"I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me."

"My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run."

"My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too."

"I'm like your mother, your sister, whatever."

"I've always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother in the '40s because there was no cynicism."

"My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood - and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen."

"When I was little I would always stand in front of a mirror and cross my eyes. Then my mother would come in and say, "Stop that, nothing will ever come of it!"

"I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas."

"I loved being pregnant."

"What I do is not go outside. My hobby is that I write, so if I'm not acting or being a mom, I'm writing."

"My mom always told me one of the reasons that she was really happy in her life was that, if Dad never worked again, she was confident that she could support the family."

"I wasn't raised going to synagogue. My mother wasn't brought up with that, so I wasn't brought up with it."

"My mom and her parents had to leave because her brother had left a couple of years before and the government was really upset. They took away both my grandparents' jobs, so they couldn't make a living. They had to sell all their things. They weren't allowed to take more than $500 out of the country."

"I'm very boring. I'm a mom. I'm 34 years old."

"I am no mother, and I won't be one."

"I'm not made to be a mother."

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."

"Better a serpent than a stepmother!"

"I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just - there wasn't a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot."

"My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get. Unless you're a banana."

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin."

"Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude."

"For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things."