My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.
— Zosia Mamet
Oh, yeah! Playing 'Young Jackie' came at the insistence of Roseanne herself. Mom obliged but told me that would not be an option again until I was 18. Truthfully, I grew up not thinking I would act.
— Zoe Perry
Along with being around the 'Roseanne' stuff, I've been following my mom and my dad back to Steppenwolf.
My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.
— Zoe Kazan
Mom and pop shops paying taxes while Amazon got billions just to come to town didn't seem right, and, post-FoxxConn, people are less likely to fall for the promised jobs numbers.
— Zephyr Teachout
My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
— Zendaya
I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.
— Zayn Malik
My mom, Cheryl, worked two jobs to support me. She really helped the family stay together.
— Zach LaVine
When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.
— Yul Vazquez
My mom used to always play hip-hop around the crib, but moreso than that, she played reggae, and I grew up on reggae music more than I grew up on hip-hop.
— Young M.A
Having been raised very disciplined, I had to iron for my mom every Friday afternoon after school.
— Yolanda Hadid
I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.
— Yelawolf
My dad is Mexican, and he grew up as a normal chauvinistic Mexican, and he expected my mom to do everything for him.
— Xochi Birch
I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
— Xavier Dolan
Usually, the roles that you get offered that are the mom roles are very much the mom role.
— Winona Ryder
We lived on our own for a very long time, and those are my happiest years, me and my mom.
— Winnie Harlow
Even as a little girl, my mom never wanted me to watch BET, but when I was at my grandparents' house, and my older cousins were there and I could watch it, I was infatuated with the idea that I could one day be a DJ or the host of a show.
If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
— Zooey Deschanel
I got to see my mom do 'Long Day's Journey' in London, which was really beautiful.
I was raised vegan. My mom would always make quinoa with squash and kale, hippie stuff like that. Now I eat meat, but I try to be conscious about where it's coming from.
— Zoe Kravitz
I've always had a fascination with gymnastics, since I was a kid. It was the one thing at the Olympics that I would be like, 'Mom can I stay up late to watch gymnastics?'
— Zoe Bell
My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.
When the Berlin Wall came down, my dad left to visit the U.S. He met my mom at this summer camp where they were both working, so I grew up between Washington Heights and Germany speaking two languages.
— Zazie Beetz
Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!
As a little boy, my mom would bake with me on the weekends - that was our time together.
— Zac Posen
I got my way with my grandma. I used to get whoopings with my mom, but my grandma spoiled me.
— YoungBoy Never Broke Again
At 12 years old, I raised a premature baby cow on our farm because her mom had died. I bottle-fed it every day, let it suck on my chin, and babied it until it was stable.
I think I'm a disciplined mom versus a strict mom. But also, that job - the disciplining was from birth until about 12, and at 12, I set my kids free, and they learned to become independent human beings.
I knew she was famous, but she was my mom, a regular mom.
— Yasmin Aga Khan
I didn't have any social skills at all, but my mom noticed I was way more vocal when I had a Nintendo controller in my hand. So she'd set up play dates with other kids to come over and play video games.
— Xavier Woods
Whenever I would get in trouble with my dad, my mom would always save me. So that's why I like my mom - she cool.
— Wyclef Jean
I get sent a lot of scripts where you're just the mom.
With my skin, I have to avoid direct contact with the sun, so that, combined with my mom being conservative, meant I grew up wearing stockings under shorts and long sleeves under tank tops. It was kind of embedded in me that I was supposed to be covering up.
I liked to hang around my mom's beauty salon, watching her do hair.
My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion.
— Zoey Deutch
When I'm acting, there are moments where I'm thinking, 'I sound like my mom when I say that,' or, 'I sound like my dad when I say that.'
My mom and grandmother were actresses, and I knew I was going to do this since I was super young. I would put on shows at my grandparents' house and sing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in the living room. I was in drama club and chorus, and I knew every word to 'Grease.'
I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.
— Zhang Ziyi
As I've gotten older, I've realized my true models are my parents. My mom is like a sheroe. My dad is so strong.
When your dad is a preacher and your mom is a choir director and you're in church all the time, as a youngster, you've got to find something to do. That's where my musical background comes from.
— Zaytoven
When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
— Zachary Gordon
When I first got to Brooks Brothers, my mom told me she remembered how upsetting it was trying to find professional clothes in the eighties. Suits would either be over-stylized or frumpy, so she said, 'Make sure it's tailored properly.'
My mom got 11 kids. We struggled.
— Young Thug
It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but our perspective changes over the years and evolves with each child that comes through us.
My mom and her whole side of the family, they all from Compton.
— YG
My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this appreciation for different cultures.
— Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
What I'm interested in is how your career choices can affect your private life, romantically or with your mom, your relatives, your friends, your hometown, and how media manipulates information - not newspapers or blogs, but the magazines that people impulse-buy that tell you what's hot and who's not.
I came to Hong Kong when I was five, but we didn't have any relatives in Hong Kong. My mom is a big movie fan, and she watched all kinds of movies, so when I was a kid, basically, we went to watch a movie every day.
— Wong Kar-wai
My mom will sometimes call me Winnie. It's so annoying. I'm like, 'Who are you talking to?'
I've been doing my own makeup since I was 15. I would steal my mom's products, go online, watch YouTube videos of girls doing their makeup, and try.
