They had asked for me because they wanted a younger girl, but Mum asked if she could bring Kylie along because she didn’t want there to be any jealously. – Dannii Minogue
My mother had a lot of phobias. She’s pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically. – Dane Cook
I ruefully admit that if the cat is asleep in my chair – which she regards as hers, of course – I tend to leave her there and take the other one. – Guy Gavriel Kay
An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid. – Gary Miller
Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away. – Charles V
My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young. – Gilbert Gottfried
My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it. – Cillian Murphy
Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced. – Ethel Merman
Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread! – George Rogers Clark
There’s a Nina Simone record that I love, ‘Live at Vine Street,’ and she sings flat on it. I can imagine she might’ve told the record label, ‘Oh, God, you’re not releasing that!’ But I’m glad they did. – Damien Rice
Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. She ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund – doing favors for oppressive regimes, and many others, in exchange for cash. – Donald Trump
I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character. – Debbie Reynolds
Yeah, I definitely wanted to do a kids’ movie because I have a kid. I want to do things that my daughter can see soon – when she is old enough to know what a movie is. – David Arquette
My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences. – Cassandra Wilson
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. – Gloria Steinem
Ann Romney has been front-and-center. She’s held a lot of town halls, a lot of campaign rallies, on her own, separate from her husband. And she is dynamite out on the campaign trail. – Monica Crowley
My mom has a rare talent for being able to open up the refrigerator, and with the peas, the leftover eggs, the cream, the spinach, the cheese, and a little rice, she can just whip up incredible risotto. – Cote de Pablo
I hope I’m Jessica Tandy, you know. I hope I’m onstage, and I fall over at 85 or something with everyone applauding thinking that it was a joke, you know, ‘There she goes again,’ and I’m just gone. I’ve gone to Heaven. – Elizabeth Banks
About six weeks later, she called because she had found a dress. And then she said yes. – Maury Povich
If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go. – Gordie Howe
I have a friend in New York who’s a stylist and I went over to her place because she’s got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it’s all stuff that I brought over. – Famke Janssen
Watching Jodie on this is incredible; it’s the perfect role for her. It’s so intense and so emotional. She just jumped right into it and is so professional. – Erika Christensen
My grandmother Izzy taught me to balance her checkbook when I was 6 years old. She would sign the checks after I paid the bills. I had a chuckle with my grandmother recently on how ‘unbalanced’ her checkbook must have been years ago. – Mary Callahan Erdoes
As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic. – Maureen O’Hara
My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around. – Gary Hume
