Naomi Watts Quotes

I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.

You're sexy when you're young. You've got it going on, and then you have your kids, and you give your whole life to your kids, and then they're kind of gone, and like, what do you do? You've got to fight to stay inspired, and you've got to fight to learn new things and stay young in your heart.

Let me tell you something, planes and kids... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.

Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they're born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

I'm the father of two boys and two girls, so I'm more an emotional wreck than a mushball.

You can't separate the two, being a parent, being a cop.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

I love my kids, they are amazing children, but they drive me bananas sometimes. And sometimes, I want to sell them on eBay... but I'm not going to.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.

All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.

It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.

To have kids and not be there every night is tough.

Parenthood is a very, very intense experience.

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

We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home.

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.