Top 44 Tia Mowry Quotes

On Mother’s Day, I like to feel pampered. I like to feel celebrated. I like to feel honored. I like to feel glamorous.

I’ll go grocery shopping at the farmer’s market on a Sunday and already know what I’m going to cook for the next two, three or four days.

There’s a stigma about being vegan. Some people say it doesn’t taste great. Don’t knock it until you try it!

My mom and dad will look at me and my husband, and they’re like ‘I feel so sorry for this child! He’s not eating fish sticks and pizza!’ I’m like, ‘We try to give it to him, but he doesn’t wanna eat it!’

I remember when I was like, ‘I want to get another shot.’ And some of the other actors on ‘Sister, Sister’ were like, ‘Do you know that’s like a 1%, 2% chance for you to get another successful show? That just doesn’t happen.’ But whenever I hear, ‘No,’ or ‘You can’t,’ something inside of me just goes, ‘Oh no, yes I can!’

I have these brownies that I make that are just a home run with my family. I make them with almond butter, prune puree, walnuts, cocoa powder and whole-wheat flour, and I like them because they’re delicious, but they’re also guilt-free.

I became a vegan, and I was getting bullied on Twitter about it.

How I thrive is very simple. My son brought my perspective back to focusing on and appreciating the simple things in life. It’s about just being with my family – whether that’s waking up in bed next to my husband under the comforter and just hugging or walking down the street and holding my son’s hand.

I’ve never been discriminated against, but I have witnessed discrimination. I was talking to a director and asked why one of my friends didn’t get a particular part, and he specifically told me it was because she just had a baby and it was hard to see her as sexy.

I’m a mom. I’m a wife. I’m an actress. I’m an executive producer. I’m an author. I’m an entrepreneur, and I’m a sister and a best friend.

I’m very structured. I like planning things out. I get frustrated when they don’t go according to plan.

My house is completely organized from my closets to my drawers.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.

Money comes and goes. When you pass away it’s about what you’ve done to make this world a better place.

I was a vegan for about a year, and it was a great experience. And I became vegan not because of animal rights. I became vegan for a year for health purposes… It was just kind of a detox that I was going through.

We try to be conscious of the amount of trash we have. Having a water filter allows us to be aware of not using too many water bottles. Since I am not able to hand wash due to my schedule, I use Seventh Generation laundry detergent, and I feel less guilty.

I love yoga because not only is it a workout for your body, but also your breathing, which helps release a lot of stress. It really prepares you for the day.

I think it’s something that needs to be said – that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there’s nothing wrong with it.

It’s a twin type of telepathy. My sister and I, we share the same DNA, so on paper, we’re the same person. I knew she was pregnant, like, right away – it’s so crazy – but I asked her, and she said yes.

I think the best thing about being pregnant would definitely have to be seeing just my belly grow and seeing, like, wow, there is, you know, something inside of me.

Men are men. I’ve been married to my husband for eight years now; we’ve been together for 16 years. And I’ve found that all I have to do is keep him fed and loved, and he’s the happiest person. Men just want to be full, watching their basketball game and enjoy some hugs and kisses.

We don’t put gender roles on our marriage and our relationship. If I’m working a lot and Cory’s home, he will put Cree to bed, and if dishes need to be washed, he will wash them. So it’s not like, ‘Oh, I’m going to wait until my wife gets home, and she’s going to be doing all that.’

The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.

I feel like life imitates art, or art imitates life. I always take on roles that I’m passionate about.

At times, I feel sorry for kids who have succumbed in some kind of way to being a child actor.

People always say you never know love until you have your own child and all of that is true.

Girls are hard. They’re very hard. I love my son. I hear the relationship between mommy and son is the best. Who knows? My husband wants a girl, he really does.

Sardinia is beautiful. The people were so friendly, and the food was incredible! I also loved Florence. I spent two months there as part of a school study-abroad program. On the weekends, we would get to travel wherever we wanted, so I would explore. That was a magical time.

We need to be more supportive with everything. With body images, especially with women, showing that all sizes are beautiful. And I’m talking about in magazines, advertisement in regard to what’s sexy and what’s not sexy. We all need to be a little more supportive of each other.

Growing up, dinner was when we would sit down, the whole family, and we would talk about our days and just create memories with one another. Now some of my favorite memories are eating and making food with my son.

I gained 60 pounds during my pregnancy, but I didn’t say, ‘I want to lost 10 pounds every month!’ Instead, I said, ‘I will lose two to three pounds.’ I eventually saw progress, and that made me work harder.

Sleep is very precious to me. I love to sleep.

There’s a lot of focus on kids like Macaulay Culkin or others who had bad situations at some point in their careers and not enough focus on the people who do good like Natalie Portman or Claire Danes. It’s hard for children to have these full-time jobs with all this responsibility.

Being a mom is hard, but I don’t want people to feel like they always have to go straight to the TV dinner or go to the fast food because you have a busy, hectic life.

I’m a huge fan of Morris Chestnut. I grew up with Morris, and I know him personally.

My love for cooking began when I was young. Because my parents were in the army, they were both really busy. A lot of times I’d have to cook for the family; I’d rotate with my siblings. It started out as a chore, but as I got older, my mom started to see that I was really good at it. I became her sous chef.

I come from a mixed background – my mom’s black, my dad’s white – and I traveled around the world.

Garlic is an essential, and so is this thing called Bragg’s Liquid Aminos. It’s like a soy sauce, but it’s gluten-free and healthier. It’s a great condiment and something I always keep in my pantry.

With any free time I have, I’d take a high energy work out class at Soul Cycle, grab an outdoor bite somewhere by the beach and then finish it off by lounging at my pool.

The worst part about pregnancy would definitely have to be my nausea. I don’t know why it’s just called morning sickness because morning sickness never just happened in the morning for me and it’s not happening just in the morning for my sister.

I feel, you know, empowered because I gave life. I have a son now. I feel like I’m stronger.

Before becoming a mom, I never knew how good I had it to just spend time at a spa for a few hours. Now, those days are far and between. So when I have an hour, it’s all about the mani and pedi.

I loved getting tutored and having that one-on-one attention that you sometimes do not get in regular school.

Going vegan, I feel great!