Peter Kay Quotes

When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive to children that aren't my own.

You just become more mature as a human being, having a child. The stakes are a lot higher, things are different. It teaches you to be patient and it's changed me a lot.

Being a mother changes perspective. Things that were once really important, the sole focus of your life, aren't the same.

It's amazing, all of the ways that having kids has changed me. I'm a much less selfish person because of them, and compared to who I was before, my patience level seems infinite.

Fatherhood has changed me, I've become more patient.

I think parenthood does change your priorities quite drastically in an incredibly good way - most of the time.

Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being.

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

Being a mom has changed me forever.

Being a mom has affected me in the greatest way possible - and in a necessary way. Having my son has helped me to be grounded, and I feel like with a child you have to really think about things all the way through.

When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I'm responsible for this tiny person. It's so surreal.

Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.

A lot changed the moment I had kids; I had no idea of the perspective it would give me. It made making the right decisions a lot easier.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

I've got kids now; it changes you radically.

I'm not cut out for that life; for sharing my life. Whether it's getting married, or having kids. That too drastically changes your life. Everything important to you becomes less important, because the child gains utmost importance.

It's amazing how being a dad changes your outlook on life.

When you become a pa, you have different priorities now, and you're not living for yourself; you're living for someone else now.

Fatherhood has changed my whole life.

Having a family, taking care of your kids and people outside yourself, maybe it's motivated me more to give that extra something.

My mindset at this stage, especially after having a daughter... it's just changed my whole outlook.