Barry Keoghan Quotes

I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave me up to two wonderful people, my foster parents.

My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

Obviously, I got very lucky that even though I lost my mother, I lost her later in life, but it's still had a profound effect on me.

When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.

I was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.

When our William was killed, there wasn't a child bereavement charity. I was extremely blessed with a very close family, wonderful friends, a supportive husband, and two further children.

I lost my mom when I was young.

Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.

In December 1988, my mother died of lung cancer. I died too. I couldn't function.

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

My natural mother passed away from cystic fibrosis when I was a toddler, so I feel a great deal of empathy for people who are struggling with disease.

It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.

I miss my mother very, very much.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

I lost my parents when I was fairly young.

'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.

I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.

Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn't have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasn't been herself at all.

I've played a worrying number of orphans, children who have been abandoned or had something terrible happen to them.

I lost my mom to breast cancer about three years ago, and it has changed me forever.

My dad had died when I was four, so after my mum passed away, it was her parents - my amazing Nanna and Grandad - who took me in.

I lost my mom to cancer when I was a kid.

Going away to prison was nothing, I'm just saying, compared to losing my mom.

I had a real bad attitude after my dad passed of liver cancer. I was 9, and we were really close.