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Mother Quotes
"Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless."
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"Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows."
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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 gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised."
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"This is my present, you know. My present from Mother."
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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 grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father."
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"My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing."
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"My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt."
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"I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year."
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"Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing."
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"My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of."
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"I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"I was brought up in a whorehouse in Peoria. My mother and father lived there and worked there."
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"I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her."
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"A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in."
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"I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me."
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"To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother."
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"I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother."
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"Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth."
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"I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy."
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"My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!"
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"Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes."
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