My mom introduced me to science-fiction.
I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.
I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised.
I don't want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don't even know if I could handle a dog right now. I'm so not ready. Someday I'll be a mom but not until I'm in my 30s.
I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits.
I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.
I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.
My mom would be leaving the house and she'd say, 'Don't you pull out all of the old dresses in the attic and put on a show again!' And the door would close, and that's exactly what I'd do. The show was calling me!
After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.
We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.
My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year.
I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children.
When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'
Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.
She hits me and she beats me and she drinks. My mom is an alcoholic.
My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started.
For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.
I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.
My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.
Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.
Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump.
I also think a Hot Mom is someone who can connect with what's current in her kids' world.
Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.
Everything I am is because of my mom.
I am truly my mother's son.
I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that.
I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.
