Sue Perkins Quotes

I'll never forget the time my mother showed up with her best friend and two daughters, and all four of us dressed up in matching clothes, shoes and hats to go pick up my brother from school. I thought it was a fun thing to do, but we stepped outside my brother's school and he was mortified!

As the oldest I was a daddy's girl and loved him with all my heart. My daddy had holes in his shoes so that he could pay for my photography classes, you know what I mean.

I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.

I'm completely in love with my children, and I participate in their lives on every level.

I think it's the human condition to be frequently embarrassed by your parents.

I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the Guardian hating me.

Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they do their homework, holding them while they weep their tragic tears. But I'm not in love with any of them. I am in love with my husband.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.

My mother doesn't really embarrass me. Even when I was young. She understands my career.

I have a very close relationship with my parents.

The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.

My mom was really cool.

I'm really close to my parents.

It's a weird thing to have your dad or your parent be on the stage with a million people saying their name, and you're like, 'No, that's just dad.'

I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for me.

Writing about your family is the hardest thing, unless you had the perfect happy family life, which very few of us have had.

Nobody at fifteen wants anybody to see how goofy their parents are.

I'm adopted by my uncle and aunt, who I look to as my parents and people who really did everything they could to put me on the right path. I'm really grateful to them.

I'm my dad's biggest fan and, yes, sometimes his worst critic.

There's absolutely no part of what I do that my dad doesn't have the utmost pride in. It doesn't matter what the job is - he's... supportive. Same with my mother.