Dad Quote by David Essex

My parents liked to go dancing, and they encouraged all of us to bring our friends home. My brother had a skiffle group, and…

— Diana Quick

My father was sick when I was little, and we had a woman, a nanny-type, who was from Ireland. Her daughter was in Irish…

— Annie Wersching

My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the circus, so…

— Neon Hitch

My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house…

— Len Cariou

My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and I met…

— Kim Cattrall

My mother was Welsh and I loved going to Wales every summer, where Uncle Les had a farm. My mother had seven brothers and…

— Keith Allen

Mum was a brilliant classical pianist. She was Canadian and studied music at McGill University. She took me to ballet when I was a…

— Caroline Quentin

There was always music in our house and my mum used to play the piano in a pub, so we were a fairly musical…

— David Essex

I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and…

— Vinnie Jones

I danced from the age of three, so I was always going to do something performance-related. I got into the Television Workshop drama group…

— Vicky McClure

My parents were in Vaudeville, in musical. And I would tour with them and had a couple of wonderfully lucky breaks in England.

— Julie Andrews

My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time…

— Ellen Pompeo