Quotes About Experience

My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.

I am very blessed to have this experience of being a parent, but do not negate me from this industry because I am a parent.

Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that there's a limit to how much they can shield children from.

Being a parent can be overwhelming at times, but it's something we're figuring out as we go.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.

For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.

You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.

I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.

I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.

Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.

Any scene I've ever played where I've thought people who watch it had experienced something like that - for example, people who've had to deal with losing a parent - I want to do it as respectfully as possible for those people.

I have been listening to people's advice. Being a parent, you need all the advice you can get.

People think the advantage of a parent in the business is that they'll open doors for you. But the true advantage for me is having someone who knows exactly what you're going through.

All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.

Shared parental leave is good for dads. Looking after their newborn on their own is a unique learning experience.

When I was seven, I was allowed to be an extra in 'Parenthood,' which was amazing. But then I kind of got addicted to it, and my parents didn't want me to want to act. They felt that would be putting your kid in an adult world.

Parenting three children at the same time has helped me grow as a filmmaker. It taught me to be more empathetic and understand what people want from me.

I have become more and more afraid about marriage and parenting. I think it's because I am getting older. Of course, there will be a lot to learn, and I also know that the experience will help in my acting.

I think the main parenting or education you do for your children is by way of being, and not by way of having guidelines or some agenda. I think that life itself is constantly bringing learning opportunities.

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

Everything that happens to me in a day enhances my parenting.

I ask only child-free pals for parenting advice because they're the only ones sane and well-rested enough to have any real insight.