I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she was such an idol to me. – Katy B
Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated, and it was just a nightmare. I was a rebellious sort of choirboy. – Jesse Spencer
If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it’s a chubby kid, my mother is always like, ‘You were never like that.’ She gets so upset about it. – Kevin James
The first time I showed the tattoo, it was big news in the newspaper: ‘She has a tattoo with a snake.’ It’s not a snake. – Li Na
My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose cycling to lose weight. I was only eight at the time, so I just followed what my mum did. – Laura Trott
And so I was very grateful that I didn’t do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years. – Lynn Redgrave
My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler. – Jacob Dalton
I’ve been a fan of Loretta Devine’s, since I was a kid, from ‘Waiting To Exhale,’ and she’s been in so many of my favorite movies and television shows. – Kevin Daniels
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. – Mark Twain
I love Stella McCartney because she’s timeless and classic, and I love Isabel Marant for wearability – you don’t need ‘an occasion’ for her clothes. – Louise Nurding
I’m in love with one woman. I’ve been in love with one woman for 31 years. She is the finest human being I have ever known. – John Edwards
My wife, she likes to have things uncluttered, and if something is missing, then one has to be very careful not to ask her if it was thrown out – you have to ask her simply where it might be. – Kyle Chandler
I have been compared to Mao since we were both junior skaters. We’ve felt the rivalry since then, so we wanted to avoid each other. However, she has been my motivation. – Kim Yuna
Me mum used to always have the radio on – even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames that reason for me not doing that well at school – constant noise, really. – Karl Pilkington
Although my mother didn’t necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn’t want me to be self-conscious about my height – or to slouch. – L’Wren Scott
My mother is very funny. She is from a village; she has a typical village kind of humour. Often she says a lot of things she herself isn’t aware is a punch line. – Kapil Sharma
‘The Buccaneers’ was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television. – James Frain
But in another, I think a woman’s going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don’t think she’s not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn’t even read. – Marc Jacobs
Whoopi and I have been friends ever since she claimed she couldn’t sing on the set of Sister Act. – Jenifer Lewis
I’m a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she’s my muscle. – Katee Sackhoff
I have a girlfriend, but I don’t really want to talk about her. I won’t name her. She isn’t in show business, has nothing to do with it. So I’d rather just keep her out of it. – Luke Perry
It’s my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother’s confidante; she had been her mother’s confidante. – Jayne Anne Phillips
The genius of Kate Middleton is that she hasn’t gone too far. She’s still dressing in a way that people can relate to. – Kate Reardon
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down. – Laurie Helgoe
