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And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.
Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.
I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
One of our daughters is now a physician; another is a vice president of a major entertainment company; and the third is a clinical therapist. They place no limits on their ambitions, but for them, those ambitions also have had to fit within the context of having children.
Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword.
I agree with my mother that having children removes a layer of skin that you never grow back.
Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.
One thing about having children is that even as it complicates many aspects of your life, it simplifies others.
I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.
Marriage does figure in my life, as I do want to have children. But I could also consider having children without getting married. The primary thing is having a good father, a partner who could be there with me through that journey.
Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!
Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It's not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much.
Half the bloody world is going through a divorce; more than that are having children. All of us have parents who are dying or have died. It's just the life cycle.
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
Having children with someone is the real bond.
I'm a night person, but because of being in the film business and having children, my schedule has shifted, and I'm always terrified that I'm going to oversleep.
The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess.
I think having children is the most amazing thing.
And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?
I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.
I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.
Having children really changes your priorities.
Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me.
Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be 'not personally.'
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.
Our life is all about the choices we make, and when I was looking for a mate for life, I really was looking for someone who was a family man, somebody who would embrace my girls as much as they were going to embrace me. I guess I just wasn't finished having children yet.
There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
Having children changes your outlook 100 percent of your life.
That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.
Having children has been one of the biggest things that has happened to me in my life.
I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me.
I had a nutty career. I was living in New York. Then I got to an age where my friends and sister were having children, and I started to think I needed to orient myself towards a world where it could happen.