I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.
One of the reasons I didn't really want to do TV earlier in my career was because it is so life-consuming, and I wanted to spend time with my kids and be a mother.
I just decided to take some time off. I've been modeling since '93, '92, and that's a pretty long time. I'm a single mother and I chose to focus on her.
It took me a long time to be accepted as an actress, I think, because of the modeling and because of my mother.
When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And that was right about the time that we got a call for 'The Exorcist' interview.
You can't be the perfect member of Congress and the perfect mother 100 percent of the time. And probably, you'd be a pretty annoying person if you were.
We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves.
I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
Other Mother: [screaming] Don't leave me! Don't leave me! I'll die without you!
Other Mother: They say even the proudest spirit can be broken... with love.
Other Mother: You may come out... when you've learned to be a loving daughter!
Frances Stevens: Mother, the book you're reading is upside down!
O'Bannion: This first lick I'd like to dedicate to your mother... fuck her.
Donnie: [to his mother] How's it feel to have a wacko for a son? Rose Darko: It feels wonderful.
Diane: I want kids that love me as much as I hated my mother.
Robin: What kind of mother can't stand her own son?
Ofelia: [to Mercedes] Have you seen my mother? She's very beautiful.
Norman Bates: She might have fooled me, but she didn't fool my mother.
Mother Superior: When love and duty are one, grace is within you.
Lydia Howland: But this isn't fair. Dr. Alice Howland: I don't have to be fair. I'm your mother.
