Anita Dobson Quotes

I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we're with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

I made the choice not to have children, so I can spend my days just writing; there are no kids demanding my time.

I highly recommend getting your career established first and then having children.

I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented. I didn't care about having a family or making a home. I didn't think about kids. It's not that I didn't want those things; I just didn't think about them.

The reason I haven't had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break.

I have to put my career first.

I won't apologize for choosing my career over kids.

My career is more important than girls.

If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic.

By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.

I didn't wake up one day and think, 'I'm not going to have children.' My mother was a housewife and brought up three children, so I just thought it would happen.

I'm still very much about being an actor. That's why I'm not married with kids.

The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

There are women for whom family is a priority, and they do it. It just wasn't as much a priority for me.

When you have kids, it limits you. That was a choice I made.

I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.

I wasn't mentally prepared to take care of them, I was focused on my career. And then when I got to be in my 40s and I thought about having kids, I wasn't able to have kids naturally. I don't regret it.

I always wanted to have a really successful career, but I always wanted to be a mom, too.

Once we decided not to get pregnant, I snapped back into work mode, and now I have just been really enjoying my career.

I have chosen not to have children.

Not having children isn't something I regret. I acknowledge that some things have been easier for me than they would have been for others.

I'm very career-driven.