My mother is a walking miracle.
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.
I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.
My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive.
We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.
Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this.
There were people I know that got upset that I kiss people. I kiss them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me.
I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'
I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.
I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on.
Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.