Rick Moranis Quotes

I have memories of my grandfather Kirkman making mashed potatoes that were so good because they tasted like a bowl of butter. I love my mom's brownies. My favorite thing about both of those recipes is that someone else made them for me.

You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama.

In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that I associate with care and love, from relatives or special restaurants like the kind elderly man who dusted seasoning salt on French fries at the corner burger joint.

There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and cousins all around, and I thought everybody lived like that.

Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable.

I love those shows where they go to all the greasy diners in America.

Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.

I've liked being Jewish in America - there's a secular version of Jewishness there that's more about bagels and jokes than going to synagogues.

Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.

I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.

I'm very spiritual and I'm Jewish by faith. I'm not a practising Jew, I'm more of a recreational Jew. I celebrate the holidays and I try to inform my kids about their heritage because I think we all at some point have to defend our heritage and if they get picked on I want them to know why.

Of course I love cooking Eastern European food because I'm a Jew, but I also love making roast chicken. I love making Hungarian goulash. There are a lot of egg noodles in my cooking.

My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.

The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.

My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.

I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all my time angry that she didn't give me the hugs I thought I needed, or I could understand that she hugs differently. It's not a spread-open-the-arms, 'come here' hug. She hugs by sheltering me from her worries.

I love a good Roy Rogers or Shirley Temple, and I had to give those up. And Philly cheesesteaks. I love Philly cheesesteaks, and now they really aren't around anymore.

Bless my mom. Mom is everything to me.

I'm like your mother, your sister, whatever.

My roots have never left me... because the very first memory I have is my mom singing and me singing with her.

My bar mitzvah, I went to my nan's, and she made kugel.

My last meal on Earth? The obvious answer is a plate of my mother's scrambled eggs.

I have a mother back there in Illinois who is old and feeble. I haven't seen her this many a year and haven't been a good son to her, yet I love her better than anything in this life.

The women here are the ones that hold the families together. So if my mom were to be unhappy with me, in a way, it would be like I would have lost my entire family.