Quotes by Coal Miners I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home and staring at the coal scuttle - I was never a great lover of watching myself act. Ross Kemp coal-miners great-love home I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit. Sam Rockwell coal-miners daughter mother See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner," "A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?" "Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen. Suzanne Collins coal-miners girl mother The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was a coal miner for nineteen years, and the expectations of making it out of my town were slim to none. Thomas Jones coal-miners virginia mother Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12. Tom Jones coal-miners tuberculosis thinking I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner. Tom Jones coal-miners class father «12