Mum Quotes

I feel like I'm back in business now, and I'm managing pretty well as a single mum. I've proved to myself I can do it. You come out the other end and think, 'Wow, I'm pretty good at this!'

My own mum cared about Hollywood, and I didn't. I wanted to act, and I loved the creativity of it, but I didn't care for the lifestyle.

I can't wait to be a mum for a bit. I'm always a mum, of course, but I want to be domesticated and be in my house and do the school runs and all that.

Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.

I feel like a semi-single mum.

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.

My parents brought me up on all different styles of music, like my Mum would listen to Motown R&B and my Dad was quite 80's driven, so I was always surrounded by music growing up.

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.

I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.

I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand.

My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.

Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three years old. I don't remember doing that, and I think it was more that I was very energetic.

To be honest, I was Mum's boy. Always was, always will be.

I always dedicate my goals to my mum. I lost her a couple of years ago. She was my biggest supporter and is always with me.

I went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, 'Mum, that's it - I need to go where there are some boys.'

Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.

I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

I still think of my mum as being kind of a dork - a cooler one, but still a dork.

My mum is actually really wholesome.

Modeling is always something I've really admired because I've seen my mum and sister do it.

I remember my mum saying to me, 'You can give up the violin - when you've done Grade 8.' Which is the highest grade, and the most unfair target ever. So I did all the grades, just to annoy her.

If I honour my needs first, I will be the best wife, the best mum, the best sister, the best friend. I have to come first, because then everyone benefits.

I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.

I think my feet are my sexiest body part. People I find really sexy include Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and my mum.

Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my clothes.

My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We're both creative, gregarious, and energetic.

I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.

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

My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.

I really, really love being a mum and I absolutely love being a singer so I couldn't be happier.

I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.

I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.

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.'

I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really.

Being a mum changed me for the better.

I love being a mum but I do love to work too.

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.

There's nothing nicer than coming back to your village, where people like my mum's friends take the mick out of me. I prefer that to the craziness of Hollywood.

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.

To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.

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.

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.

It's not easy for you, Dad You seek your own space You slope off to watch telly But still see (Mom's Mum's Mam's) face

My mum told me always to wear heels. If I'm not wearing heels, she says, 'What? You're in flats?' So whenever I see her, I make sure I have heels with me.

Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.

When you watch your mum and dad sing and they're happy and it brings them joy, it is then a natural choice to go where the joy is. Music was always that place in our family.

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.

Me mum used to always have the radio on - even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames that reason for me not doing that well at school - constant noise, really.