Katie Holmes Quotes

When I became a mother, my life completely changed.

I don't think anything changes after marriage. Things change in a big way after becoming a mother.

Being a mother impacts every aspect of your life. It's a rite of passage which gives you an entirely different outlook on things.

I think when you have children, it just changes your worldview.

Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.

I like being a mother.

I definitely want to have kids. I've grown up around lots of people who were having kids when I knew them, because a lot of them were a lot older than me. And I saw the wonderful change in them.

When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.

What having a child - and especially a daughter - has done is lifted more of the veil for me: allowed me to see things on another level compared to how I used to see them.

I'm happy that I took time off to become a mom and raise my daughter properly and build a bond between the two of us.

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that's changed my entire perspective.

It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.

Raising children changes everything. It's a complete cliché to say that, but it's really true.

Motherhood puts everything into perspective, changes the way you look at life, and your perspective of what's actually important.

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

I hope, what I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

I'm obsessed with being a mom.

I've always wanted to have kids. I do think I would be a great mom.

Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.

The only thing that I can do is know that I have great confidence in raising children and being a great mother.

There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.