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"My mother keeps me abreast of all the hometown things."
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"I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps."
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"I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man."
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"I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician."
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"This is my present, you know. My present from Mother."
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"People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you."
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"I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays."
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"Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother."
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"My mother had morning sickness after I was born."
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"It's hard to sleep at night because I'm still wondering where my mother is."
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"I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that."
Right


"So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time."
Time


"And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived."
Career


"I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening."
Evening


"It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies."
Movies


"And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days."
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"I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies."
Movies


"So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies."
Movies


"My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there."
Mother


"The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up."
Living
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