My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!
I know what I want to look like. I don't want to look trashy. I want mothers to be able to look at me and not have to close their kids' eyes!
If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.
I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.
My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
I think a lot of mothers are doing as I am: starting up their own ventures as their children grow older, and having a kind of second blooming.
In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.
I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.
My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.
My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.
I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.
When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.
My mother never, ever told me about evilness. She only saw the beautiful things... she wanted to protect me from it.
I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.
As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.
