Mother Quotes - Page 15

• Mother was a talkative person, and I was a lot like her.

  Charley Pride

  Like Her, Talkative, Persons

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• We all show facets, to your mother, or to your boyfriend, or a friend. You're always a bit different.

  Eva Green

  Your Boyfriend, Different, Shows

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. April 14, 2011.

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• Mother has to be coerced into doing a lot of things.

  Bess Truman

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• Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van Gogh's dealer.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Ears, Public Relations, Figments

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• My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the band. It was one of the first records I ever had. As the years passed, the babysitters who used to look after me would bring their Doors albums to the apartment, and that's how I got to hear their later work.

  Henry Rollins

  Doors, Years, Eclectic Style

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• I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.

  Shirley Temple

  Careers, Two, Wife

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• I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.

  Shirley Temple

  Thinking, Mind, Actresses

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• I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...

  Twyla Tharp

  Children, Years, Musical

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.

  Joe Bastianich

  Icons, Style, Together

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• My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Father, Dragons

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [132]

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• I got my first laugh when my mother entered me in a baby contest.

  Phyllis Diller

  Baby, Laughing, Firsts

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• When I asked my mother where babies came from, she thought I said rabies. She said you get them from being bitten by a dog. The next week, a woman on my block gave birth to triplets... I thought she'd been bitten by a Great Dane.

  Woody Allen

  Dog, Baby, Block

  "Sleeper". www.imdb.com. 1973.

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• Running isn't a sport because anyone can do it. Anything we can all do can't be a sport. I can run, you can run. My mother can run, you don't see her on the cover of Sports Illustrated do you?

  George Carlin

  Sports, Running, Can Do

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Jack the Ripper's mother, who said to Jack, How come I never see you with the same girl twice? Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Girl, Dinner, Said

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• Venus de Milo's mother, who once said to Venus, You never call me. Can't you pick up a phone? Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Venus De Milo, Phones, Dinner

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• Steven Spielberg's mother, who said to E.T., I don't care where you're from, you're here and you're gonna get bar mitzvahed! Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Bars, Care, Dinner

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• It's my real name. My mother's name is Rose Rock. It was the worst name as a kid to have. They called me Piece of the Rock, Plymouth Rock, Joe Rockid, and Flintstones. Now they call me Mister Rock.

  Chris Rock

  Real, Kids, Names

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was good at keeping my mother from crying.

  Bernie Mac

  Cry

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• I had a parakeet that used to fly around the house and crash into these huge mirrors my mother put in. Ever heard of this interior design principle, that a mirror makes it seem like you have an entire other room? What kind of jerk walks up to a mirror and goes, Hey look, there's a whole other room in there. There's a guy that looks just like me in there.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Mirrors, Guy, House

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• When we got married, the first thing my wife did was put everything under both names - hers and her mother's.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Names, Wife, Firsts

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.168, Zondervan

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• When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I owed $20,000. That was about the lowest. I came back to show business, and I couldn't get a job. I was turned down by every small-time agent in New York.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Jobs, New York, Cancer

  "Rodney Dangerfield: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Running, Respect, Home

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.32, Zondervan

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• Sometimes my mother goes through my socks and underwear. I wouldn't mind, but it tickles so much!

  Emo Philips

  Mind, Underwear, Sometimes

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• I was a mother's boy.

  Don Rickles

  Boys

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