Actors in real life
Actors' quotes about their real life
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This section contains the best quotes about actors and directors' private life. The celebrities reveal their secrets and talk about things they care about. Before becoming famous, each celebrity was a son or a daughter, a brother or a sister, a husband or a wife, a father or a mother. The section is entirely dedicated to the actors' and directors' private life, including family quotes and themes like the importance education, roots and immigration, or the joy of adopting a child.
“I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.”
“Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.”
“I really would have liked to love, but I didn't trust myself to allow it.”
My dad is really old school: "Whatever you do, just be the best at it." He didn't really care if I was a plumber or a roofer. It didn't matter what I did. He said, "Go out and find out what you like to do, and be the best at it."
“My mother used to tell me 'No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later'.”
“I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.”
“I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.”
“I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.”
“I'm more mature than kids my age because I'm constantly surrounded by adults.”
“For the past 50 years or so I've been getting more and more worried about Christmas. It seems we're all so busy trying to beat the other fellow in making things go faster and look shinier and cost less that Christmas and I are sort of getting lost in the shuffle.”
“If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.”
“I do know it's important to keep the romantic spark alive in your marriage. But with four kids, sometimes it's enough just to keep yourself alive.”
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“For the sake of your marriage, get a king-size bed. And if you really want to stay married, get two.”
“It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.”
“I'm a risk-taker. I like to test myself.”
“My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.”
“I don't have any kids. Well, at least none I know about.”
“I have an anger in me that I carry from my childhood experiences - I expect a lot of myself and I'm not too kind to myself.”
“It's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.”
“I was called McG since the day I was born because we were broke and there were three Joes in the house.”
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