Ardal O'Hanlon Quotes

Our life did not seem unusual to me at all. Anything that happened that was special, like visits from dignitaries, was always explained as part of Dad's work.

I've often thought having a politician for a parent must be like having a constantly embarrassing uncle.

My father was a coach, so there was a lot of moving around, not having a base.

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.

I was born in 1957 as the second son of the late Sat Paul and Lalita Mittal. My father was a politician and, at one point of time, an MP. A gap of two years separates me from both my elder brother Rakesh and younger sibling Rajan.

My children haven't even seen most of my movies.

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.

I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brother, David, and an older sister, Betty. My father Fred worked in the mills as a textile weaving supervisor, and my mother, Mary, was a housewife.

As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted in the evenings by the arrival of my father who preferred to live in a state of emergency.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

I would go to sleep with headphones on. My mom and pop - they would have music loud enough to shake the walls.

I grew up in a lot of different homes when I was younger: my parents rented trailers and small, boxy houses set high on cement block pillars.

I was quite young when my dad went into politics but, as it went on, I became self-conscious about it.

As one of seven children, our family life was full of energy and fun - we all knew how to laugh and work hard.

I didn't have a blueprint from my childhood that I could call on, which is an enormous deficit when you're trying to put together a family life. I didn't see a family life where men were thriving inside of it. You know, my dad tended to blame the family for his inability to achieve what he wanted to achieve, you know? So, unfortunately, I was coming from that particular frame of mind.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

Hillary Clinton's been around for 30 years. Why do these stories need to be told? It isn't all of this widely known?

The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.

bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time.

The children of childish parents age quickly.

Hillary Clinton's 506-page memoir has come out. So much of her personality shines through, that in the end, you, too, will want to sleep with an intern.

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.