All Quotes

My mum is very driven and has always kept me busy... She used to say to me, 'Nobody likes a teenager. So use your teenage years to work. Then enjoy your life when you're slightly older.'
‐‐ Ella Eyre

My mum is very political - left wing - and my dad was in the advertising business. They were both from the East Coast: Boston and New York City, respectively.
‐‐ Joan Cusack

My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together.
‐‐ Estelle

My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures in my life, really. I had my godfather, but he's more like a grandfather, so I was quite sheltered. I've never tried to find my father.
‐‐ Catherine Tate

My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.
‐‐ Donnie Yen

My mum lives near Holkham Bay in Norfolk, and with my dad by the coast in Suffolk, I spend quite a bit of time by the sea.
‐‐ Miranda Raison

My mum loved Joan Armatrading and used to play her records all the time and even took me to see her a couple of times when I was really quite young. I didn't really like her music back then because my mum was always playing it, but I've grown to appreciate it more.
‐‐ Katy B

My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home.
‐‐ Amanda Holden

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.
‐‐ Naveen Andrews

My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
‐‐ Hannah Ware

My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.
‐‐ Ashley Jensen

My mum Mary was always a bright, confident and fiercely independent lady.
‐‐ Kevin Whately

My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid - and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.
‐‐ Cameron Russell

My mum passing away wasn't funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

My mum put herself in £50,000 of debt to service my sporting career. She did everything for me to pursue my dream.
‐‐ Bradley Wiggins

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.
‐‐ Jake Gyllenhaal

My mum reads every script before I go for it.
‐‐ Chloe Grace Moretz

My mum's a bouncy, energetic, driven, crazy woman, and my dad's very relaxed, doesn't say much. I have the best of both worlds in my personality.
‐‐ Ella Eyre

My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother.
‐‐ Chloe Sevigny

My mum's always had big aspirations because I'm an academic. I always got good grades at school. GCSEs were just a breeze for me.
‐‐ Stormzy

My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.
‐‐ Paloma Faith

My mum's amazing - every time I achieve something in my career, she buys me a diamond earring.
‐‐ Katie McGrath

My mum's American. She's from Detroit.
‐‐ Rebecca Hall

My mum's family are from Blaenau Ffestiniog, the slate town. My grandfather was Elis Humphreys Roberts, so that's quite Welsh isn't it?
‐‐ Simon Fowler

My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
‐‐ Dan Auerbach

My mum's from Broome, so I'm a saltwater person - Aboriginal people are either freshwater, saltwater or desert mob. So I always feel much more comfortable in close proximity to the beach, even if I'm not necessarily in the water.
‐‐ Shari Sebbens

My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.
‐‐ Sally Phillips

My mum's maiden name was Dalglish, so I have Scottish blood in me.
‐‐ Rose Leslie

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.
‐‐ Dominic West

My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
‐‐ Taylor Momsen

My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.
‐‐ Natalie Imbruglia

My mum said she remembers me asking her if she'd take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons.
‐‐ Joanne Froggatt

My mum said to me once years ago, which really spurred me on, 'You're the funniest person I know'. I loved that.
‐‐ Miranda Hart

My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!
‐‐ Lindsay Lohan

My mum says part of the reason we moved house, it was a rough area at the time, was down to that - they wanted to help me.
‐‐ Liam Smith

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.
‐‐ Keira Knightley

My mum, she has a very specific way of mixing bourgeois and hippie. She doesn't wear a lot of make-up, but she always has to wear glasses, and she has this huge collection of glasses. And no rules.
‐‐ Mariacarla Boscono

My mum still says the biggest mistake I ever made was not being Benedict Lloyd-Hughes. She's very upset. But the only one who calls me Benedict in real life is my granny.
‐‐ Ben Lloyd-Hughes

My mum taught me a lot about fashion in terms of knowing what looks good on you and developing my own sense of style. Even when we were shooting the Sunglass Hut campaign, we went through racks of clothing together, and ultimately I decided on a short, more fitted peplum dress, while Mum opted for a sexy blazer and black leggings.
‐‐ Georgia May Jagger

My mum taught me always to see the funny side of things.
‐‐ Michelle Dockery

My mum taught me that bodies are bodies, and they come in all shapes and sizes - we should be free about that. My legs are a bit dangly, and my knees point inwards. Everyone has insecurities, but I try not to focus on them. It's important to be confident with what you've got.
‐‐ Eliza Doolittle

My mum taught me that redheads shouldn't wear pink, red or orange, but if you choose the right shade, such as a bright orange or a cherry red, it can look fabulous.
‐‐ Jane Asher

My mum taught me to always make sure you protect your skin with SPF. I always make sure I put my St. Tropez SPF on my face every morning, no matter the weather, before I go out of the house.
‐‐ Abbey Clancy

My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.
‐‐ Jo Brand

My mum thinks I'm amazing at everything. That unconditional love is just the most precious thing you can have.
‐‐ Lily James

My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension.
‐‐ Sanjeev Bhaskar

My mum told me, 'At that moment when you know you can't do both, the marriage and the kids, choose the marriage because you're going to be spending your whole lives together, so you have to put a lot of work and attention into the relationship.'
‐‐ Bryce Dallas Howard

My mum told me once I was a Hindu.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Johnson

My mum told me that grown-ups don't like teenagers, which is the last thing you want to hear when you are one yourself!
‐‐ Ella Eyre