"My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It’s not worse than anybody else’s life." ― Jeffrey Donovan Topic(s): Mom More From Jeffrey Donovan "Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said ‘you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.’ I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am." More In Mom "Mom worked with autistic children."― Isabel Lucas "O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself."― Louis Aragon "I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!"― Gwen Stefani