Quotes About Parenthood

Everyone says, 'You give birth, you go home, and you have this amazing baby and it's just beautiful'. And I walked in and I just started sobbing.

My son, Jett, is two, and when I was pregnant my nose got bigger, so I got a new one. Everything was bigger for a while after having Jet, but I knew I needed to be able to walk up my stairs without being winded. It took me two years to lose 60 lbs - lots of walking, bike-riding, kick-boxing and performing.

The best part of my life is having my kids.

I'm happy that I have a beautiful, wonderful, amazing child who's made me a better person.

I got to play with my dad. I got to go to work with him. That's the biggest thing that ever happened to me other than the days my kids were born. That's bigger than any record I'll ever set.

My biological mother had me at 16, and it was just too young.

I can't give birth to my own child; we know that. But it's still embarrassing to me, and that's just how I feel. It's a sensitive subject.

When you become a mum it's amazing, it blows your mind.

For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.

I feel it in my bones that if I had a kid, I would not either continue to write or have written the book I have done. So it's just me and the dog. I've always gotten along better with animals than I have with children, anyway.

I didn't know love until I had my daughter. I didn't know its bounds.

I enjoy the school run and being a dad. Boxing will always be with me. I like that.

It's two different brains: the mom brain that's, like, selfless and ego-free, and the on-stage 'Look at me. Like, listen to my song. Hope you like it.' There, it is all ego.

The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.

If I knew the joy a child brings, I'd have become a mom earlier.

Marriage can feel like putting a burden on each other and sometimes kids go with that, too.

I have two sons. Good sons. They're both businessmen.

Early on in my career, when I had basically been a sitcom actor for all of these years, and I made my first movies, and they were comedies, and they were successes, it was very important for me to stretch, and 'Parenthood' was one of those films. Even though it was a comedy, there was a great deal of authentic drama in the piece as well.

I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born.

Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for.

All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.

Becoming a father increases your capacity for love and your level of patience. It opens up another door in a person - a door which you may not even have known was there. That's what I feel with my son. There's suddenly another level of love that expands. My son is my greatest joy, out of everything in my life.

How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?

And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.