My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.
Tom Hanks

My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.
Margot Kidder

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
Jim Carrey

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
Kary Mullis

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
Kin Hubbard

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
Alfred E. Smith

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
Orson Welles

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
Stephen Leacock

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.
Nigella Lawson

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.
April Winchell

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.
Marcelene Cox

Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.
Tony Visconti

Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.
James Cronin

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
Frances Wright

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
Phyllis McGinley

So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.
Bonnie Tyler

So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of "The Most Offensive Song Ever" with lyrics intact.
Trey Parker

So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.
Peter Jurasik

South Park started as a little video Christmas card.
Joel Hodgson

T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
Clement Clarke Moore