I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I told my agents that I didn't want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, 'It's the coolest show. You have to go.' Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
My mom is still yelling at me because she needs more autographed pictures. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years! Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>