Pastoral Resources

My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.

But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.

My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.

Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?

My mother, she's like, She can work on herself.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of.

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

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.