My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill. – David Frum
Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced. – Ethel Merman
Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living. – Ethel Merman
I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom. – Mariska Hargitay
My mom obviously had a problem. – Dave Pelzer
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. – Mike Shinoda
I shoplifted. I was about five years old, and I took a candy from a store. We paid for three of them, but I took four, and I went home and cried. My mom took me back, and I paid for the missing piece. – Carrie-Anne Moss
When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper. – Andrew Mason
I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again! – Julie Bowen
It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles. – Brooke Shields
My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life. – Mandy Patinkin
No, my mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close. – Stephen Colbert
My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3. – Kat Dennings
One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes. – Bam Margera
My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side. – Bode Miller
I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me. – Janis Ian
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
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
When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees. – Trey Anastasio
My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them. – Elisabeth Shue
