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Mom Quotes


"I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl."


"Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year."


"I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again."


"I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's."


"I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom."
Mom,


"I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person."
Mom,



"I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere."


"When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces."


"My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger."


"When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical."


"Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds."


"I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself."


"My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls... that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe."


"Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her."
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