Career Quote by Joey Heatherton

My parents were very proud of me. After they passed, my career doesn't mean as much to me.

— Joyce Carol Oates

My parents have always wanted me to pursue a dignified career.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

My mom had always been big on education. She was the first woman in our family to go to college, and she often reminded…

— Lecrae

Let Girls Learn issue has always been personal for me. I grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago where…

— Michelle Obama

I decided that I wanted to be an artist in middle school, and although my mom wasn't fully on board with me becoming a…

— Nayeon

My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art.…

— Bar Paly

I think my parents were surprisingly cool with me entering the arts. Although, I think they thought it was going to be a phase,…

— John Cho

Getting a good education was of immense importance to my parents.

— Roger Allam

I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural…

— Elizabeth Hand

I was hellbent on going to drama school, but my mother, rightly, panicked and persuaded me to go to university on the grounds that…

— Phyllida Lloyd

Both of my parents were incredibly supportive of me being in any arts, because they were both in the arts. They weren't the typical…

— Aya Cash

My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were…

— Denise Juneau