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I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

I was clearly brought into the whole thing about acting by my mother. She loved the theater. She had a very pleasant singing voice, which she used to sing for her ladies' club.

A lot of the actors I knew threw in the towel when they became mothers. I couldn't do that financially, and I didn't want to - but I was knackered all the time.

I always knew my mom was a good actress.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

For as long as I've been acting, I have been very lucky to be paired with really great actresses playing my mom.

My mother is a hardcore actor's actor. She's not a celebrity. She really isn't... And so her main concern was that I not fall into the auditioning-is-my-life syndrome.

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.

My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.