Mum Quotes
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Mother Quotes
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Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I`d tell her I was going to school but I`d be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.
Ronaldo Lima
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My parents who worked in the business, felt lion-taming was preferable to acting. They said 93 per cent of all actors were out of work, and tried to talk me out of it. But I grew up mixing with Mum and Dad`s friends. Adult actors are really childish, and ...
Jack Davenport
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I don`t do a thing to keep fit, I just cannot make myself work out. My abs are just luck - my mum has good ones so it`s a family trait.
Keira Knightley
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If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler`s mum, guns and broccoli.
Dominic Monaghan
Source: imdb.com
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My career went into the hole after Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). People might have seen what they saw on screen and subconsciously, people in the business might have taken what they saw literally. I think people thought, `He got fat. He got weird...
Benicio Del Toro
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(On her conception) I was a bet. My mum was desperate for another child, and my dad told her that the only way they could afford to have one was if she sold a play. So Mum wrote When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream and Shout.
Keira Knightley
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(On her conception) I was a bet. My mum was desperate for another child, and my dad told her that the only way they could afford to have one was if she sold a play. So Mum wrote When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream and Shout.
Keira Knightley
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I do remember, at six, thinking I should be earning my own living. My mum says I was born 45.
Keira Knightley
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I feel like I can relate to her. I like to think I`m quite brave. I stand up for myself. And I don`t let other people tell me what to do. Well, unless it`s my mum. - Talking about Lyra, her character from The Golden Compass.
Dakota Richards
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I`ve got such a broad range of musical interests. I`ve been influenced, from my father`s music and my mum`s so that goes way back to like the `50s. Of course Elvis Presley because every piece of pop music has been influenced by him but then you look at th...
Oliver James
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Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated and it was just a nightmare. I was a rebellious sort of choirboy.
Jesse Spencer
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The first time I was nominated, I didn`t know anything about the Oscars. That was almost 15 years ago. I just did Oscar week and enjoyed it very much because I was with my mum. Even so, each time it`s happened I`ve come down with some ghastly infection. I...
Emma Thompson
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Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me.
Kate Winslet
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I was in this stadium with 200,000 people looking at my mum and dad. That was mind-bending. - on her parents` fame
Stella McCartney
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I`m dyslexic, and at six years old they realized I couldn`t read a word and had been fooling them. My mum said to me: `If you come to me with a book in your hand and a smile on your face every day through the summer holiday, I`ll get you an agent.`
Keira Knightley
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My mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I`d been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
Naomi Watts
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I`ve wanted to be an actress for as long as I can remember, and I can say I was almost born in the theatre. My mum went into labour while she was watching the Nut-Cracker Suite in New York - apparently I was kicking like mad
Sienna Miller
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On his 2002 Empire Award: "I think my mum will have [my award] in pride of place somewhere beside my grandmother on the mantelpiece."
Orlando Bloom
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My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time.
John Cleese
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I think women look better and better as they get older, but there is some pressure on them to look a certain way. I personally think we should grow old gracefully. Like, my mum has great hair and it`s beautiful. It looks natural.
Amanda Bynes
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I remember writing `I want to act` on my bed in lipstick. I think I told my mum I wanted to be an actress and she said I needed an agent to do that. I must have said: `Well, I`m going to get one` - and I think that`s why. She was devastated. She said: `Pl...
Jemima Rooper
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Cumberbatch - it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn`t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn`t keen on me keeping it.
Benedict Cumberbatch
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My own mum wouldn`t call me pretty.
Bob Hoskins
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On going to the 1996 Oscars: Emma Thompson said to me `Listen, it`s honestly just like going to see a fantastic show`, and actually it really is, because there are so many people to look at and all those fabulous frocks and it`s really fascinating. But mu...
Kate Winslet
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My mum was Labour-voting, but wanted us to know we were important. Basically, everyone`s equal, but you, my children, are a bit better.
Martin Freeman
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Your private life should be private. I reckon that`s a good thing that you talk about your work and you talk about what you`re doing, but without having to go into how your brother`s been and how your mum`s been because none of that`s really relevant.
Keisha Castle-Hughes
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[on her parents` feelings about her audition for the role of Luna in the Harry Potter films] "Well, my Mum didn`t want me to go. She thought I didn`t have a hope. And then I told my Dad and he thought I should go because he knew I really wanted it, so he ...
Evanna Lynch
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I`m from Melbourne - it`s a city of about 3 million - but when you`re growing up in a place like that and you think it`s quite a big city, and then you travel around and you go, "Actually . . . no." So when I go back now, Melbourne feels like a country to...
Jesse Spencer
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Me? An angel! Just ask my mum about that!
Charlotte Church
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The problem for me was that by being in the film the magic was broken. I loved the first Star Wars film and my mum was really into it too, that`s why I took the part. But the Force wasn`t there when we were filming it, and they didn`t have real light sabr...
Keira Knightley
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