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"The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so."

"Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children."

"Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track."

"The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film."

"There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me."

"Good mothers know that their relationship with each of their children is like a movable feast, constantly changing and evolving."

"We children learned responsibility automatically."

"I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children."
Explore more quotes by Meg Tilly

"I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time."

"I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object."

"I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath."

"There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you."

"I know that in order to be considered successful, you're supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise."

"I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need."

"It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years."

"That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life."

"Look, I know he's been married three times before. I accept it, but I don't want it driving up the driveway."
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