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One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
Lawrence Welk
Musician · American · 1908 – 1992
I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
Nancy Sinatra
Musician · American · b. 1940
The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
Tatum O'Neal
Actress · American · b. 1963
I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.
John Ratzenberger
Actor · American · b. 1947
They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.
Willie Aames
Actor · American · b. 1960
I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!
Gil Gerard
Actor · American · b. 1943
I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.
Rosanne Cash
Musician · American · b. 1955
Congratulations are in order for Woody Allen - he and Soon Yi have a brand new baby daughter. It's all part of Woody's plan to grow his own wives.
David Letterman
Comedian · American · b. 1947
The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.
Wynonna Judd
Musician · American · b. 1964
I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.
Chevy Chase
Comedian · American · b. 1943
Rob Lowe, I've known him for a long time because I have three daughters, ya know. He's been cruising those three girls for a long time.
Robert Wagner
Actor · American · b. 1930
I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.
Georg Solti
Musician · Hungarian · 1912 – 1997
Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.
Shania Twain
Musician · Canadian · b. 1965
One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.
Lorna Luft
Actress · American · b. 1952
My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.
Rene Auberjonois
Actor · American · b. 1940
I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.
Tim McGraw
Musician · American · b. 1967
I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Candice Bergen
Actress · American · b. 1946
My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
Christopher Meloni
Actor · American · b. 1961
The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Actress · French · b. 1971
You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.
Billy Eckstine
Musician · American · 1914 – 1993
As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.
Boris Kodjoe
Actor · Austrian · b. 1973
My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?
Loni Anderson
I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.
Julie Walters
Actress · British · b. 1950
Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.
Andy Garcia
Actor · American · b. 1956
If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.
Bobby Flay
Celebrity · American · b. 1964
My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
Jim Carrey
Comedian · Canadian · b. 1962
There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.
Johnny Depp
Actor · b. 1963
Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.
Arthur Godfrey
Entertainer · American · 1903 – 1983
For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.
Alison Lohman
Actress · American · b. 1979
I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.
Uma Thurman
Actress · American · b. 1970
All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Gordon Lightfoot
Musician · Canadian · b. 1938
Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.
Dakota Fanning
Actress · American · b. 1994
Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?
Boris Becker
Athlete · German · b. 1967
And sometimes I do films so my daughter can see me work.
Kelly Lynch
Actress · American · b. 1959
So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door.
Jamie Lee Curtis
Actress · American · b. 1958
There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.
George Thorogood
Musician · American · b. 1950
Everyone is a son or daughter of god.
David Icke
Athlete · English · b. 1952
I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Actress · American · b. 1972
Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.
Diane Lane
Actress · American · b. 1965
He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her.
Neil Tennant
Musician · English · b. 1954
I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.
Nicole Kidman
Actress · b. 1967
Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.
Joan Rivers
Comedian · American · b. 1933
The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.
My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her.
Joanne Woodward
Actress · American · b. 1930
My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling.
Naomi Judd
Musician · American · b. 1946
One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.
Sigourney Weaver
Actress · American · b. 1949