My mom bought me an 'Anne of Green Gables' journal. And I just remember thinking it was so cool, and I could write anything in it.
— Jurnee Smollett-Bell
I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!
— Julie Bowen
My mom came to the U.S. very young, and then she married very young. But she was never American. She was always Scottish and would make sure that I knew that I was, too.
— Julianne Moore
There was a modeling agency in my little town where I got my start, but the opportunity came to work in Japan when I was fourteen. My mom went with me until I was seventeen. Her only stipulation was that I had to keep my schoolwork up. My mom was great. She is still my best friend.
— Julia Voth
I never thought about college, but my mom thought about it for me. I knew 100 percent it wasn't for me.
— Juice Wrld
I was raised in Maryland. My mom was born in London, and my dad was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
— Jovan Adepo
My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American television was reprehensible, so I was raised on the BBC. I kind of agreed with her. We watched American news, though.
— Joss Whedon
I wanted to be a pro wrestler, but my mom didn't let me. I used to make videos and stuff in the backyard. I had a buddy named Daniel Decker, and we used to have a tag team called the 'Deck Garra Era.' We used to make video after video. We were the tag team champions, but then we turned on each other.
— Josh Segarra
My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' She screamed, 'Mom! Dad! It's Heath Ledger!
— Josh Hartnett
My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12.
— Jordin Sparks
We were pretty fortunate that we lived in a very supportive household, so our mom and dad, they didn't care what we did. They just wanted us to do something. Whatever we're passionate about, they would support us.
— Jonathan Scott
I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don't remember sticking my hand in, but it sheared off the three middle fingers and left me with a pinkie and a thumb.
— Jon Tester
When I'm 19, I'll still be living with my mom, but I'm going to be doing music and acting. I can picture it really vividly.
— JoJo Siwa
I actually have a pig collection in my cabin: all types of old wood hand-carved pigs that my mom started for me as a housewarming gift.
— Johnny Iuzzini
My mom was a rescue veterinarian, and I grew up helping her nurse injured animals back to health. Any deer hit by a car, fox caught in a trap, whatever it was that got hurt, everyone brought them to my mom.
I come from labor country. My mom was a teacher and was very involved in the teachers' union.
— John Wells
My dad painted cars for a living, and my mom graduated from college when I was a college freshman myself.
— Julie Sweet
I'm an actress and I want to act, and I'm a mom and I want to be with my kids, and it's trying to find a way to do both.
— Julianne Nicholson
My mom worked as a psychiatric social worker. She was interested in people, and I guess I am, too. So we would talk about the people that we knew, and why they behaved the way they did.
I remember my mom being very scared the first few auditions. My parents are very supportive, but they're also very realistic, which is great.
— Julia Garner
My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those two has been sort of the goal of my life.
My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.
— Joshua Roman
Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.'
— Josh McDowell
My mom worked as an education director.
— Josh Gondelman
I used to go to London by myself when I was 16. I think I got it from my mom. My mom was the type to just always just go off somewhere, wherever. She's a goer.
— Jorja Smith
I was always okay with the fact that I was taller and bigger than everybody else growing up. My mom, my dad, and my friends always told me I was beautiful.
My family actually owns an MMA promotion company, so it's kind of a family deal. It's called Fight Sports Entertainment, and they throw amateur fights in California. Because of that, I've given my mom a lot of the fighters to fight in a show.
— Jonathan Lipnicki
I was raised by a single mom. I spent most of my time in daycare.
— Jon Hamm
My mom loved my Christmas music, so I did an awful lot of it!
— Johnny Mathis
I love pies of all types. I especially love rhubarb. I grew up with rhubarb growing on our property, and my mom would make rhubarb pies and jam. I have to admit, though, my earliest memories of rhubarb were not fond ones, but over time, I grew to love it.
My mom made me a Shawn Michaels costume when I was a kid. I wore it every day and ran around the house dancing like him.
— Johnny Gargano
Liberal censors are the worst. I don't remember any trouble with 'Serial Mom' or 'Cecil B. Demented' or any of them. Except 'Cry Baby.'
— John Waters
There was a substantial vinyl collection in my home, and my mom played piano. We, the children, were enrolled in piano lessons very early on.
— Julie Payette
We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things.
My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
— Julian Casablancas
I used to read music books when I was 13. My mom was working at a library. She's a librarian. I would get my mom to check out any kind of books that had anything to do with the music industry. I read a lot about royalities, publishing, marketing, stuff like that.
— Juicy J
I'm a mom. I work. I have a house to clean, things to organize. We all have certain similar needs, and I address them.
— Joy Mangano
I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.
My mom works at an accounting firm; my dad's a math teacher.
— Joshua Henry
I got my first tattoo when I was 16 years old and I went with my mom to get it done - she has a bunch too so we're tattoo buddies now.
— Josh Hutcherson
My mom used to call me Joshy Boucher. I watched 'The Waterboy' so much, my mom started calling me Joshy Boucher. True story.
— Josh Allen
My mom would get up every day at 4 A.M. and worked two jobs. I always felt I was the poorest kid on the block. I had a chip on my shoulder about being broke.
— Jorge Masvidal
I wanted long hair my whole life. When I was a little kid, my mom would be like, 'We get our hair cut once a month.' So I just always got my hair cut.
— Jonathan Van Ness
If you have, especially with siblings, something like the competition for mom's affection, it just never goes away.
— Jonathan Krisel
For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.
As kids, my mom would always let us help bake, and if we behaved, we got to lick the beaters clean.
When I was a kid, I would come home from school, and my mom would buy the industrial-size Famous Amos cookies or Chips Ahoy when I was lucky. And I would sit in front of the TV set with a glass of milk... and I would dump cookies in there, smash them with my spoon, and eat cookies and milk with a spoon watching 'The Dukes of Hazzard.'
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.
— Johnny Depp
