I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.
I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails. But I have two sisters and a mother, and we're Latin, so we gossip.
And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.
But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.
My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before.
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.
Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.
I was dictating to my mother when I was 5.
But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.
These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.
I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?