Quotes About Stage Moms

#1. I moved to L.A., and I lived in the Oakland Apartments, which is this notorious hub for actor children and their stage moms. For the first few years that I lived there, Hilary Duff and Frankie Muniz frequented the apartments. I was much younger than them at the time.

Britt Robertson

#2. 'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.

Rob Sheffield

#3. The extraordinary's the norm.

Clive Barker

#4. [On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.

Moms Mabley

#5. That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.

Leila Aboulela

#6. You want me to make you, remember? I want to make you.

Amanda Usen

#7. The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#8. No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.

Thomas Hobbes

#9. I could end this with a moral,
as if this were a fable about animals,
though no fables are really about animals.

Margaret Atwood

#10. The writer is often faced with two choices
turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it. The writer who chooses the former soon runs out of energy and produces elegantly tired fiction.

Chinua Achebe

#11. A classic, navy blue blazer is my staple. It's a look that can take you from office meetings to dinner out with friends or family.

Tommy Hilfiger

#12. Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name
I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure is the flow'r.

Ayn Rand

#13. This Life is a fleeting breath, And whither and how shall I go, When I wander away with Death By a path that I do not know.

Louise Chandler Moulton

#14. I love working with directors who have good taste. It's incredible when a director can say something and things open up for you. I went to The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and some of my best experiences on sets have been working with other alums.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

#15. If there was one thing she knew by then, by age twenty-two, it was that she had to get far away and stay away. Here in his world she was trapped in an intolerable corner, which seemed to grow tighter and tighter each year. And now no place in America felt right.

Nicole Mones