Laura Dern Quotes

Children change you. They really do.

I have three sons, and I think we're both fierce protectors of our children.

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

I want a baby and I want a family, for sure.

Appallingly, I hadn't thought about it one jot. I never daydreamed as a little girl of getting married and having children. I was as surprised to discover I was getting married as I was to discover I was up the duff.

One has to do everything at the right time. That includes motherhood.

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

I think I'm playing grown up because I have kids now. But I don't feel grown up yet.

Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?

It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.

I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn't otherwise be here.

I feel things more deeply... anything to do with kids. It just makes a big difference in my life... Having a child is like taking the deepest core vulnerable aspect of myself, reaching in and taking it outside of my body.

I always wanted to be married for a little while before a baby. You know what? It does make me choose my wardrobe differently because if I wear something a little baggy, I'm like, "No, it looks like I'm having a baby!"

And...I think that's what life is all about, actually, about children and flowers.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

If you become a father, you're not doing things for yourself anymore. You're thinking about someone else. And that is not a burden.

I think that being a mom has made me a better person. I'm much more patient and much more chill than I was before.

Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good.

I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to be able to decide. I don't know if I could stand that kind of commitment, or if I am really honest, I don't think that I could handle being that vulnerable to someone else.

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.

I'm really, really worried about the Trump team, and I want people on the team who I think are adults who have judgment and won't do anything stupid.

I guess my whole life, as much as I might have wanted a child for the reason that everybody wants one, I always recognized that at no point until I was 50 was I old enough or up to the job. I thought, you know what, I not only really want a child, but at this point, finally in my life, I think I'm up to the job and I'm the type of person who could do the job well and I'm financially prepared to look after a child.

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

I'm not writing to make anyone's children feel safe.