"My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania."

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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."

"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."

"My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you."

"I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out."

"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."

"But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome."

"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."

"I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there."

"My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?"

"I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to."

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"My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town."

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