I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman. — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian. — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher. — Jim Parrack Copy Share Image
Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
My mother was an English teacher and she imbibed the habit of reading, and encouraged me to participate in debates and the… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure… — Matt Wagner Copy Share Image
My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
