Mum Quotes - Page 10

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

  Sally Phillips

  Hard Work, Parent, Yorkshire

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• I got knockback after knockback at auditions. Just before ‘Mulholland Dr.’ my agent told me I was so intense I was freaking people out. She told me I was a brilliant actor but the feedback was that I made people feel uncomfortable because I was so nervous and intense. I just sat there and blubbed. My mum was staying in LA at the time and I went to her and said: ‘I just can’t do this. I’m not cut out for it.’ She just said: ‘Don’t believe a word people say about you. Forget them.’

  Naomi Watts

  Believe, Cutting, People

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• I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Children, Dad, Only Child

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Nightmare, Rebellious, Choir

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's like coming back to the womb. I'm coming back to my mum and it's wonderful to see her. It's the best space in the world. If it wasn't for this place I don't know what I'd have done with my life.

  Pete Postlethwaite

  Space, Done, World

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• 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

  Pride, Funeral, Healthy

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• 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

  Sleep, Wings, Years

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• I'm really happy. Really! I think people honestly just want to see me as a mum and married and barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. And I just want to say, 'Everybody, relax! It's going to happen.'

  Jennifer Aniston

  Thinking, People, Kitchen

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• Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was eight that I wanted to be an actor.

  Dianna Agron

  Growing Up, Eight, Mixtures

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• 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

  Thinking, Earning, Six

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• Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me.

  Kate Winslet

  Growing Up, Dad, Anxiety

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum I know I am a great mother.

  Kate Winslet

  Mother, Baby, Morning

  "Perfecting the illusion" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2004.

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• Mum’s a musician. She plays piano and has a beautiful voice, so she understands the creative need. Mum lights up when she sees me. Her cheeks go pink – she’s all over me, pulling my hair, pinching my cheeks.

  Alex O'Loughlin

  Beautiful, Play, Voice

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• If I hadn't gone to dancing school, I would have married and had children like my mum and had a normal life.

  Jean Simmons

  Children, School, Dancing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.

  Jai Courtney

  Teacher, Dad, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  People, Different, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part?

  Dannii Minogue

  Thinking, Piano, Acting

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• I've wanted to be an actress for as long as I can remember, and I can say I was almost born in the theatre. My mum went into labour while she was watching The Nutcracker Suite in New York - apparently I was kicking like mad.

  Sienna Miller

  New York, Nuts, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like bringing the girls on set, but if I can't do that then the next day I feel I have to be uber-mum to make up for it. Then I'm exhausted and feel like I'm running in fumes.

  Marcia Cross

  Girl, Running, Uber

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• I try to balance it out on the whole. Being a mum is always the priority. Next, it's taking care of yourself. Right now, I get to only work two days a week - it's a dream. I can't imagine how hard it is for mothers who work 40 hours a week.

  Marcia Cross

  Mother, Dream, Two

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

  Lily James

  Giving, Tables, Speech

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.

  Bar Refaeli

  Thinking, Icons

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• 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

  Dream, Baby, Fun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don’t want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.

  Andy Murray

  Car, Singing, Would Be

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm just like any other regular mum; cooking, cleaning, wiping butts, picking up after kids, being a wife and helping the kids with their homework. Mind you, I'm terrible at maths. I can't even do my six-year-old's maths homework with her.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Kids, Math, Years

  "Rihanna, David Cameron, Chloe Green: stop pretending you're one of us" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2011.

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