I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.
Interpretation
The quote reflects nostalgia for a carefree childhood and expresses concern about raising children more sheltered than oneself.
Olivia Colman reminisces about her own childhood, which was filled with freedom and exploration, allowing her to roam freely until she felt hungry or it became dark. She expresses a sense of guilt for not being able to provide her own children with the same level of unrestrained freedom, highlighting the contrast between childhood experiences and modern parenting responsibilities.
In practice
A parent might use this quote to reflect on their own upbringing during a family gathering.
If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
When you've got children, it's easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earliest and whose turn it is to put them to bed. But I think the important thing is to appreciate and love each other and to show that appreciation.
My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.
The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.
The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.
My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen.
I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
She yearned to see her mother again, and Robb and Bran and Rickon… but it was Jon Snow she thought of most. She wished somehow they could come to the Wall before Winterfell, so Jon might muss up her hair and call her “little sister.” She’d tell him, “I missed you,” and he’d say it too at the very same moment, the way they always used to say things together. She would have liked that. She would have liked that better than anything.
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