Emily Blunt and John Krasinski’s Rare Quotes About Parenting, Raising Their 2 Daughters

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:

April 2014

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

October 2016

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.)

December 2016

“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.”

January 2019

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!”

February 2020

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.”

February 2021

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.’”

May 2021

“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."

July 2021

While Hazel and Violet are “usually disinterested” in their parents’ movies, Blunt’s Jungle Cruise captured their attention. “It makes me so happy,” she told Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest in July 2021.

July 2022

“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.”

November 2022

“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."

December 2022

Krasinski revealed during an appearance on The Late Show With Stephan Colbert that his two girls, Hazel and Violet, who were 8 and 6 at the time, “just started watching The Office” and had only seen the pilot.
After screening the 2005 episode, the director explained he got two very different reactions from his daughters.
"My oldest, turns out she's a screen-talker-atter, so she's talking to the screen and when Steve [Carell, who played boss Michael Scott] fired Jenna [Fischer, who played Jim's onscreen love interest, Pam Beesly], she goes, 'What are you doing? What are you doing?'” the Massachusetts native said. “And then she goes, 'You're a horrible person.' And I go, 'You should meet Steve [Carell].'"
Violet, however, wasn’t convinced that her dad was actually playing Jim. "She goes, 'You look very different.' I was like, 'OK, I'll try not to take that as a hurtful thing, but sure,'" Krasinski said with a laugh. "She goes, 'You look very different.' And I said, 'No, that's me, I'm just playing a character.' She goes, 'That's not you.' She watched two more episodes being like, 'That's not you. The guy looks a lot like you though.'"
The Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness actor later noted that his stint on The Office hasn’t scored him as many cool points with his kids as his wife’s beloved Disney role. "Emily had a head start by being in Mary Poppins. I think my kids thought she had married me out of charity," he joked. "They're like, 'You're so nice to marry an accountant. That's so nice of you.' Because they don't know what I do."