All Quotes

Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Johnson

Mum and dad thought I was going to say I was pregnant. I said oh no, no, I've just been nominated for a Golden Globe. They were like, oh that's lovely, love.
‐‐ Melissa George

Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
‐‐ Ian McShane

Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

Mum and dad would drive me to the ACT Academy of Sport gym at 5 A.M., sit in the car and read a book, and then drive me to school. I appreciated it when I was younger, but I didn't really understand how much they were putting into it. Now I look at budgets of $70,000 to compete, and I think, 'Wow, they've put so much into this.'
‐‐ Caroline Buchanan

Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.'
‐‐ Jasmine Guinness

Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
‐‐ Orla Brady

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

Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch

Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.
‐‐ Paloma Faith

Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.
‐‐ Bruno Tonioli

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

Mum had regular mental tests with her specialist, but because of her academic background, she became brilliant at manipulating them.
‐‐ Kevin Whately

Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have her passion, but it is not for politics. I am much more interested in psychology. It's more my job and my natural inclination.
‐‐ Joan Cusack

Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
‐‐ Lykke Li

Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
‐‐ Katarina Johnson-Thompson

Mum left school at 15, and after a few years of modelling and dating jazz musicians, was married by 21 to my father, Mike Taylor, a journalist on the 'Daily Mirror.' They had my brother and me pretty quickly and had split up by the time I was two. I don't really have any memories of them as a couple.
‐‐ Natascha McElhone

Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.
‐‐ Adele

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

Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
‐‐ Gail Porter

Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

Mum's the word.
‐‐ George Colman

Mum says that, since I was a tiny baby, I've had the most strong-willed and stubborn personality known to man. Although that was a real pain for her, she admired my resolve.
‐‐ Bat for Lashes

Mum told me stories about her time in the Women's Royal Navy, and about her dad, who had died before I was born - he'd been sent to Australia as a child, then joined the Australian Army in the First World War and fought at Gallipoli.
‐‐ Tony Bradman

Mum tries to make every race that she can.
‐‐ Adam Peaty

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.
‐‐ Ruby Wax

Mum was a big style icon for me: her natural sexiness and natural confidence.
‐‐ Stella McCartney

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that.
‐‐ Jane Gardam

Mum was always hard-working. She came over from Spain and bought her own council house.
‐‐ Anton du Beke

Mum was an absolutely determined woman. She was determined I would have a good education, and they went without all sorts of things to ensure it.
‐‐ Joan Kirner

Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just as I was becoming a man, aged 17, and we were just starting to speak as adults. She was snatched away, and it felt cruel. She made me laugh.
‐‐ Robert Webb

Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.
‐‐ Tony Scott

Mum was very cool. Even though she came from a pretty affluent family, she was cool. She was really good, a very normal person.
‐‐ James McCartney

Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.
‐‐ Hayley Atwell

Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked.
‐‐ Dannii Minogue

Mum worked as a secretary for Orson Welles for what sounded like a very miserable year. Her brother was the actor Jeremy Brett, who became famous for playing Sherlock Holmes. He was an absolutely lovely man. Very exciting and glamorous, he'd always make me feel amazing and full of confidence, like I'd picked the right thing to do in life.
‐‐ Martin Clunes

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.
‐‐ Lily James

Mumbai Indians will strive to build on our proud legacy of giving youngsters a platform to showcase their talent and realise their true potential.
‐‐ Nita Ambani

Mumbai is home, so there's no comparison. But then again, New York's a lot like Mumbai, which is why I choose to live there. It's fast, crowded (in a good way), the people are friendly and it's full of color and race, like Mumbai. Unfortunately, the traffic's also just as bad.
‐‐ Lavrenti Lopes

Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
‐‐ Madhuri Dixit

Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
‐‐ Vikas Swarup

Mumbai's infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don't think you can live anywhere else.
‐‐ Yash Chopra

Mumford and Sons and Adele are both incredible artists and are great for popular music. There's a lot of club music with heavy beats, so to have that Mumford record and hear banjos being used is so cool.
‐‐ Dave Haywood

Mumford & Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding

Mummy always wanted the five children, and she knew she couldn't look after them all because she was this absolutely glorious woman who loved going to parties and going to the races, and she just didn't have time.
‐‐ Celia Imrie

Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.
‐‐ Princess Eugenie of York

Mummy weighed sweets and nuts so that everyone would get exactly the same amount. During the year, everything is measured roughly, but at Christmas, it has to be absolutely fair. That's why it's such a strenuous time.
‐‐ Tove Jansson

Mums ask me how to get their husbands off the couch as well as asking me to marry them. But kids ask me to get their mums and dads to play with them more as well.
‐‐ Magnus Scheving

Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
‐‐ Gautam Adani