All Quotes

My mum told me that the best thing you could give a woman was attention.
‐‐ Chris Evans

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
‐‐ Vanessa Paradis

My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised. She brought me home, and I wouldn't stop dancing.
‐‐ Emma Rigby

My mum used Avon Skin So Soft oil when I was younger. She would have a bath, and then the smell used to fill the whole house.
‐‐ Abbey Clancy

My mum used to always dress me and my sister in matching Laura Ashley dresses. And I'd be like, 'Mum, I just wanna wear my Doc Martens!'
‐‐ Agyness Deyn

My mum used to ride, and when she was mucking out, I always wanted to sit on a horse. And if she took me off, I'd scream my head off.
‐‐ Charlotte Dujardin

My mum used to tell me to never boil my cabbages twice, and I think it's artistically valid. While I do find myself on similar themes in my books, I try not to repeat myself, and that's something which is all too easy to do in series books.
‐‐ Geraldine McCaughrean

My mum used to think it was the pill that made you gay. There was too much estrogen in the water, and people started taking the pill in the '60s, and it made everybody gay.
‐‐ Russell Tovey

My mum used to wear the guys' Chesty Bonds tanks, and I used to end up wearing them after she'd finish with them. She's a painter, and they would be covered in paint splatters. She would wear them and wear them until they were super-soft, and then I'd get them. But I was just a kid, so they were like a dress on me.
‐‐ Ruby Rose

My mum used to work for the Chanel store in Paris, so for me, I've always been very familiar with the brand because of her. I remember when I was very, very, little, our flat had Chanel shoe boxes, makeup, and some jackets.
‐‐ Astrid Berges-Frisbey

My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop; she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's 'Set Adrift on Memory Bliss.'
‐‐ King Krule

My mum wanted me to go to university.
‐‐ Florence Welch

My mum wants me to get married - and have children, of course. She's met Gaga; we've been dating a while. We're in a committed relationship, and I'm really happy in my relationship. I'm a very lucky guy. As far as having more of a domestic life and settling down into my relationship, we have to see what happens.
‐‐ Taylor Kinney

My mum wants the best for me. And I like having my mum around me.
‐‐ Dionne Bromfield

My mum was a big fan of E.L.O. and Elvis Costello. She used to play that, consistently, all the time when we were kids. And my dad, he would claim to be a singer... You know, he loves singing, and he used to sing a lot when he was a kid and at parties and stuff like that. So I come from a very party-musical family.
‐‐ James Vincent McMorrow

My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my mum's work, was evenly split between American, Canadian, Australian and British authors.
‐‐ Eleanor Catton

My mum was a dancer. She would tour the world with a group, and she had me in a dance class when I was still in a nappy. They told her to come back when I could walk.
‐‐ Katarina Johnson-Thompson

My mum was a dancer when she was a kid. Then my parents met and eventually had an art gallery; my dad taught himself how to frame pictures, and then he was a curator at an art gallery in the city I'm from. I'm an only child.
‐‐ Ari Millen

My mum was a librarian, and my dad worked in Greenland.
‐‐ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

My mum was a librarian, and she brought home a lot of interesting books, and we just read and read. I suppose I didn't really think I could be a writer myself until I was working in editing in my 20s and discovered that actually, the books that came in were not very much like published books.
‐‐ Margo Lanagan

My mum was a music teacher. I've got three sisters, and we all played instruments when we were kids.
‐‐ Tom Ellis

My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.
‐‐ Olivia Colman

My mum was a quintessential businesswoman. She taught me problem-solving. She can solve any problem.
‐‐ Obiageli Ezekwesili

My mum was a single mum on the dole.
‐‐ Jake Bugg

My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to watch. I remember she said to me: 'Believe in yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.' I'm sure a lot of my success is due to her words of advice.
‐‐ Bonnie Tyler

My mum was born and raised in Ghana and has a lot of Ghanaian values and traditions and morals. All that rubbed off on me, and that's why I have a lot of love and good energy in me - that universal energy is a Ghanaian thing.
‐‐ Stormzy

My mum was critical in getting me to recognise very early on that although what I was doing was pretty serious, quite selfish, and probably to most people pretty obsessive, there actually was more to life than running quickly twice round a track.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe

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

My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose cycling to lose weight. I was only eight at the time, so I just followed what my mum did.
‐‐ Laura Trott

My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever music I wanted to, and that made me not rebel. I have never touched a drug in my life.
‐‐ Kelly Brook

My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.
‐‐ John Grisham

My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
‐‐ Rachel Tucker

My mum was one of those people who really wasn't allowed to be an artist, because she worked in a factory and she came from the war and all that stuff. She really has an artist's soul.
‐‐ David LaChapelle

My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.
‐‐ Ben Barnes

My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding

My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer.
‐‐ Domenico Dolce

My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14.
‐‐ James Blunt

My mum will always come and see my shows if she can, and if she can't, she'll text or email just before wishing me a great show and telling me how much she loves me. She still gives tonnes of positive reinforcement and love. It's really remarkable what that does for a child, and it's really remarkable what that does for me as an adult.
‐‐ Rain Phoenix

My mum will never let me be anything but grounded.
‐‐ Liam Smith

My mum will not speak above a low whisper in public because she doesn't want to draw attention to herself.
‐‐ Richard C. Armitage

My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.
‐‐ Patsy Kensit

My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.
‐‐ Tracey Ullman

My mum wouldn't do a film for money. She does it as a passion. That's why she's involved in things that are so brilliant. She really cares about what she does.
‐‐ Alfie Allen

My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
‐‐ Kate Thompson

My mum wouldn't let me go outside. Coming back from school, the gang men sometimes would say things, but I would walk by, never answer, and my mum would go tell them leave me alone.
‐‐ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.
‐‐ Donatella Versace

My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that.
‐‐ Nick Cave

My muse is the digital world.
‐‐ Nicola Formichetti

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.
‐‐ Gary Wright