Dan, what's going on? We've heard this. Tell us about it! Dad wants to know!' And so I'll give them as much information as I can, and Mom and Dad are both my biggest fans.
I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator.
My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
First, I am definitely going to give some money to my mission program at church, and then I have to get my mom a dishwasher.
My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.