My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.

I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.

My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy very reserved kind of child. But obviously something changed!

I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am.

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom I see what the fuss was all about!

I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom a working mom if you have a partner if you don't. It's the best job in the world and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.

My mother smokes me out. We'll get these long periods of me thinking I'm too busy to call her up or e-mail her and she'll send me something. My mom's a real whiner. I love her to death but she always sends me these 'woe is me' things. I think she might be Jewish. I'm not sure. She's Baptist-Jewish which is a double whammy.

When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical.

My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt who played a big part in my life was a little bit more reserved because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.

It's hard either way at home or on the bus I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears.

I also think a Hot Mom is someone who can connect with what's current in her kids' world.

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

I am a single mom and I'm the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that's just the way it is. I don't think my son even knows any different.

I think I'd be a great mom honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump.

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in children and teaching and writing.

I want my daughter to be proud of me and look up to me. I think early on in my pregnancy I realized that to be the mom I want to be I had to change my life and that's what I'm doing.

I think a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me I've always been a kinder better person awake than sleep-deprived!

When you think of couponing you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.

I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible classy man. He was such a great father and such a great husband in so many ways and we lived through some pretty tough times losing my mom. When I see all that he did I think 'Wow that's a really wonderful man.'

I think my mom put it best. She said 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

I like to write and draw and paint and my mom's an artist so I think I get caught up in thinking 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad ' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.

When I was a new mom I used to think that life was going to be balanced and I strived for that. But life is crazy!

I think I'm a really hands-on mom.