My mother was a Swede who grew up in Denmark. When I go there, I visit the street where she grew up and look at her house, which is still there, and the snowberry bush, from which she ate some berries and had to have her stomach pumped.

My first and strongest memories about perfume come from childhood, from my mother, and they are a complex blend of her private and public selves.

My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.

My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.

I know I've got a lot of my mother in me.

My mother had to tailor what I watched.

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

My father was what you would call a cowboy, a vaquero; he worked out in the ranches with cattle. And my mother came from farmers down in the valley.

To help my mother, I started working as a workshop helper. There I learned welding and other tools.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

When you become a mother, you respect your mother so much more.

When my mother threw a party, even as a kid, she'd call me in and say, 'Organize it for me.'

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.

The great-great-grandfather of my mother was probably using gelatins.

But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics.

Tamil is almost like my mother tongue and for quite some time, I had been concentrating on Telugu.

What I was really into as a kid, anything that drove my mother crazy or made her nervous, and not much has changed.

My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.