My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.
When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.
My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it.
I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was broken, and she'd preserve it.
I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.
My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.
My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.
The only real experiences I've had with therapists were the ones who were working with me and my family when my mother was ill.
My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.
My mother desperately wanted to give her kids a wholesome environment, and we were born into a traditional Catholic family.
Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.
There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.
I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.
My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.
Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks like.
My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home.
