#mother

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me. ↗

— Billy Strayhorn

#grandmother #i #little #little things #me

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#about #being #cleans #everyone #interesting

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#effect #essentials #everything #gets #motherhood

My mother never really thought I could become anything. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#become #could #i #mother #never

The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love. ↗

— Erich von Stroheim

#been #begging #brother #father #four

My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly. ↗

— Mark Strong

#accordingly #around #baby #bad #behavior

My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of. ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#i #mother #only #person #scared

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#doing #foot #mother #never #set

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#course #english #fantastic #i #i think

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes. ↗

— Amy Tan

#different #displaced #eyes #fresh #get