Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chloe Grace Moretz

My mum reads every script before I go for it.

Luke Mitchell

I try to stay away from processed foods. I eat lean meats and get as many veggies as I can on my plate, so when mum calls me on a Sunday, I can tell her I'm eating enough veggies! I love pasta, but I don't eat carbs a whole lot, and I love fruit.

Leander Paes

I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters.

Cesc Fabregas

My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well.

Elizabeth Hurley

I feel like a semi-single mum.

Kenneth Cranham

Cinema dominated the Fife coalfield towns. We lived in Lochgelly, but my mum was caught up in Hollywood. She was in love with the style and glamour. Sometimes she would come with me to the cinema in the afternoons, and she would say things like, 'I wouldn't mind a peck with Gregory.'

Kristin Gore

I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.

Jane Goodall

I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting into tears. It wasn't what I had imagined at all.

Kate Winslet

Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.

Liam Payne

The feather was a thing, when I was a kid, we used to find feathers around the house, and whenever we found them, my mum used to say it was my nan leaving them around for us to find, so that was quite sweet.

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

Joan Cusack

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.

Jennifer Ellison

I want to be a young mum and if I didn't have to work I'd have them tomorrow. I'd like three!

Lysette Anthony

I was sent to boarding school at the age of ten. I think Mummy was trying to protect me in her own way, trying to spare me living through the day-to-day reality of her illness.

Jane Asher

I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.

Jasmine Guinness

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

Benedict Cumberbatch

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.

Liam Gallagher

Nicole is going to be a great mum, the best mum in the world ... we are really thrilled.

Isla Fisher

On Nicole Kidman: She's a mum in her thirties with slag's hair. Look at all that frizzy s**t! She thinks she's a girl.

Margaret Thatcher

On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.

Trinny Woodall

When I was 18, my mum gave me all the clothes she'd had made at the famous haute couture fashion label, House of Worth, in Paris. Of course, I eventually trashed them all.

Sharon Stone

To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go.

Abby Wambach

I would love to be a mum if I'm blessed to have children. My wife and I have those plans.

Tahyna Tozzi

I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!

Tove Jansson

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.

Bruce Dickinson

I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

Dominic West

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

Dominic Monaghan

If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.

Dionne Bromfield

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

Laura Fraser

I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.

Laura Fraser

Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

Laura Haddock

I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.

Rory Bremner

When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.