For me, my mother is everything.

I came out of the womb drawing on everything; I used to draw on my mother's white furniture and her white walls with her…

— Aldis Hodge

My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it.

— Esai Morales

My mother dreamed dreams for Joaquin and for me long before we could dream them for ourselves.

— Julian Castro

I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. My mother's battled depression, so I understand…

— Dorothy Hamill

I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the…

— Donatella Versace

My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.

— Dr. Dre

My mother is a huge fan of my work. I told her about 'Coraline' long before the film was made, and she got the…

— Henry Selick

I was completely unconventional in everything, which my mother found very difficult. I was a huge tomboy.

— Toyah Willcox

My mam worked for 41 years. She was a single working mother. I think I always had that mentality of you can do everything.…

— Laura Whitmore

I was really, really stagnating and getting bored in the steady work of television and didn't really know what movies I would be making…

— Alex Graves

The reality is that the work I do is not private work. I bring all my secrets, my life, to my work. Anybody who's…

— Andy Garcia

My sketchbook became everything to me.

— Steve Carr

Everything I have experienced and learned in football led me towards one day becoming a coach.

— Roberto Carlos

Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think…

— Jane Siberry

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So…

— Robert Caro