Mother Teresa was part of a conspiracy to convert Hindus to Christianity.

I was, I think, extremely lucky, because the minute I saw my face plastered on 'Time' magazine in the subway with my mother, I just said, 'Wow.' And it made 'Time' magazine come down to life-size scale.

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

My father was Greek, but he turned French during the war, and my mother was French. So I'm French, but I have Greek blood.

There are a lot of people who are very willing to put my mother on a pedestal, which is a lonely existence. She wants to dispute that so much that she will literally do anything for anybody.

I used to think that only a mother could provide unconditional love and make sacrifices.

I'm happiest walking through fields, on beaches, and over riverbanks. Nature is my surrogate mother.

My mother could make something out of nothing - and everything started from scratch.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From the time they met, in 1917, they were lifelong friends of sorts, though each was a bit wary of the other.

Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed, and she would share her dreams with me.

Yes, I slouch. My mother tells me that.

When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!

If I could pass along anything that my mother or my sisters taught me, I feel like my kids would be very well off.

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

When I was growing up, my mother used to say, 'Don't ever bring no nappy-head Black girl to my house.' In the deep South in the '50s, '60s and '70s, the shade of your Blackness was considered important. So I, unfortunately, grew up hearing that message.