Martin Scorsese Quotes

It's much better being an older father. You don't have to go prove to the world and to yourself that you're who you want to be, for better or worse.

If you get a child when you're 50, you'll understand what children are.

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.

And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done.

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.

My first child is going to be the oldest sibling to the next kid, and that may change with each and every year. I'm looking forward to how one baby influences the other, and to my family as a whole, to every single chapter.

You know when you have a child and then as you get older, your parents start becoming more like your friends and then telling you things they wouldn't have told you when you were 14 or 15, answering questions about the past or whatever.

I'm fortunate to have a baby girl who's super into everything that I say and do and really cooperative and just fun to be around. I couldn't imagine having a rebellious kid like me.

There's no substitute for the experience of childbearing or child rearing.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

The children of childish parents age quickly.

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

Age for me is just a number.

I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.

Children are very addicting. Once they start growing up, you miss when they were little.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

I'm a really fun aunt, so I hope I'm going to be a fun mom! I like to have fun and be silly and not take myself too seriously with the kids, so I hope that will translate when I actually have my own.

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 knew that I always wanted a family, but I can honestly say that it's nothing like I imagined it would be.