Keith Coogan Quotes

I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name.

I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and I just got stuck with Madonna.

I was named after my two uncles. Roger Lee and Richard Allen. They simply changed the spelling to Leigh-Allyn to make it more feminine.

Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.

Skylar is my first name and Astin is my middle name, and my real last name is Lipstein. When I was 15, I think my first agent just kind of did it for me. I'm not ashamed, I'm not embarrassed, but she said it was just less specific to one thing and she kind of chopped it off. But forever to my friends I will be Skylar Lipstein.

My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.

I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.

I was named after my mother's maiden name.

My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.

Whenever I'm in Edinburgh, which I visit often, I always try to hop on a train to Kirkcaldy to visit the art gallery, where my grandfather was convenor for 36 years, to revisit the marvellous paintings from my childhood - as do other family members.

I was a Sheffield United fan from when my grandad, who's sadly passed away now, got a season ticket for me when I was four.

Stark was my late Grandmother's maiden name. When I joined the acting union in the UK 'Oliver Jones' was taken so I had to come up with something else!

I'm making a fresh start. That's another reason for the name change from Lord Steven Regal to William Regal here in the WWF.

Graham was my father's second name, so I took Graham because Lukas Graham sounded cool.

I had a friend named Vasil Rusev in my rowing classes. I've always liked that name. When I first started in WWE, I had the opportunity to choose a name, and I choose Rusev.

I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband's name, so now I'm Neil Patterson.

I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.

I decided I was gonna call myself cause Gucci Mane cause that was my father's name. His nickname was Gucci Mane. That's what my grandmother called my father. People would call me Gucci Mane every now and then, but honestly, that was his name.

I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.

I'm actually named Matthew William Kearney: my middle name is named after my grandfather.

I was such a mama's boy that no one imagined that I could come into the film line. She wanted me to do a bank job.

I used to live in Devon when I was 8 years old. My mum, my grandma, and grandpa are all British.

I was christened Duncan Zowie Jones.

My grandad was the most wonderful man. He was a bit like me. He was basically a country bumpkin but he did well; he became managing director of quite a successful company but all he really wanted to do was to come home, put his disgusting old trampy clothes on and go for walks across the country.

The only thing I got of my granddaddy's is a necktie.