I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
— Patrick Whitesell
My birth mom has certainly not lived a life of means in any stretch of the imagination, nor does she want to.
— Patrick Murphy
Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
— Patricia A. Woertz
One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds - masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college, you're going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions.
— Pamela Meyer
I love that, 'mommy-shaming.' When I was a new mom, I was obsessed with how I was being perceived and trying to fit in as a mom, going to mommy-and-me classes and things like that, and never quite measuring up to 'the real moms,' the 'robot moms,' as I called them.
— Pamela Adlon
I am a single mom of three girls, and I'm getting through that. If I can get through that, I can direct a whole season of television that I star in.
My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
— Page McConnell
My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.
— Padma Lakshmi
I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
— P. J. O'Rourke
My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
— Owain Yeoman
My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
— Omari Hardwick
My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It's pretty incredible.
— Oliver Hudson
My mom literally saved my life. I wasn't supposed to make it out of the orphanage.
— Oksana Masters
I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.
— Octavia Spencer
My mom was actually diagnosed with breast cancer when I was five.
— Normani Kordei
I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.
— Norah Jones
I come from a family of writers. My mom had been a writer, nonfiction books, and her mother was a playwright in the 1930s and '40s. And my twin brother, Alexi, is a writer on 'The Following.'
— Noah Hawley
For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago.
— Patrick Stump
So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
— Patrick J. Adams
Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
— Patina Miller
I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.
— Pamela Anderson
I've always been kind of a mom. I was out of my house when I was 18, and my friends used to call me 'mother' and 'care unit.'
Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
— Pablo Picasso
My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.
My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
— Orlando Bloom
I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.
I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
— Olga Kurylenko
I pretty much look like an identical twin of my mom.
— Odell Beckham, Jr.
My family is very nomadic - my mom, in particular, traveled the world as a young person, and her father before that, and I guess I have that inside me.
— O. T. Fagbenle
My mom is my hero, and I wouldn't be the woman I am today without her.
I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasn't being challenged enough, so my mom put him in the theater class. And I obviously followed him.
— Nolan Gould
My mom gives great advice, and so does my dad.
— Noah Cyrus
My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.
— Patrick Rothfuss
I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.
— Patricia Polacco
My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.
— Paris Hilton
I want to be a strong, safe mom who my kids also want to be around.
I don't usually say 'working mom' because I think all moms are working moms. I feel like that diminishes moms. People should say 'working dad' as opposed to working moms.
My mom, she's just a baller in the ring. My scrappy side and my aggressiveness are probably coming from her.
— Paige
I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.
My mom is a sculptress.
— P. J. Harvey
My mom, my aunts, and all the Nigerian women in my life have been so fierce and strong. I have only grown up around powerful women, so I have a strong sense of self and our power.
— Opal Tometi
I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.
My mom said to me: 'Sonny, you need to study English.' And I replied to her: 'Mom, I do not need it. I'm going to be horse-boy, would I speak English with horses?' Mom said: 'Darling, you need to.' But I did not listen to my mother.
— Oleksandr Usyk
My mom always told me I could do or be anything I dared to dream, and I always wanted to work in the movie industry.
My mom did a great job because ever since I was born, she would put me into any type of sporting activity with hearing teams.
— Nyle DiMarco
As a working mom, I struggle to find time to work out and go for runs. I usually run two to three times a week and work out with a trainer once a week. I try to go for a longer run on Sundays.
— Norah O'Donnell
My mom never went to college, so she just assumed the writer identity, and that was always really inspiring to me. It's not something you need nine levels of education for. It's really an identity that you claim for yourself, and then you have to make yourself one.
