Robbie Coltrane Quotes

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

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.

Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.

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

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

My mother died, and I couldn't stand to look at her bedroom any more. I'd get sick. I've always been a momma's boy.

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

What shaped me the most would probably be when my dad passed away. For the rest of my life, I'll kind of feel like he's gonna come home.

My mom died when I was 8.

My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more than I realised.

I wish my father had lived longer. He died when I was 18.

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.

I try not to spend too much time with regret, although I wish I'd had more hang time with my dad.

I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

At some level it's still hard for me to admit that my father died. I can talk about it and around it, but those two words. 'He died.' What can that possibly mean? That I won't get to hear his voice again?

My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.

I think it's bad for fellas when they lose their mothers. Mine was such a character. Oh it was sad, really sad. And, with her gone, the family home was gone, so what was left of any roots I had were completely dug up.

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father.

I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose - you drop into a different kind of serious.

It's true you never know the full depth of a parent's touch in your life until they're gone. Even if you cared for them in their old age, there's never a way to prepare yourself for the death of a parent.