'Blood Feast' is my favorite of Lewis' films. When we shot 'Serial Mom,' and I showed them the infamous tongue scene, one of the female crew members said, 'I hate when a guy does that.'
— John Waters
I had two parents who were doctors, and my mom was valedictorian in multiple classes.
— John T. Chambers
I couldn't wait to get out, and at 14, I moved into a three-room Georgetown town house with Dad. I never went back. When they eventually sold the house, in 1984, Mom had a goodbye party for 'Merrywood.' I refused to go.
— John Dickerson
My mom is, like, my unofficial publicist.
— John DeLuca
I was born on March 3, 1970, as Mom and Dad's stardom was nearing its peak, while The Johnny Cash Show, was airing regularly on network TV.
— John Carter Cash
My own back yard, and my mom and dad's back yard, is where I learned about tomatoes and weeds and daily maintenance.
— John Bytheway
Mom only gets angry when I don't visit her enough. She raised six kids to be 100 percent independent and work for everything we achieve. I mean, we don't expect anything for free.
— Joey Chestnut
My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.
— Joely Fisher
My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya.
— Joel Madden
When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.
— Joe Theismann
When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.
— Joe Biden
My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.
— Jodie Foster
I thank my mom... I thank God for my mom every day because I think if it wasn't for her, who knows?
— Joanna Krupa
Chip is like that kid, like the five-year-old kid that's trying to make his mom breakfast, and there's milk everywhere.
— Joanna Gaines
My dad's my biggest fan. When I went to college, my dad came into my life in full-on dad mode. I was doing comedy, and he was so excited for my comedy, whereas my mom wasn't. So we bonded through comedy.
— Jo Koy
A lot of people ask why I don't talk about my dad, and I want to, I just don't have that many stories. When he moved out, he moved to a different state, so it was just my mom and I.
Certain stories, like my mom leaving when I was 15-years-old to go back to China because she didn't quite assimilate like we did, that was a moment that was very sad in my life.
— Jimmy O. Yang
My mother's brother became the undersecretary of the interior for Nixon, which did cause a little drama in my family because I was going to riots and everything, but he turned out great and gave us a nice cheque for an AIDS benefit we had for the 'Serial Mom' premiere.
Al Davis was the first to know about my decision to retire, and Mom was second.
— John Matuszak
Mom would talk about Eric Sevareid and Murrow and Howard K. Smith the way other parents talk about sports figures.
My mom had an encounter with the KKK when she was, I think, 7 years old in North Carolina. She snuck into a cross burning. I'm so lucky she didn't get caught, because I wouldn't be here.
— John David Washington
Mom was very protective of me. Her hands were gentle, and her touch was soothing. She always talked quite a bit, but she was bright and affectionate.
Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.
— John Boehner
My mom says it's an American version of the French name Jolie. My dad says I'm named after Al Jolson.
I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.
I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.
— Joel Kinnaman
I'll tell ya this: I come from an educated family. My father was an attorney representing blue collar workers, and my uncle was a chemical engineer... on my mom's side, all my uncles were engineers - all ten of them.
— Joe Piscopo
I remember my mom saying that when I was little, I had this light that shined really big, and that she'd watched my light become very dark.
— Jodie Sweetin
Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.
— Jodi Picoult
My mom's father came from a family of 11 children who came over from the island of Ischia, Italy, and settled in Providence, RI. Her mother was part of the large community of French-speaking Canadians who settled in Woonsocket, RI.
— Joanna Going
My mom always tells me, 'Joan, you're the brightest star. Embrace your strength and your power when you walk into a room.' So I always have that in me to have that confidence.
— Joan Smalls
Whatever I talk about onstage is just my story. My fan base is broad... We all have the same mom; it's just that ours has an accent.
I was raised Catholic primarily by my mom's side of the family. But at 18, I found out there was an adoption in the family, and that I was of Russian Jewish descent on my mom's side. After that, I started to look more into the philosophies and culture of Judaism.
— Jinkx Monsoon
My mom worked as a manager at a high-end fashion place, so she was always a pretty stylish woman.
I was really raised by three women - my mom, and I have two older sisters, one nine years and one 11 years older - so I'm happy to have that many women in the house.
— John Tesh
I'd be in elementary school all week, and then on the weekend, my mom would take us to Kauai or to the Big Island or to California for a contest. That was really fun.
— John John Florence
When she died, Mom left me her letters and journals. Windows into things I would have been too young to understand when she was alive, or too busy, or too much of a know-it-all.
My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.
— John Collison
Hedwig is on a quest; she's on a quest as much as Jason and the Argonauts, as much as the boy in 'A.I.' She's looking for something. She's looking for her other half, and she's on tour. Monsters, Cyclops - maybe they're her mom? - appear on various islands.
— John Cameron Mitchell
I remember this vividly: It was 1977, and I was in Sears with my mom. And I saw this display, and it was for 'Love Gun.' I bought the record just because of the look of that display. Because I really loved monsters.
— John 5
In 1987, when I was 19, I was studying musical theater at Boston's Emerson College. My sister, Tricia Leigh, told me about a summer acting retreat in Italy. Mom paid, so off we went.
I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered.
— Joel Salatin
I felt there was a lot of love in my house. And my mom was, you know, the basis of all that.
— Joe Torre
My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree and spend an hour a day punching my heavy bag.
— Joe Frazier
I had always wanted to be on TV; my mom told me that when I was little, I told her I wanted to be a 'modeler,' because that's what I called actors on TV.
I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.
— JoBeth Williams
Every mom is ready to get her life and body back.
— Joanna Garcia
You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.
— Joan Cusack
What makes me laugh is hearing the stuff about my son or the stuff about my mom. I was a big fan of Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy; they talked a lot about their moms and their kids. Those are the things that inspired me to do stand-up.
My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.
— Jimmy Smith
