Quotes About Parenting

I tell my daughter Nyssa, you should respect my work and I will also respect yours when you grow up, "Work is worship" is what I have told her.

I was born. It was easy. My mother did all the hard work.

Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can.

I work out every day. It's part of my life. That's one of the benefits of having kids in school full-time.

My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.

I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm. And when I started having kids, that doesn't work with kids. Kids don't understand sarcasm, and they certainly don't understand my humor.

It's really hard to balance work and being a mother.

The most satisfying thing in my life and my career is to work with my children.

I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.

I know that in order to be considered successful, youre supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

You can't force your child to go to bed. Well, you can, but it doesn't work.

I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.

Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.

I only work every five years. It's exhausting. I've got a family, and I want to be a really good parent, as well as a hopefully good filmmaker.

My biggest vulnerability now is my son, Hudson. I am often plagued with fear: Is he ok? Is he safe? I'm in the process of trying to work through this fear. It's a hard one.

My kids have got to work themselves around my life, not the other way. That's how kids become brats, if you're there staring at them all the time going, 'Are you alright?'

It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.

I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.

My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run.

It's a big deal to bring your family on the road, you know? I'd love to do it sometime, but you have to work out schools and all that.

Our aspirations are really for women to be in half the leadership roles and men to be doing half the work of parenting.

I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.

I never thought that having a kid would be the thing that got you to work.