Quotes About Perception

Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.

I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description.

Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.

You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

'He is very ugly,' said his mother.

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

I'm not saying my mother-in-law is fat - because she is of reasonable size, and I care about her and her self-image.

I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?

I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.

I can't say I really see much difference between my son and daughters except that my girls will occasionally make me a sandwich and my son won't.

Mother always said you were greedy.

Mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.

When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a photograph of their mother and cut out the eyes.

My mother made it seem perfectly normal for thousands of people to be cheering me, as if there was nothing special going on. I thought all children must live as I did.

They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.

Sometimes I'm afraid that my daughter might think that I get my hair done for a living.

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

I'll see a beautiful girl walking up to me and I'll think, Oh, my God, I can't believe my good luck. But then she'll say, 'Where's your son?' or 'My mother loves you'.