And it's when I'm standing there this morning, in my PJs and a hijab, next to my mum and my dad, kneeling before God, that I feel a strange sense of calm. I feel like nothing can hurt me, and nothing else matters.
- Randa Abdel Fattah
Nobody who says as little as he does is as simple as you'd think. It takes a lot to not say a lot, because when you're not talking, you're thinking, and he thinks a lot. My mum and dad talked all the time. Talkers don't think much; their words drown out any possibility of hearing their subconscious asking, Why did you say that? What do you really think?
- Cecelia Ahern
In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.
- Gillian Anderson
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 always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.
- Marc Anthony
Why are they burying daddy? Mummy? Mummy! Make 'em stop! Daddy can't go to work like this!
- Hiromu Arakawa
My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.
- Gemma Arterton
The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and they went around the neighborhood saying, "We're pregnant." I want to go around the neighborhood saying, "We're depressed." If my mum can't get out of bed in the morning, all of us feel the same. Her silence has become ours, and it's eating us alive.
- Melina Marchetta
I'd read fantasy if they had simple names like Jane and Bob from Wagga," I say. "Why does it have to be Tehrana and Bihaad from the World of Sceehina?"
Jimmy looks at my mother and rolls his eyes. "No wonder they call her bimbo behind her back."
And my mum laughs.
And because of that, Mark Viduka, the soccer player, stops being my brothers hero, and Luca and Pinocchio run after Jimmy like he's their idol.
- Melina Marchetta
And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is. How I can dare to be happy is beyond me, and I hate my guts for it.
- Melina Marchetta
I can do oblivion, you know. I can do it better than him. I'd like to see how he likes it if I just disappear from his life without a word. It was okay for him to keep in contact with Georgie and my mum, but not once did he pick up the phone or write to me. Like I was fucking nothing to him. Like I'm nothing to no one.
- Melina Marchetta
So, like I asked, what's with the nightie?"
"It smells like what I always think mothers smell like," I tell him honestly, knowing I don't have to explain.
He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.
- Melina Marchetta
He nods. My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.
- Melina Marchetta
The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.
- Drew Barrymore
My mum always said there's a lot of presence in a doorway," he added, staring into one of the eyes.
A chill of air trickled down her spine, she could feel the eyes upon her, drawing her in, asking questions and tormenting her very being. "Really? How so?" asked Maggie, with interest.
Brick turned his head and presented a puzzled expression. "Well, cause that's where people come in
- Paul Baxter
We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.
- Victoria Beckham
Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish.
- Sophie Ellis Bextor
Because my mum and dad brought me up to believe that people are different but equal. And that I should treat everyone, no matter who, with the same respect I'd like to be shown.
- Malorie Blackman
I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, "You make your own luck."
- Orlando Bloom
My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.
- Danny Boyle
It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me.
- Susan Boyle
My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.
- Jo Brand
My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.
- Russell Brand
I remember when I got to 16, my mum was like, 'No, now you've got to go and get a proper job. We've indulged you long enough.' I don't think they ever thought I was going to be successful in entertainment at all.
- Kelly Brook
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
I told him to buy land, my mum says, they're not making it anymore.
- Chuck Palahniuk
People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career.
- Helena Bonham Carter
I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.
- Helena Bonham Carter
I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.
- Charlotte Church
Walter Plinge said: "You know she asked me a very silly question Mrs Ogg! It was a silly question any fool knows the answer!"
"Oh, yes," said Nanny. "About houses on fire, I expect..."
"Yes! What would I take out of our house if it was on fire!"
"I expect you were a good boy and said you'd take your mum," said Nanny.
"No! My mum would take herself!"
"What would you take out then, Walter?" Nanny said.
"The fire!
- Terry Pratchett
I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.
- Lily Collins
About two months after this photo was taken I was born and my mum died - clean swap. Caring about someone I never knew doesn't make sense, but that's how it is. This photo means a lot. There must be some invisible mother-daughter wiring that runs from her image in a straight line to my heart.
- Bill Condon
When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.
- Simon Cowell
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
- Benedict Cumberbatch
My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.
- Alan Cumming
I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.
- Lindsay Davenport
You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.
- Leonardo Dicaprio
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
Seven years is a long time, and he was there for me, when my mum died. He was very compassionate at that time. I couldn't have found anyone better in that situation.
- Mary Elizabeth Donaldson
I'm going because my life was crap until I met you. I'm going because I don't want to be here when you're not, still living with my mum and nothing being any different. I wouldn't even be thinking about going if it hadn't been for you.
- Jenny Downham
Thursday morning. I usually let my Mum wake me up but today I have set my alarm for seven. Even from under my duvet, I can hear it bleating on the other side of my room. I hid it inside my plastic crate for faulty joysticks so that I would have to get out of bed, walk across the room, yank it out of the box by its lead and, only then, jab the snooze button. This was a tactical manoeuvre by my previous self. He can be very cruel.
- Joe Dunthorne
Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.
- Christopher Eccleston
I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.
- Christopher Eccleston
I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.
- Jennifer Ellison
My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.
- Tracey Emin
I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to wear a GB kit as a junior. I've even kept it. It's in my mum's loft somewhere, probably gone mouldy by now.
- Jessica Ennis
When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.
- Enya
As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.'
- Rupert Everett
I do miss Glasgow but Malibu is home now. I love it here and when I do go back to Scotland it takes me a bit of time to acclimatise. I am a spoilt so-and-so. I live in the mountains of Malibu in the most gorgeous house and I phone my mum every day and tell her that I have got bad news - that it is only 70 degrees here.
- Tommy Flanagan
I trust my mum with anything. If I have a problem, my mum is always the first person I go to.
- Richard Fleeshman
My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.
- Vanessa Hudgens
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
Actually, Justina, I didn't just ring you to chat about what an undead murderer I was... right, degenerate whore as well. Did I ever tell you my mum was one? No? Oh Blimey, I come from a long line of whores, in fact..
- Jeaniene Frost
I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.
- Jenny Frost
My mum is totally crazy for fashion still.
- Stefano Gabbana
You know what my mum once said?' said Rosie... 'She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar every time they make love in their first year, and take a coin out for every time that they make love in the years that follow, the jar will never be emptied.'
And this means...?'
Well', she said. 'It's interesting, isn't it?
- Neil Gaiman
I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my Mum. I know I've got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with a hangove
- Noel Gallagher
I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.
- Steven Gerrard
I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.
- Ryan Giggs
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
I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'
- David Guetta
I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.
- Susan Hampshire
I'm very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I'm very much a mommy's boy.
- Tom Hardy
Trust your judgment, baby witch. No one else's. You've got good instincts for someone flakier than my mum's pie crust. (Leprechaun to Rachel)
- Kim Harrison
Uncle Vernon:What's that? If it's another form for me to sign, you've got another-
Harry:It's not. It's a letter from my godfather.
Uncle Vernon:Godfather? You haven't got a godfather!
Harry:Yes, I have. He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check I'm happy..
- J K Rowling
He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with news...check if I'm happy..
- J K Rowling
That's all right. Anyway, my mum always said things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end.
- J K Rowling
I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.
- Kate Moss
My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
- Damien Hirst
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
When I went back into the kitchen, I wanted to sit on my mum's lap. I know that sounds stupid and babyish , but I couldn't help it. On my sixteenth birthday, I didn't want to be sixteen, or fifteen or anyteen. I wanted to be three or four, and too young to make any kind of mess
- Nick Hornby
Someone like my mum would say, Oh, you're just a kid, you don't know what love is.But I didn't think of anything else apart from being with Alicia, and the only time I felt like I was where I wanted to be was when I was with her. I mean, that may as well be love, mightn't it?
- Nick Hornby
There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them.
- Julianne Hough
Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.
- Steve Irwin
My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.
- Jamelia
I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.
- Elton John
Under these circumstances, silence among such a large group of people is an uncomfortable thing to experience. Guilt spreads around even to those who have nothing to feel guilty about. Many held their breath. Or, as I heard later, many did what me and my mum did and closed their eyes. We closed our eyes in a bid to remove ourselves.
- Lloyd Jones
There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.
- Norah Jones
At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.
- Milla Jovovich
I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.
- Jay Kay
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 is about five foot with her hair done. Without it she's about four foot 10.
- Ryan Kwanten
On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad.
- Julian Lennon
And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?"
"I'm not a dwarf! I'm a girl. And actually I'm tallest in my class."
"You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?"
"Well my mum's name is Helen..."
"Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?
- C S Lewis
I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
- Jet Li
I had an action figure that did that," Graham nodded. "I tried to use it on my mum, once. Got me in no end of Barney.
- G Norman Lippert
My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!
- Lindsay Lohan
I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.
- Callan Mcauliffe
Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.
- Paul Mccartney
Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment.
- Stella Mccartney
I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we're leading these four children into unknown waters.
- Stella Mccartney
The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.
- Kylie Minogue
But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Australia on the plane and I thought it was my mum and it was Woody Allen just checking to see if I wanted to be in his movie.
- Radha Mitchell
My mum reads every script before I go for it.
- Chloe Moretz
She's always getting into trouble because she gets bored really really easily.
My mum says it's because Celia has an attention span the size of a sesame seed.
Celia's mum says it's because Celia's identity is unfurling itself slowly, like a tulip bud, and it's a breathtakingly beautiful thing to see.
- Jaclyn Moriarty
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
- Andrew Motion
Sometimes i still think about when we used to fight and I feel really bad because if I'd known what was going to happen to her, I would have tried to be nice to her every day. I say 'try' because it's quite hard to be nice to someone every day. Even my mum gets on my nerves sometimes but I'm always nice to her because I know she's still sad, and because I'm all she has left.
- Jojo Moyes
I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.
- Carey Mulligan
I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it.
- Paul Ogrady
I'd be the best mum ever. I would. I've got great training from my mum.
- Kelly Osbourne
I think my mum has the foulest mouth of anyone I've ever met.
- Kelly Osbourne
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
I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.
- Sally Pearson
The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me.
- Katie Price
My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
- Bar Refaeli
I never promise anything. I don't promise anything to my mum. I don't promise anything to the supporters.
- Cristiano Ronaldo
I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.
- Lee Ryan
My mum has told me that I have to work with Antonio Banderas just so that she can meet him and try and marry him.
- Kaya Scodelario
My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I'd love to do a Brazilian film. I've been brought up in the Brazilian culture. My mum brought me up on my own, I cook Brazilian food, I've never spoken a word of English to my mother.
- Kaya Scodelario
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
And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on.
- Lisa Snowdon
I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live.
- Gordon Strachan
I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.
- Aaron Taylorjohnson
There are different types of love, and my love for my child is like me and my mum. We've gone through a lot of rocky patches, but we never stop loving.
- Tracey Ullman
I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.
- Ville Valo
I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.
- Ville Valo
I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.
- Sid Vicious
I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and 'The Sound of Music,' and my mum's an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn't find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.
- Alicia Vikander
Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.
- Tim Vine
My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time.
- Carol Vorderman
The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He's now remarried so there's no chance of us getting back together.
- Carol Vorderman
I've never once heard my mum shout and she's 83 now. She's incredible. She's very, very happy, slightly eccentric but loves laughing, which I do too.
- Carol Vorderman
I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.
- Julie Walters
My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.
- Dominic West
Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.
- Lee Westwood
I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band.
- Ron Wood
My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.
- Ron Wood
- Randa Abdel Fattah
Nobody who says as little as he does is as simple as you'd think. It takes a lot to not say a lot, because when you're not talking, you're thinking, and he thinks a lot. My mum and dad talked all the time. Talkers don't think much; their words drown out any possibility of hearing their subconscious asking, Why did you say that? What do you really think?
- Cecelia Ahern
In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.
- Gillian Anderson
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 always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.
- Marc Anthony
Why are they burying daddy? Mummy? Mummy! Make 'em stop! Daddy can't go to work like this!
- Hiromu Arakawa
My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.
- Gemma Arterton
The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and they went around the neighborhood saying, "We're pregnant." I want to go around the neighborhood saying, "We're depressed." If my mum can't get out of bed in the morning, all of us feel the same. Her silence has become ours, and it's eating us alive.
- Melina Marchetta
I'd read fantasy if they had simple names like Jane and Bob from Wagga," I say. "Why does it have to be Tehrana and Bihaad from the World of Sceehina?"
Jimmy looks at my mother and rolls his eyes. "No wonder they call her bimbo behind her back."
And my mum laughs.
And because of that, Mark Viduka, the soccer player, stops being my brothers hero, and Luca and Pinocchio run after Jimmy like he's their idol.
- Melina Marchetta
And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is. How I can dare to be happy is beyond me, and I hate my guts for it.
- Melina Marchetta
I can do oblivion, you know. I can do it better than him. I'd like to see how he likes it if I just disappear from his life without a word. It was okay for him to keep in contact with Georgie and my mum, but not once did he pick up the phone or write to me. Like I was fucking nothing to him. Like I'm nothing to no one.
- Melina Marchetta
So, like I asked, what's with the nightie?"
"It smells like what I always think mothers smell like," I tell him honestly, knowing I don't have to explain.
He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.
- Melina Marchetta
He nods. My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.
- Melina Marchetta
The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.
- Drew Barrymore
My mum always said there's a lot of presence in a doorway," he added, staring into one of the eyes.
A chill of air trickled down her spine, she could feel the eyes upon her, drawing her in, asking questions and tormenting her very being. "Really? How so?" asked Maggie, with interest.
Brick turned his head and presented a puzzled expression. "Well, cause that's where people come in
- Paul Baxter
We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.
- Victoria Beckham
Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish.
- Sophie Ellis Bextor
Because my mum and dad brought me up to believe that people are different but equal. And that I should treat everyone, no matter who, with the same respect I'd like to be shown.
- Malorie Blackman
I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, "You make your own luck."
- Orlando Bloom
My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.
- Danny Boyle
It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me.
- Susan Boyle
My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.
- Jo Brand
My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.
- Russell Brand
I remember when I got to 16, my mum was like, 'No, now you've got to go and get a proper job. We've indulged you long enough.' I don't think they ever thought I was going to be successful in entertainment at all.
- Kelly Brook
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
I told him to buy land, my mum says, they're not making it anymore.
- Chuck Palahniuk
People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career.
- Helena Bonham Carter
I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.
- Helena Bonham Carter
I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.
- Charlotte Church
Walter Plinge said: "You know she asked me a very silly question Mrs Ogg! It was a silly question any fool knows the answer!"
"Oh, yes," said Nanny. "About houses on fire, I expect..."
"Yes! What would I take out of our house if it was on fire!"
"I expect you were a good boy and said you'd take your mum," said Nanny.
"No! My mum would take herself!"
"What would you take out then, Walter?" Nanny said.
"The fire!
- Terry Pratchett
I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.
- Lily Collins
About two months after this photo was taken I was born and my mum died - clean swap. Caring about someone I never knew doesn't make sense, but that's how it is. This photo means a lot. There must be some invisible mother-daughter wiring that runs from her image in a straight line to my heart.
- Bill Condon
When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.
- Simon Cowell
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
- Benedict Cumberbatch
My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.
- Alan Cumming
I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.
- Lindsay Davenport
You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.
- Leonardo Dicaprio
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
Seven years is a long time, and he was there for me, when my mum died. He was very compassionate at that time. I couldn't have found anyone better in that situation.
- Mary Elizabeth Donaldson
I'm going because my life was crap until I met you. I'm going because I don't want to be here when you're not, still living with my mum and nothing being any different. I wouldn't even be thinking about going if it hadn't been for you.
- Jenny Downham
Thursday morning. I usually let my Mum wake me up but today I have set my alarm for seven. Even from under my duvet, I can hear it bleating on the other side of my room. I hid it inside my plastic crate for faulty joysticks so that I would have to get out of bed, walk across the room, yank it out of the box by its lead and, only then, jab the snooze button. This was a tactical manoeuvre by my previous self. He can be very cruel.
- Joe Dunthorne
Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.
- Christopher Eccleston
I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.
- Christopher Eccleston
I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.
- Jennifer Ellison
My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.
- Tracey Emin
I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to wear a GB kit as a junior. I've even kept it. It's in my mum's loft somewhere, probably gone mouldy by now.
- Jessica Ennis
When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.
- Enya
As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.'
- Rupert Everett
I do miss Glasgow but Malibu is home now. I love it here and when I do go back to Scotland it takes me a bit of time to acclimatise. I am a spoilt so-and-so. I live in the mountains of Malibu in the most gorgeous house and I phone my mum every day and tell her that I have got bad news - that it is only 70 degrees here.
- Tommy Flanagan
I trust my mum with anything. If I have a problem, my mum is always the first person I go to.
- Richard Fleeshman
My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.
- Vanessa Hudgens
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
Actually, Justina, I didn't just ring you to chat about what an undead murderer I was... right, degenerate whore as well. Did I ever tell you my mum was one? No? Oh Blimey, I come from a long line of whores, in fact..
- Jeaniene Frost
I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.
- Jenny Frost
My mum is totally crazy for fashion still.
- Stefano Gabbana
You know what my mum once said?' said Rosie... 'She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar every time they make love in their first year, and take a coin out for every time that they make love in the years that follow, the jar will never be emptied.'
And this means...?'
Well', she said. 'It's interesting, isn't it?
- Neil Gaiman
I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my Mum. I know I've got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with a hangove
- Noel Gallagher
I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.
- Steven Gerrard
I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.
- Ryan Giggs
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
I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'
- David Guetta
I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.
- Susan Hampshire
I'm very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I'm very much a mommy's boy.
- Tom Hardy
Trust your judgment, baby witch. No one else's. You've got good instincts for someone flakier than my mum's pie crust. (Leprechaun to Rachel)
- Kim Harrison
Uncle Vernon:What's that? If it's another form for me to sign, you've got another-
Harry:It's not. It's a letter from my godfather.
Uncle Vernon:Godfather? You haven't got a godfather!
Harry:Yes, I have. He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check I'm happy..
- J K Rowling
He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with news...check if I'm happy..
- J K Rowling
That's all right. Anyway, my mum always said things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end.
- J K Rowling
I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.
- Kate Moss
My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
- Damien Hirst
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
When I went back into the kitchen, I wanted to sit on my mum's lap. I know that sounds stupid and babyish , but I couldn't help it. On my sixteenth birthday, I didn't want to be sixteen, or fifteen or anyteen. I wanted to be three or four, and too young to make any kind of mess
- Nick Hornby
Someone like my mum would say, Oh, you're just a kid, you don't know what love is.But I didn't think of anything else apart from being with Alicia, and the only time I felt like I was where I wanted to be was when I was with her. I mean, that may as well be love, mightn't it?
- Nick Hornby
There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them.
- Julianne Hough
Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.
- Steve Irwin
My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.
- Jamelia
I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.
- Elton John
Under these circumstances, silence among such a large group of people is an uncomfortable thing to experience. Guilt spreads around even to those who have nothing to feel guilty about. Many held their breath. Or, as I heard later, many did what me and my mum did and closed their eyes. We closed our eyes in a bid to remove ourselves.
- Lloyd Jones
There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.
- Norah Jones
At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.
- Milla Jovovich
I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.
- Jay Kay
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 is about five foot with her hair done. Without it she's about four foot 10.
- Ryan Kwanten
On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad.
- Julian Lennon
And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?"
"I'm not a dwarf! I'm a girl. And actually I'm tallest in my class."
"You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?"
"Well my mum's name is Helen..."
"Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?
- C S Lewis
I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
- Jet Li
I had an action figure that did that," Graham nodded. "I tried to use it on my mum, once. Got me in no end of Barney.
- G Norman Lippert
My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!
- Lindsay Lohan
I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.
- Callan Mcauliffe
Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.
- Paul Mccartney
Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment.
- Stella Mccartney
I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we're leading these four children into unknown waters.
- Stella Mccartney
The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.
- Kylie Minogue
But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Australia on the plane and I thought it was my mum and it was Woody Allen just checking to see if I wanted to be in his movie.
- Radha Mitchell
My mum reads every script before I go for it.
- Chloe Moretz
She's always getting into trouble because she gets bored really really easily.
My mum says it's because Celia has an attention span the size of a sesame seed.
Celia's mum says it's because Celia's identity is unfurling itself slowly, like a tulip bud, and it's a breathtakingly beautiful thing to see.
- Jaclyn Moriarty
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
- Andrew Motion
Sometimes i still think about when we used to fight and I feel really bad because if I'd known what was going to happen to her, I would have tried to be nice to her every day. I say 'try' because it's quite hard to be nice to someone every day. Even my mum gets on my nerves sometimes but I'm always nice to her because I know she's still sad, and because I'm all she has left.
- Jojo Moyes
I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.
- Carey Mulligan
I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it.
- Paul Ogrady
I'd be the best mum ever. I would. I've got great training from my mum.
- Kelly Osbourne
I think my mum has the foulest mouth of anyone I've ever met.
- Kelly Osbourne
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
I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.
- Sally Pearson
The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me.
- Katie Price
My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
- Bar Refaeli
I never promise anything. I don't promise anything to my mum. I don't promise anything to the supporters.
- Cristiano Ronaldo
I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.
- Lee Ryan
My mum has told me that I have to work with Antonio Banderas just so that she can meet him and try and marry him.
- Kaya Scodelario
My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I'd love to do a Brazilian film. I've been brought up in the Brazilian culture. My mum brought me up on my own, I cook Brazilian food, I've never spoken a word of English to my mother.
- Kaya Scodelario
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
And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on.
- Lisa Snowdon
I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live.
- Gordon Strachan
I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.
- Aaron Taylorjohnson
There are different types of love, and my love for my child is like me and my mum. We've gone through a lot of rocky patches, but we never stop loving.
- Tracey Ullman
I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.
- Ville Valo
I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.
- Ville Valo
I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.
- Sid Vicious
I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and 'The Sound of Music,' and my mum's an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn't find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.
- Alicia Vikander
Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.
- Tim Vine
My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time.
- Carol Vorderman
The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He's now remarried so there's no chance of us getting back together.
- Carol Vorderman
I've never once heard my mum shout and she's 83 now. She's incredible. She's very, very happy, slightly eccentric but loves laughing, which I do too.
- Carol Vorderman
I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.
- Julie Walters
My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.
- Dominic West
Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.
- Lee Westwood
I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band.
- Ron Wood
My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.
- Ron Wood
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