Emily Blunt and John Krasinski's Rare Quotes About Parenting

While Emily Blunt and John Krasinski are acclaimed actors and directors, they tout parenthood as their greatest achievement.

Blunt and Krasinski — who wed in 2010 — went on to welcome daughters Hazel and Violet in February 2014 and June 2016, respectively. The couple love doting on their little ones, Hazel and Violet are not as keen to understand their parents’ careers.

“They are usually disinterested in seeing me on screen, but they’re really into Jungle Cruise,” Blunt quipped during a July 2021 appearance on Live With Kelly and Ryan, referring to her Disney film with Dwayne Johnson. “They love the jaguar, they love DJ, they love the dynamic, they love the whole world. It makes me so happy!”

Years later, their girls had adapted Blunt’s posh phrasing after the family moved across the pond.

"They've actually been in a proper school with school uniforms,” the Wild Mountain Thyme actress said on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in December 2020. “Miraculously, they're sounding quite British, which I'm completely over the moon about.”

She added: “[Violet] sent me a video, well she didn't actually send it but someone sent it, of her singing 'Jingle Bells,' and she goes, 'Jingle ol' da waye!’ Almost like a Cockney. It was almost like Dick Van Dyke singing 'Jingle Bells.' The craziest accent ever — it was kind of brilliant.”

Scroll below for more of Blunt and Krasinski’s sweetest quotes about parenting:

During her first pregnancy, Blunt gushed to Vogue that motherhood was the “coolest thing” that she’s ever experienced.

During a The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon appearance in 2016, the actress admitted it was disappointing when Hazel adopted her father’s American accent. (Krasinski hails from Boston.)

“I’d had my first daughter, and when we went to go shoot [The Hollars when she was] I think she was 4 and a half or 5 months old, and I went into the movie in a completely different way,” Krasinski recalled to TODAY. “I think having kids totally changes your perception of family and where you’re from.”

He added: “I think you realize first and foremost how it's really hard to be a great parent and you’re just trying. There’s no perfection. There's no school. There's no defined way to go about it; you're just learning. And I think that there’s such a long period of time when you're a kid that you see your parents as superheroes; they can do no wrong. But you realize they figured everything out by trial and error too, and there's something very humbling about that. I really connected to my parents even more, thinking of them as young parents, as I am now.”

After the A Quiet Place director won a Critic’s Choice Award for helming the thriller, he gave his family a sweet shoutout. He gushed: “I got to make a movie about a love story, and a love letter to my kids and I got to do it with the love of my life by my side. So, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t get much better than that!”

Blunt revealed to Marie Claire what she plans to teach her daughters as they grow up. “I encourage empathy in my kids and embracing differences and not being scared of them, or teasing people for them, you know?” she said in 2020. “Making mistakes, or feeling like you have something that causes you to make mistakes, is a good thing. It’s how you learn, and it’s how you grow. When you go through something like that, you establish a real sense of kindness. And you’ve got to be kind to yourself and you’re going to be kind to other people.”

Hazel and Violet received a special mention in their dad’s Saturday Night Live monologue, as he recalled telling him about his special gig.

“I genuinely cannot tell you what a huge deal it is for me to be here right now! I have been watching this show since I was 8 years old. I was trying to explain that to my kids, what I was doing this week, and I told them, ‘You know how your favorite show is Paw Patrol? My favorite show is SNL,’” the Massachusetts native said during the variety series. “‘So for me, it’s like I’m on Paw Patrol.’ And they were like, ‘What? You’re on Paw Patrol?’ And I was like, ‘No, no, no.’”

“I don't want my kids to feel any more important or special or that there's a glare on them any more than other kids,” Blunt told the U.K.’s Sunday Times of her fame. “If they can remain oblivious for the longest time, I'd be thrilled. They don't even want to see what I do. They don't even like it when I put on makeup. They don't like any of it! They just want me to be their mommy."

“They loved [DC League of Super-Pets],” Krasinski told Jimmy Fallon during a July 2022 appearance of taking his daughters to see his animated project. “They were laughing very, very hard. I think up until now, they didn’t believe I was actually in the business because they’ve never seen anything I’ve done.”

The Jack Ryan actor quipped that Hazel and Violet finally realized that he wasn’t “an accountant.”

“I don't know if any parent thinks they're ever juggling it well,” Blunt told E! News of motherhood. "I've just surrendered to: 'This is our life.’ I guess that's all we've ever known and it's all my kids have ever known. … They’ve got that ownership of us as parents. It's not they're not like running to see me in a movie, which keeps you humble."

Blunt said in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar that she prioritizes making time for her children despite her busy schedule. "Because even though they’re hardy, and they’re used to this strange life, it’s still rough on them when I have to go away," the Oppenheimer star explained. "There are cornerstones of the girls’ day that I don’t want to compromise on – like, ‘Will you wake me up, take me to school, pick me up and put me to bed?’ And I just want to be able to say, ‘Yes, yes, yes.’ It’s such an exhale for me to be able to do that."

In an interview with Net-a-Porter, Blunt shared the one ritual with her kids she’s not willing to sacrifice for her work schedule: bedtime. 

“Once my children start to find me repellent, once Mommy doesn’t reign supreme, I will do it, but I feel bedtime is this essential anchor,” she explained. “The 10-minute chats where they tell you everything — you don’t want to miss them.”