- My great uncle, my mom’s uncle, had an appliance store in Philadelphia, and it was called Peter’s TV. They sold stereos and televisions and washers, dryers, all kinds of stuff.
Michael Giacchino
- My mom is surely worried that the fact that I don’t have a college degree will impact my chances of finding a bride.
Ritesh Agarwal
- I make a lot of mistakes, too, and I’m constantly re-evaluating how I’m doing things and trying to be better every day, whether it’s as a mom or taking care of myself.
Mia Hamm
- I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.
Elizabeth Olsen
- My mom has always wished me a daughter just like me.
Pink
- Juggling being a mom and an entertainer is a challenge I face every day.
Ciara
- My mom’s the best.
Rick Ross
- My mom, through my dad, rented the apartment next door to his… he had the lease on both places. But then, she would dress up and act like his maid… a practical maid. No fantasies.
Trevor Noah
- Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.
Madisen Beaty
- I was raised by a single mom. I spent most of my time in daycare.
Jon Hamm
- My mom has been calling me Peep my whole life. That’s how I got the name.
Lil Peep
- My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it’s Hannah Dakota Fanning.
Dakota Fanning
- Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.
Levon Helm
- When I was 11 my friend’s mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, ‘I’m never eating anything else again.’ And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
Aasif Mandvi
- I have a personal dream to be a mom, to have a family and all that but – when I do take that break to fulfill it – I want everything else to be so strong and set that people don’t forget me.
Karol G
- My mom and dad taught me nothing but ABCs.
Nick Diaz
- My name is Leland Tyler Wayne. My mom wanted to give me a name where, no matter what I wanted to do, I’d be able to do it. An astronaut. President. Whatever.
Metro Boomin
- I’m a really fun aunt, so I hope I’m going to be a fun mom! I like to have fun and be silly and not take myself too seriously with the kids, so I hope that will translate when I actually have my own.
Khloe Kardashian
- My mom keeps me grounded and all that. She makes me do chores.
Auli’i Cravalho
- My mom, my dad, my two brothers – we’re all animal lovers. I think we love animals more than most people.
Beth Ostrosky Stern
- I don’t know if I found soccer or if soccer found me. Especially because when I was younger, I was doing it, in a lot of ways, because I wanted the attention of my mom and dad.
Abby Wambach
- My mom, she’s still always there for me. Always.
David Ortiz
- At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious.
Saina Nehwal
- I used to dress up in my mom’s old clothes and play with these kids from the neighbourhood and make up stories: I would pretend that we were all vampires.
Heather Graham
- I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.
LeBron James
- I knew the coronavirus was a real thing, but it really hit home when my aunt died, and it was really hard to watch my mom go through that with her sister.
Sunisa Lee
- My mom is a yoga instructor: 100% black with dreadlocks.
Meghan Markle
- When I was 12 I was obsessed with green and had my mom get me a bunch of green bedding for my room.
Doja Cat
- My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.
Vin Diesel
- My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree and spend an hour a day punching my heavy bag.
Joe Frazier
- I think it was like, ‘I don’t look like you, Mom. I don’t look like you, Dad. Like, what’s going on here?’ They just kind of told me I was adopted. I was like, ‘OK, that’s fine with me.’
Aaron Judge
- 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.
Ciara
- Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.
Mike Myers
- There are days I’m feeling lazy, and my mom will remind me, ‘Beyonce also only has 24 hours during the day.’ That always keeps me going.
Becky G
- I was kicked out of my own house and had my own drag mother, you know, a house mother. Things with my family are great now – my mom and dad were at the premiere – but they had kicked me out.
Angelica Ross
- I never get to go to movies, because I’m a mom.
Tina Fey
- My mom is about 60 years old and she loves our music because she can bounce around to it.
Wayne Static
- My mom was married to a Mexican guy – a surfer – and so we’d kind of camp out on the beach the swell season.
Cary Fukunaga
- When I was six years old, Mom and Dad gave me a guitar for my birthday, and Daddy taught me the chords to ‘You Are My Sunshine.’
Roy Orbison
- If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.
Abby Lee Miller
- What mom cares about most is that I’m happy, healthy and enjoying my life.
Chaz Bono
- Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me.
Stevie Nicks
- My dad was a dentist; my mom managed his office.
Aileen Lee
- When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink – boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
Taylor Swift
- I’m a total Twihard. I read all the books and saw every movie on opening night with my mom.
Cassie Scerbo
- She’s very loving. That’s my family. That’s Michelle Lambert. She is my mom.
Jimmy Butler
- From the very start of all of this, my mom has read the scripts first. And if she liked something, she let me read it. She told our agent what kinds of parts that we would want.
Anna Chlumsky
- My mom worked at Walmart for 33 years straight. Thirty-three years! Day in and day out.
A. J. Green
- My mom keeps khabar of everything, so I don’t feel lonely.
Kriti Sanon
- A little before my 10th birthday, I was like, ‘Can I please have a puppet, Mom and Dad?’ They were like, ‘No. You are a singer, not a ventriloquist. You have three brothers, and you’re in gymnastics. There’s no way we have time for this.’
Darci Lynne Farmer
- I would write scripts and little plays and perform them in the living room for my family when I was little with my brother until my mom said, ‘Alright, you need to go do it somewhere else other than the house.’
Sadie Sink
- I’m frugal. I’ve always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I’d peel off a little each week and have some to spare.
Tyra Banks
- My parents never pressured us. I didn’t even know how good my mom and dad were until someone told us.
Jrue Holiday
- I tried being a stay-at-home mom for eight weeks. I like the stay-at-home part. Not too crazy about the mom aspect.
Ali Wong
- My mom is Irish. She is a poet and a humanitarian who believed in ensuring that people around her had a better life.
Amala Akkineni
- From a young age, I took an interest in the music and my mom noticed it.
Morgan Wallen
- Of course my dad went to Formula One, so I think that my dad is the better driver of the two. But I think, for a girl, my mom was not too bad, of course.
Max Verstappen
- What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned.
Laverne Cox
- I would forgive my mom, but she’s going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.
Aaron Carter
- I’m black. I’m Latina. My mom is Cuban. Afro-Cuban. My dad is white and Australian.
Soledad O’Brien
- I grew up in Las Vegas. My mom worked in pretty much every casino on the Strip.
Ne-Yo