Anne-Marie Duff Quotes

'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

My entire life changed when I became a mother - my priorities, my understanding, appreciation of life, and my relationship with God.

Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.

I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.

Motherhood changed me completely.

I have changed so much, post-'Raaz,' as a person.

The Olympics were life-changing for me. I felt I went in as a girl and came out as a woman.

Before I had my babies, I would tend to be self-absorbed, and worry about little things, but now I am a changed person.

I think that at the time, when I was first pregnant, it was hard to make the transition from being totally self-involved to not being able to think about myself at all. At the end of the day, I think that's the best thing that someone can go through. I think it makes you a better person. It doesn't mean that people who don't go through that aren't good people. For me, it was a good thing.

That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.

When I had kids I sort of went into a hole for a few years and I think when I came out of that, I started to really become myself and know what works on me.

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

It wasn't until I went to college and met different people from different areas of life - and then went to San Francisco and met people who really knew who the hell they were - that I kind of caught up in a hurry.

I'm a work in progress.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

I don't think men figure out what they're really about until they're 25. That's when they start to feel like themselves.