I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too.
— Billy Preston
My mom had a heart attack, and it came out of nowhere - she was 54. My dad had leukemia for about 3 months. He was 80 when he passed. My dad had me later in life, and so he had leukemia and was alive for about 3 months between diagnosis and passing away.
— Billy Eichner
I want my mom on 'Scream Queens'. She could play someone who is convinced she's Princess Leila. That could be her disease, and then as a plot twist, we could find out that she actually is Princess Leila.
— Billie Lourd
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
— Bill Watterson
All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
— Bill Murray
My mom, dad, grandparents, we all do voices.
— Bill Hader
I'm definitely saying right now that if I had to face Shaq's mom at WrestleMania, I will not show up. I'll be scared. If Shaq shows up, no problem. Shaq's mom shows up, eh, I don't know. I think I might get the flu.
— Big Show
My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master's from NYU. She wanted to be an actress, so when she graduated, she had a dream, and she started following it. She moved to New York and took acting classes with people like Denzel Washington.
— Big Sean
I've been dying to do something with Ms. Patti LaBelle because she is so iconic. I grew up listening to her with my mom in the house. She is such a big inspiration to me.
— Big Freedia
I can remember watching other Canadians make their big breakouts and saying, 'Hey Mom, when is it going to happen for me?'
— Bianca Andreescu
My mom was a lot of a stage mother.
— Betty Buckley
I followed wrestling, but I had just kind of made peace with, like, that was my career. I'm now a mom, and I'm going to find other things to do with my life.
— Beth Phoenix
My dad dropped out of school in middle school, but he reads five or six books a week, and my mom reads about two.
— Beth Macy
We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.
— Beth Ditto
I was watching TV one day, and I'm like, 'How did those people get on TV? I'm gonna try that. Hey, mom, I want to be on TV!' And she's like, 'OK, let's get you an agent.'
— Benjamin Stockham
Mom's paintings are a very small part of the legacy she left behind.
— Benigno Aquino III
John Martyn is my biggest hero. My mom got me into his music when I was a kid. I've looked up to him more than anyone as a songwriter. And Bert Jansch is one of the pillars of acoustic music, the holy grail.
— Ben Howard
I was always into sports and a lot of physical activities. My dad was a kickboxer and a body builder. My mom was an aerobics teacher.
— Billy Magnussen
I was raised mostly by my mom.
— Billy Crystal
My mom made me watch 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was about 7 years old. When I was younger, I hated action movies and pretty much anything loud. So when she put it on, I covered my ears and ran out of the room.
Every day in our house is like Valentine's Day. I've kept it traditional with what my dad has done with my mom. Every morning, I get up and I make coffee and I bring Giuliana coffee in bed.
— Bill Rancic
I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years old.
— Bill Mumy
My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.
— Bill Gates
I wouldn't want to get Shaq's mom mad, I'll tell you that much. If she told me to do something, I would do it in a heartbeat. I wouldn't want her mad at me. That woman is serious.
I loved listening to music around the house with my mom on Saturday mornings when we would clean up.
I was born in Berlin, and when I was 6, my mom passed. When I was 9, I moved to near Washington, D.C., where I lived with my aunt and uncle. And then at 11, I moved back to Berlin. And then at 16, I got in trouble in school and moved back to the Washington area.
— Bibi Bourelly
I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16, then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.
— Betty Who
As a mom, I just can't imagine having a child who would feel discriminated against for any reason, and I would want my child in a safe environment.
— Betsy DeVos
I loved being a stay-at-home mom.
I have no idea what was the first record I ever bought, but I think I asked my mom to buy me... um... a collection of Beethoven when I was a little girl because I became very addicted to his music. It might have been piano sonatas.
— Beth Hart
When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
— Benjamin Spock
I was with my grandmother, while one of my brothers lived with my dad, and one lived with my mom. It wasn't a great situation. Acting was the one good thing I was involved in.
— Ben Mendelsohn
I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's was a casting director, so really, as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
— Ben Affleck
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
— Billy Graham
I know my mom, she'd want her death to encourage people to be open about their struggles.
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
— Billie Holiday
My wife was born and raised in Italy until she was about 9, and then she came to America, and her mom was a great cook, and they have great recipes, and whenever her mom would come into town, we would have all these friends just randomly showing up at our house, and eventually we figured out why. They wanted Mama's cooking.
I grew up with my two sisters and my mom, so it's my lot in life to be surrounded by women.
My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.
The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as much as they could, so they put me in a private school when I was super young.
I got my style from my mom, she was a classy lady.
I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses.
— Bibhu Mohapatra
My mom used to play a lot of super character-y parts... so I was sort of raised to be a clown.
— Betty Gilpin
The bottom line is that I'm very, very proud of my mom.
— Beto O'Rourke
I had one little brother and I would use him as a scapegoat to get us games. Obviously, I would get the more girly toys like dolls and Barbies, yadda, yadda, yadda. But I really wanted video games or action figures or something so I would send him to ask mom, 'Hey, I want this video game' when it was really we wanted this video game.
Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.
The only time I only really made out with a girl in high school, my mom caught me.
— Benji Madden
My mother's a Peruvian Indian from Lima who raised me and my four brothers and sisters as a single mom.
— Benjamin Bratt
I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for about four or five days afterwards. I'd be going along during the day and suddenly start crying over what had happened to the little deer.
