A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.
— Jane Fonda
I'm nearsighted, in part, because I would read past my bedtime in the dark. I didn't want my mom to see that I was still awake.
— Jamila Woods
What's perfect for one mom might be the worst idea for another.
— Jamie Lynn Spears
I would love being the soccer mom.
Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.
— Jami Gertz
Language-wise, my mom and dad's dialect, they're pretty obscure. It's Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn't something that I got to use very much growing up. We eventually just spoke English around the house.
— James Wan
More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.
— James Levine
My mom is a hero in a lot of ways because she's the most empathetic and kind person I've ever met.
— Jake Tapper
My mom gets so upset at me when I say stuff in the press about anything political, and it drives me crazy because I say to my mom: 'I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be.'
— Jake Shears
My mom doesn't get the whole gay thing, but she loves me.
— Jai Rodriguez
I’ve always been into music. My mom and dad used to always play music in the house.
— Jade Bird
My mom was very strict. And we were very religious. So I knew that I was not allowed to do the wrong thing. And I knew that I had a home I could run to. And I had a mom.
— Jacqueline Woodson
My mom listened to a lot of house music. My dad listened to a lot of roots and dub. I've got a lot of bass. It's been in my whole life.
— Jacob Anderson
I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.
— Jacki Weaver
Mothers are all slightly insane.
— J. D. Salinger
My mom grew up in the Soviet Bloc, and she was a Tiger Mom. We didn't get away with much.
— Ivanka Trump
I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.
I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.
— Jane Elliot
I'm not just a child star. And I'm not just someone's sister. And I'm not just a teen mom.
I just want to be a good mom who makes her little girl proud.
One of my favorite things to do with my dog and my sister's dog and my mom and my sister is to go for these really long walks.
— Jamie Chung
Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.
Dad is in commercial real estate. Mom is a writer and a retired teacher.
— James Snyder
When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.
— James Franco
My mom is from Canada. Both my grandparents were from Canada.
My mom's a Christian and she loves me; that whole side of my family is Christian and I have no problem with it.
When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.
My grandparents were wealthy; my mom was not. I would walk into these worlds of privilege and then walk back into this other world. My little brother is biracial. So race and economic class and sexuality - these were always issues that were a part of my life.
My mother was a single mom whose days were spent as a customer service rep at Con Edison in downtown Brooklyn.
My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.
— Jackie Speier
My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
— J. J. Watt
There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?
— J. Cole
When I was little, I'd pick flowers wherever I traveled with my mom, then dry them, cover them with resin, and turn them into paperweights.
I was in elementary school in Mississippi, and when Katrina hit, my mom put me in home school. So ever since sixth grade, I've been home schooled, which was interesting.
— Israel Broussard
My mom wanted to be a country singer, too, so country was always being played. And my girlfriends and I used to go to concerts, like Brad Paisley, in middle school and high school.
— Jana Kramer
It takes bravery to be a young mom, and it does take bravery to let the world watch.
I love babies, and I have my nephews that I love. I have a great mom and she has raised three kids, so if I take lessons from her, I think I'll be great. All my friends have little brothers or sisters.
I came out to California to live with my mom in Orange County for a while, and then I came up to Hollywood. I had just turned nineteen. I took an acting class at Playhouse West and decided, 'Wow, I think I can do this!' I studied really hard for three years before I got an agent.
— Jamie Anne Allman
I also think a Hot Mom is someone who can connect with what's current in her kids' world.
I always figured there would be a kid audience and an adult audience, and there is. That's true for 'Hunger Games' and 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter.' And 'Maximum Ride,' for sure. In particular what happens is a lot of parents share the books with their kids, and the mom has read it, and the kids, and they talk about it.
— James Patterson
My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.
— James Altucher
I saw David Bowie in 'Labyrinth' when I was seven or eight. I told my mom I wanted a Bowie record, so we traveled to the mainland, which was, like, a three-hour trip, and I bought 'Let's Dance' and 'Tonight.' 'Let's Dance' blew my little mind. I became obsessed with it.
I have worked so hard since I was 15 years old, all because I wanted to be a mom.
— Jaime Pressly
There is an ancient tradition of how to tie the topknot that gets passed down from parent to child. In my case, my mom taught me it. So this is a tradition, and not all Sikhs know it actually.
— Jagmeet Singh
My mom was a big fan of Al Green... James Brown we weren't allowed to listen to, so of course I knew James Brown.
My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
— Jacob Dalton
My father was a Gujarati and my mom Turkish.
— Jackie Shroff
Only person who took me serious was my mom and my sister Rachael.
— J.I.D
I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
— J. B. Pritzker
You really don't need to study how to change a diaper. As a new mom, you learn pretty darn quickly!
