Gugu Mbatha-Raw Quotes

I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.

There are certain things I talk to my mom and certain things I speak to dad for. But I also know that it has never been that I can tell my mum something and my dad won't know. They are very dependent on each other even though they may not say it or realise it.

There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.

I love kids. I always have. I was an only child until I was 12, and then my sister arrived.

It's unconditional love with your kids.

Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.

My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.

I have a very close relationship with my mom, and I'm able to talk to her about anything.

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.

I love my son, but my daughter has calmed me down.

I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.

I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.

The relationship you have with your mother is like nothing else. They do kind of know everything about you, even though they don't confront it. That is often a dynamic from childhood onwards. As a teenager, you want to be independent and do slightly furtive things.

I think seeing the love between a mother and child is something we can all really relate to. You can remember it from your own childhood perspective.

If you have many children, the first one is always different because you can only have one child who is the first. They have different natures and talents for you to love.

I am an only child, so not only my father, even my mother is also very supportive of my career.

It must be weird having one child.

I like that I have kids still willing to hold my hand.

I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

I feel like if you are with someone through the process of pregnancy and delivery, if nothing else, there is such an incredible amount of respect that would lead into some sort of love in one way or another.

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate.

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.