4 Quotes & Sayings By Natascha Mcelhone

Natascha McElhone was born in London to an English mother and German father. She is the youngest of five children. Her father was a journalist, her mother a schoolteacher. At university she studied English for three years, then switched to medicine Read more

Natascha also worked as a model for Jil Sander and Louis Vuitton, among others. She has acted in movies ranging from The Bourne Supremacy to the hit TV show The West Wing.

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I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom. Natascha McElhone
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I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us. Natascha McElhone
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Mum left school at 15, and after a few years of modelling and dating jazz musicians, was married by 21 to my father, Mike Taylor, a journalist on the 'Daily Mirror.' They had my brother and me pretty quickly and had split up by the time I was two. I don't really have any memories of them as a couple. Natascha McElhone