Paul O'Grady Quotes

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

When any character gets killed, there's always a sadness about that, because they're part of the family in a way.

Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

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

I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.

My mom died when I was 8.

I do not think direct experience is always necessary to act, but I believe that sometimes you have to have had the real experience to act certain roles. One of those was losing your family member. I was not being able to imagine how sad that could be.

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.

Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!

I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot.

The loss of my brother was a huge moment, a life-changer for me.

Going back to 2012, it was a bad year for me. I lost my dad as well, so burying him a week before I went to jail, just having all of that emotion, it just hit me hard.

I lost my parents, which is the toughest thing to overcome.

A loss of a great friend is traumatic and emotionally tough.

Over the decades people from all walks of life have told me, 'When your father died, so did my hope.'

I don't think any mother who has lost a child is ever the same.

That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.