Willam Belli Quotes

I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two journals. It's a great thing to do as a mother - you forget a lot as you go along, but reading over what you've written brings all the memories back.

I have to say, creating memories is so important to me that I did a book about creating memories for your family.

My name is Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, but people know me as Bernie Mac. My mama, God rest her soul - she used to call me Beanie. Used to say, 'Don't you worry about Beanie. Beanie gonna be just fine. Beanie gonna surprise everyone.'

I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.

Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history.

For my 50th birthday, my cousin Helmut gave me the most profound, beautiful, and striking present. He made books out of my dad's slide photographs, which were stored and forgotten. Looking at those books made me cry.

I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.

My mom and dad did something special when they made me.

Mom and I are playing fictionalized characters of ourselves in 'Masaba Masaba.' The series is a slice of our lives, and reliving key moments, even though fictionalized, took me down memory lane.

I grew up watching 'Gigi.' My grandmother had it, and I watched it there.

I can remember, as a child, the happy days of us all piling into the car and going to the drive-in. And that was a weekly routine for my father. He was a proud black man, and that all sort of vanished as America began to export jobs.

There was always laughter in our house. And I have great memories of my dad making an Ulster fry on a Saturday morning. They were legendary even though he couldn't really cook.

I wrote 'Me and Ma' to celebrate a beautiful phase of my life with people.

'Manam' will always be close to my heart, and I will cherish the the memories of shooting with my grandfather all my life.

It feels like I've been singing since I was born, and I have so many great memories with my family and friends centred around music.

Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with my aunts and my mom to my grandma.

My earliest memory of music has to be watching my mother play the santoor.

Seeing photographs of my dad, Bert, on the beach with a knotted handkerchief on his head to avoid getting sunburn still brings a smile to my face.

My dad used to take me and my brothers to the park to play football all the time. I remember every moment.

'The Joy Luck Club' is not a perfect film. But, I distinctly remember watching it with my mom - and bursting into tears after the screening!

A long time ago, my grandfather used to play blackjack with me, when I was very small, and I quite enjoyed that.

Jasmine - it brings back memories of India with my parents.

Photography was a big part of our family.

I was blessed to have my son, ZZ, doing it; he managed to pull nothing but the truth out of me. Put all that aside, and you think how strange it is to watch a movie about some small, but important, part of your life.

My mom and I used to dance to the Jackson 5 in our living room.