Quotes on Mom From Hollywood Hotties

TrèsSugar’s Tara Block trots out the most quotable quotes from Hollywood sons on their moms.

Mother’s Day is this weekend, and while we’re all about the relationship between moms and daughters, you can’t deny that special bond between mothers and their sons. Look no further than some of the cutest mama’s boys in Hollywood, who aren’t ashamed to bring up their mothers in interviews (even when it’s embarrassing) and have been known to have ma on their arms on award show red carpets. Check out some of the funniest, most endearing, and awkward quotes on moms from our favorite sexy stars!

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Ryan Gosling

“I think the [Ides of March] poster is just Clooney showing how much better-looking he is than me, but my mother saw something else entirely. She called me and was so excited, saying, ‘You’re on the cover of Time magazine!’ I had to say, ‘No, it’s just the poster for the movie, ma’.”

— Independent interview

Justin Timberlake

“The values my mother taught me were like, if you’re going to do something, don’t half-ass it. I remember her literally saying that to me. Like the first time I ever heard the term half-ass was coming from my mother’s lips. I was probably 8 or 9. If you’re going to do something, go ahead and throw 115 percent at it, and if you get 100 percent back, well, there you go — you’re perfect.”

— GQ interview

Freddie Prinze Jr.

Jesse Eisenberg: I can’t watch myself in interviews. My mom is always calling me and going, ‘Stop fidgeting.’

“My mom drove like Britney Spears with the steering wheel and me right here [in her lap]. I’m fine, I turned out OK.”

— On Lopez Tonight

Ashton Kutcher

“My mom was more into the yelling. She was the enforcer. She was the one that laid down the law. My dad made up the rules, but my mom laid down the law. It’s not her words, it’s her tone that sticks with me.”

— Parade interview

Jesse Eisenberg

“I can’t watch myself in interviews. I feel like I look like a wreck. My mom is always calling me and going, ‘Stop fidgeting,’ and it’s like, ‘You have no idea what it’s like, Mom.’”

— The Daily Beast interview

Bradley Cooper

“They snap my picture and put it in magazines and it seems like I am wearing the same thing every day. The best thing is your mother points that out to you — ‘Why don’t you change your shirt?’”

— Parade interview

Justin Bieber

“My mom means a lot to me. My mom gave up everything. She moved with me and believed in me. She is awesome.”

— On The Tonight Show With Jay Leno

Josh Hutcherson

“My mom is the greatest mom in the whole wide world. She’s done everything for me to make my dreams come true.”

— At People’s Choice Awards

Zac Efron

On watching the sex scenes in The Lucky One with his mom: “She was just laughing about it in a good way. She said, ‘That’s my boy!’ I think she was proud of me at the end of it, even if it was weird for her to watch. My mom is my biggest supporter.”

— People interview

Jason Segel

On doing full-frontal nudity in Forgetting Sarah Marshall: “She wasn’t really happy that I showed my penis. In true motherly fashion, she sent out a mass e-mail to my family saying, ‘I just want you all to know that in Jason’s upcoming film, he has chosen to do full frontal nudity, but please note, it is not gratuitous and is essential to the plot.’”

— USA Today interview