Lesley Manville Quotes

I'm very lucky because I don't half get some juicy jobs. But I can't tell you the number I've turned down in the past 20 years because I wanted to be at home, looking after my son. There was never any question about that. Alfie and I are dead close. I can't bear it when he's away.

Everything I do, I do for my daughters.

My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.

I never wanted my kids to feel I was more interested in anything I was doing than I was in them.

At the end of the day, I'm Violet's mom, and I want the best for her.

Everything I do is for my children.

I had a mother who gave me everything.

If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they've got--and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage.

Nothing outside of my child is important.

For my daughter I would suffer through a thousand divorces, a million uncomfortable phone calls, a trillion emotionally fraught text messages.

My son is my routine and priority, period!

As any mother knows, we just want our babies to feel better quickly, and we all do whatever we have to do to help them - no matter how much it inconveniences us or hurts our backs!

My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.

I have said a lot that it's very important to me to make time for my child and make her the priority. I made sacrifices so that I'm around and not traveling for that.

I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life.

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

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.

I'm so obsessed and involved with my son.

I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.

My mom raised me on her own, so I decided to take her name 'cause she was my mom and my dad.

I'm doing everything in my power to be a great mother. I wish I could be with her throughout the day, because I'm always working, but I make sure that whether it's the morning or nighttime, I make it extra special.

I learned from my dad's mistakes. I think that's why I'm so into my son. I bring him lunch every day: McDonald's, Taco Bell, whatever junk food a kid likes, I will bring it for him. I've canceled gigs so I could be at moments for him. That wasn't a big thing for my dad.

I never spend more than a week away from the children.

I am a mother first. I will always be a mother, and I would die for my kids if need be.

I live for my son.