When I was 13 years old, my mom had me start getting facials in my hometown of Los Angeles.
— Meghan Markle
It was the late '70s when my parents met. My dad was a lighting director for a soap opera, and my mom was a temp at the studio. They moved into a house in The Valley in L.A., to a neighborhood that was leafy and affordable.
It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.
— Meghan Daum
My mom is a very strong woman, very tough lady.
— Megan Thee Stallion
My mom was a rapper. I would go to the studio with her, and that definitely showed me I can do this, I wanna do this.
My mom was extremely supportive of me, but it could err on the side of... I mean, there's supportive, and then there's just full-on over-hovering.
— Megan Mullally
My family, they're story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we weren't allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day.
— Meg Cabot
My mom was like, 'Get your law degree first, become a lawyer, and then you can tell jokes on the weekends. You can be a lawyer and just throw jokes into your presentations.' Now she's like, 'Listen, you need to come up with new material.' All of a sudden, my mom's a critic.
— Maz Jobrani
I basically gave up my dream of becoming a mom.
— Mayte Garcia
I have definitely emulated my mom's style more than anyone's. But that may be mostly to do with how often I steal her clothing.
— Maya Hawke
I was trained to be very tough. My mom told me I shouldn't cry; I shouldn't be afraid of anything.
— May-Britt Moser
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.
— Max Verstappen
At Mom's funeral, mourner after mourner spoke about what a wonderful teacher she was. She was certainly devoted to her students.
— Max Boot
I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom came in contact with Elite Amsterdam; then I started modeling.
— Maud Welzen
My first real kiss was in seventh grade. It was at the movie 'Hardball,' starring Keanu Reeves, and it was with my little sixth grade girlfriend. It was the first time we were alone. Her mom was sitting two rows in front of us!
— Matt Prokop
My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.
— Matt Lauer
Ever since I lost my mom, I'm really just trying to give back. At first, we were doing screenings and paying for surgeries, but now I've been fortunate enough to team with UCLA, and we're creating a scholarship program for kids who beat cancer.
— Matt Barnes
Mom cooked a lot of turkey when I was growing up. Turkey meatloaf, turkey burgers, ground turkey shepherd's pie - my childhood was the Bubba Gump of turkey. You'd think I would be sick of it, but when I find gems like Gwyneth Paltrow's turkey meatball recipe, it's as though the fowl is no longer foul to me.
My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.
My mom was a big UGK fan.
My mom is the first female rapper I've ever known. I'm thinking, like, Okay, yeah, this is normal. Everybody's doing this.
I spent a lot of time drawing and writing little comic books, and my mom was a rapper, so I would steal her instrumentals.
My dad used to hunt ducks, and my mom would put them in the pot. We lived really modestly. We had very little money.
— Megan Fox
My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!
Coming from an immigrant background, where a lot of parents don't want their kids to be comedians, success was just showing my mom that I could make a living. I was like, if I can get my mom off my back, that was my success.
Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind.
— Maya Soetoro-Ng
My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.
— Maya Angelou
My dad signed me up for some acting classes at a place in Honolulu, and there I got to audition for some L.A.-based talent agents. I got a few 'callbacks' and so my mom and I decided to fly to California and check it out!
— Maxim Knight
Shows like 'All in the Family' and now 'Mom' - there's a tradition of tackling real issues.
— Max Greenfield
Mom developed an interest in 'heritage-language education after noticing an increasing number of students in her UCLA classes whose parents were Russian.
I watch the weirdest things. I watch old episodes of 'Golden Girls' because my mom watches it, so I grew up watching that. Sometimes I watch reruns of 'Futurama,' which is a cartoon and not based in the real world at all.
— Matthew Moy
My mom always liked the idea of us acting - me and my sister - like, one of us trying it. But my dad always thought it was a joke.
My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.
— Matt Damon
You only get one mom.
At the start of each week, I generally cook a box of quinoa, and while it's simmering, I saute onions, garlic and any veggies I have on hand in a separate pan. I season the vegetables with Spike, a seasoning blend my mom always used when I was growing up, or a little Bragg Liquid Aminos. I always add crushed red pepper and chopped fresh herbs.
My mom is a yoga instructor: 100% black with dreadlocks.
I don't feel like I sound like anybody from Houston. I don't really feel like I have that Houston flow, that Houston sound. I feel like it's a mixture of all the things I've listened to growing up, or even my mom, in a way. I feel like I have my own style.
My mom was a rapper and she really shaped me as a woman, and the music that she was letting me listen to as a child really pushed me in the direction that I'm going in right now.
My mom is elderly, and she's not doing too well, and I've literally never told her about 'Childrens Hospital,' because I fear that if she ever sees it, it will be like the coup de grace.
I love math and science, and also, my mom is a doctor. I grew up not even having an awareness that women were not supposed to be good at science.
— Megan Amram
That used to be one of my greatest fears growing up: my mom would get sick and then she wouldn't be able to go to work and then there is no food or money for rent.
— Mazie Hirono
When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, 'I think I heard you say lawyer.'
There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.
— Maya Rudolph
Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
— Maxim Gorky
My mom really raised me, so I took her name before I ever thought about having a career. It was for personal reasons. My birth name is actually Max Deitch.
— Max Casella
Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
— Maurice Sendak
The face of America's eviction epidemic is a mom with kids.
— Matthew Desmond
There was always an unspoken generosity about my mom.
I was cold-calling agents when I was, like, 9 years old, and I was like, 'Mom, I need this thing called a headshot.'
— Matt Bomer
