Mom and Motherhood Quotes

"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."

"Mom is the most unconditionally loving person I will ever know, and she has always supported me on every level."

"My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy."

"I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to."

"When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'"

"If you want to stand with me as a single mom - and I know so many of my friends and colleagues do - please don't appropriate my burden as a way to validate your own. To suggest that you are single-parenting when you are simply solo for the weekend devalues what real single mothers do."

"My mom is definitely my rock."

"My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream."

"I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid."

"I never had, like, a nanny that took care of me. My mom always fed me breakfast, lunch, and dinner."

"My mom and daddy are two of the most hardworking people that I've ever met, and they don't give up easy. And they raised me and my sister like two little boys."

"My mom always told me if I love what I'm doing, and I'm having fun, then just continue to do it. But if it's not fun for me anymore, and I'm miserable, then I'm going to go back to Texas and quit it all, to be honest."

"I didn't even know what 'The Voice' was, but my mom said, 'I signed you up for this singing show,' and I was like, 'All right, I guess.'"

"My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II."

"At 13, I was wearing plain t-shirts. Then I used to steal my mom's clothing. She had all these crushed-velvet shirts with French-cut sleeves. And, like, seersucker bell-bottoms."

"My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control."

"I'm more straightforward, and I speak up more than I did before. When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed."

"Every single second of every single day... I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?'"

"Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool."

"My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around."

"My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom."

"What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream."

"My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life."

"I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language."

"My mother told me one day I walked in to her and said, 'Mom, I'm not going to be sick anymore,' and she said 'Why?' and I said 'Because an angel told me so.' Now, I don't remember saying it; that's just what she told me."

"My mom always taught me - you know, little boys listen to their moms too much - that whatever you put into something is what you're going to get out of it."

"I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up."

"My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people."

"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."

"I notice that if there are some times I've been stressed, because I'm human and stress about things, that affects your kids. So you have to make sure you're a happy mom so they can be happy."

"My mom would still be mad if I didn't say 'please' and 'thank you.'"

"Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy."

"My mom's always been a good cook, so I took a lot of stuff from her, but most of the stuff I took from Emeril or Bobby Flay right off the TV and make it. I just loved to cook, so it just became a thing. It's a release. Even if I'm alone, I'll cook a full meal, maybe even a two-course meal, just because I love to cook. It's my secret love!"

"I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it."

"My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them."

"For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home."

"I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now."

"When I was little, my mom bought me a blue leopard-print pair of bell bottoms I was absolutely obsessed with. At one point, she was like, 'You've got to take them off, we've got to wash them.'"

"My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet."

"We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure."

"'Blood Feast' is my favorite of Lewis' films. When we shot 'Serial Mom,' and I showed them the infamous tongue scene, one of the female crew members said, 'I hate when a guy does that.'"

"I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever."

"My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know."

"Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public."

"I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house."

"My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning."

"I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked."