Kelly Macdonald Quotes

Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.

Nobody's gonna be a perfect parent, you know? We're all doing the best we can.

I was not an ideal parent, and there were things that I did right and things I did wrong.

My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.

I'm terrified for what is in store for me as a parent!

Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

Parenthood is a very, very intense experience.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.