#moth

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#called #freaks #garland #got #her

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!' ↗

— Sally Field

#born #congratulations #doctor #i #i was born

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#buddhist #catholicism #closer #committed #disillusioned

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s. ↗

— Colin Firth

#grandmother #minister #well #which

I'll remind you of that someday , Maura says. "when you're married to a man who once looked into your eyes and promised to forsake all others. I'll remind of that after you've just had his baby and you have postpartum depression and feel as fat as cow and you are pumping milk into a plastic containers in the middle of the night while he's running around with some twenty-two-years old named Lissette. I'll remind you of that. Maura to Jess. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#family-life #motherhood #no #family

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences. ↗

— Cassandra Wilson

#count #grandmother #her #i #influences

Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in. ↗

— Peter Fonda

#community #family #father #first #friend

Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#appreciate #arty #certainly #directors #early

Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#diaper #getting #going #got #grandmother

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#career #classical #college #day #every