Dennis Wilson Quotes

My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.

Dennis Wilson

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• My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.

  

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• I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

  

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• My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.

  

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• For the naysayers that claimed 'American Family' revealed us to be vacant, unloving, uncaring morons of the materialistic '70s, this image will be proven wrong when Mom and Dad remarry... Make no mistake. This is not to emphasize the sadness of my demise but rather emphasize the love of my family and friends.

  

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• I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.

  

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• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

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• I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.

  

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• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

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• My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.

  

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• It was always going to be difficult, no matter what I'd set up, no matter how many children I have got to take my mind off things. There was always going to be a moment when I finished playing, that I was going to find tough.

  

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• My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.

  

  Dennis Wilson
  • Mom