Sam Worthington Quotes

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

I shined shoes; I did windows.

I don't want to have anyone else to do my housework. I've always done it myself. I believe you should do it yourself. I feel very strongly about that.

I have a lot of hair, and it's quite heavy: Sometimes I'll braid it for a match so it's all together.

I am the oldest of three. I was in charge of making sure my brother and sister were OK and also entertained so they didn't bother my mother, who had a job at home.

In my neighborhood growing up, 8, 10,12 kids were the norm. Those stay-at-home moms would handle so much physically and emotionally. Even in my early teens, I could tell those ladies were something.

Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time.

It's unfair to the hard-core stay-at-home moms to pretend you're able to have an amazing body by chasing around your kids.

Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn't help.

I do the laundry, cook all the meals, take care of my kids and I love it.

Being a full-time mother is one of the biggest jobs in the world; it's like another career for me. I love every moment of it - even the challenge of making cupcakes.

I love braids and messy plaits.

My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college.

There are some parents who always have their daughter's hair whipped. Mine wasn't always like that, but I appreciate that both my parents were into me having natural hair, so they did find Anota Scott, who I was going to for my cornrows and wrapping last year and a couple years before that.

There was years when my father didn't even make a hundred grand - or barely made a hundred grand - and sure, we had a maid, but she only came twice a week. What do you think happened the other five days? You think those dishes washed themselves? You think those clothes got themselves in the hamper?

My eldest daughter's been to a few sets of mine and gets spoiled when she's doing her nails, her hair. Though more often than not, you bring them to set, and they realize the filming process is pretty boring.

When you're a full-time mum, you're constantly in that zone and doing breastfeeding and having a lot of boredom, too!

When I was young, they used to call me 'foreman,' not because I was in charge, but because I did the work of four men.

When I'm filming, I keep my hair in cornrows so that they can fit a wig on top of my hair.

It is not easy to stay home, look after the house and also take care of the child.

Mum was a teacher before I was born, but never worked after she had kids. She was too busy looking after us and making kedgeree.

A nanny is a woman who lives in an apartment, but the apartment is not her own. She raises children, teaches them how to walk, how to speak; she gives them food - but these children are not her children. So she is in a very ambiguous place.