Mark Strong Quotes

I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

Being a mother is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me in my life.

Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in children until my late 30s, but I'm so happy I didn't go through life without that experience.

And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.

Motherhood is the greatest thing I've ever done in my life.

Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life.

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

I feel, you know, empowered because I gave life. I have a son now. I feel like I'm stronger.

Having kids has been a turning point in my life because when I was still single, all I wanted was to impress beautiful girls.

Becoming a mother has been the best experience of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

My entire life changed when I became a mother - my priorities, my understanding, appreciation of life, and my relationship with God.

When my daughter was born, I said: 'I feel like I know what I've been waiting my whole life to be.'

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

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.

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.

Parenthood is so wild in its ability to put a mirror directly in your face and force you to look at yourself long and hard. What a challenge this is, but also what an exhilarating gift.

I am making an effort to truly live. I don't mean to imply by that that I haven't been alive before but, with my son being here and such a powerful force in my life, he's given me a freedom to be more. I think that sometimes we can get stuck, and just the fact that he's here says so much to me about my own existence. I didn't think I'd be able to have children, and this level of blessing is something I can't even put my finger on.

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

I don't know what my daughter will become.

Being a mum is the best thing that has ever been given to me in my life.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.

There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do.

Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.