The mother-in-law is the centre of a family.

Who hasn't had an argument with their mother-in-law?

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

I am very close to my mother-in-law, Lee, we see each other often.

A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.

I use mother-in-law jokes, kid jokes, tax jokes - anything that works.

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

My mother-in-law's from Norway, and she's always liked old-school remedies.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.

A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.

My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.

The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.

My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.

Even before marriage I used cook delicious dishes for my wife and mother-in-law on Jamai Sasthi.

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'

I have no problem putting my feet up and watching football but my mother-in-law is always doing stuff.

My mother-in-law said, 'One day I will dance on your grave.' I said 'I hope you do; I will be buried at sea.'

The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the oil rig.

I think, more than my husband, my mother-in-law gets excited and proud and what not whenever she sees me on-screen.

Someday I will get married, and I should be able to watch my films with my children, mother-in-law, and father-in-law.

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

Both my mother-in-law and Rajiv made it easy for me. I feel very Indian and am not conscious of being an Italian in India.

My mother-in-law thinks I'm more beautiful than all the other faces around. She keeps encouraging me to take up more work.

You know you've built a product that can hit the mainstream when your wife, your father, and your mother-in-law can get involved.

I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'

I was extremely close to my mother-in-law and after she, and later my father-in-law passed away, I continue to feel their presence.

I do most of the cooking at home, and both my mom and my mother-in-law are excellent chefs. However, I wouldn't call myself a chef.

You either get to play a vicious mother-in-law who hates the bahu, or makkhis and naagins. There is no creative satisfaction in TV.

My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we're having a change. We're going to let her in.

I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: 'Keep her moving sir; we're stock-taking.'

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.

Personally, I wear a lot of my mother-in-law's chiffons and my mother's silk. But when I buy saris for myself, then they have to be understated.

My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.

I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she's only got one major fault - it's called breathing.

The final scenes in 'Rain' are just like my mother-in-law when she would sit under the window in my sitting room - one foot in the other world and just holding on.

I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.

The mother-in-law came round last week. It was absolutely pouring down. So I opened the door and I saw her there and I said, 'Mother, don't just stand there in the rain. Go home.'

My mother-in-law is an awesome cook, but I have grown up eating the food cooked by my mother. I must say that both of them have their own area of specialisation, when it comes to cooking.

Indian-ness, love for your country, is complicated. For every person, there is a different way that you show respect for your country... my mother-in-law will say karmayogi is the way to go - do your work.

Honestly, people can write anything they want about me and I could care less, but once you start writing stuff about my family, my wife and my daughter and son or my mother-in-law, then you're drawing a line.

The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.'

When I hit the scene, there was Billy Connolly and Max Boyce. It was all mother-in-law and Irish jokes, and we broke the mould. Now there are thousands of comedians out there, and I don't think I can be above it all.

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