Cherie Blair Quotes

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.

I mean, there's a little bit that gets out, but for the most part, the thing that makes us work, and makes our family successful, and our life successful, is when we walk home and we walk into our doors of our house, all that other stuff is left outside. It's not a factor.

I don't think I will ever cross-contaminate my private life and my family life with my public and professional worlds.

Family life is an encroachment on private life.

My only real contact with what my father did was that he could get 16-millimeter prints, so every weekend we would show two or three movies at home. But our house wasn't frequented by stars. My father's personal life was his personal life, and it was separate from his professional life.

I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.

My children are unaffected by me being an actress because that's the way I like to keep it. I love the fact that they are so innocent about my star status. Sometimes, they come running to me and say, 'Mom, you are on TV.'

Sometimes I wish I didn't have somebody in my family who's in the business.

I try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family.

My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.

Enough is enough. Six years you serve the countries. You been working hard. You sacrifice your time even your life. And, even your family life. So it's, it's time for me to go back as a private citizen. And contribute to the Thai society outside political arena.

The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public.

Your private life should be private. I reckon that's a good thing that you talk about your work and you talk about what you're doing, but without having to go into how your brother's been and how your mum's been because none of that's really relevant.

I have what you might call the South Pole and the North Pole. I have my team and my work, which I do on one side, and I have my family and my home on the other side. Both have nothing really to do with each other.

Of course I have a personal life.

I never really felt free to talk a lot about my family life because I don't want to sacrifice anybody else's privacy. If you look through the archives, you will see, for example, no pictures of my children. That is not because I don't love them. I think I've been a really good dad; at least, I try to be.

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

In public, as well as private life, the only way to prevent being ridiculed or censured, is to avoid all ridiculous or wicked measures, and to pursue such only as are virtuous and worthy. If any man thinks he has been ridiculed, upon any of our public theatres, let him examine his actions he will find the cause, let him alter his conduct he will find a remedy

I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.

I don't like to mix my personal and professional life. Both are different, and I don't mix it.

I married a politician. But I thought it would be tough for my children to have two parents as politicians.

Salman doesn't even know half the time what I'm working on. Sometimes, he only gets to know about a film of mine when the release date is close. We don't sit down and discuss our professional lives with each other.

I always think that friends and family are off-bounds. I went into politics; they didn't.

The truth is I am not a very hands-on political wife; I don't get involved in day-to-day Downing Street life. They don't need me interfering, but in the evening, we will talk about each other's day. I try to stay out of the Westminster village. There are times when I will be surprised and curious about what's been announced.