Sissy Spacek Quotes

I used to sleep, eat, breathe volleyball. Now I have that with my kids.

I used to go around the country performing. I was in my 20s; I had no fear. But then I had a baby, and all of sudden, your life, your world changes; you change.

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.

Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. It's so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such an amazing way. Even silly things, like the fact that all of my pictures on my cell phone used to be of me at photo shoots - conceited, I know! - but now every single picture on my phone is of Mason.

I got pregnant five or six months after I retired, and then it was off to the races! It was a complete change of gears, and I was refocusing my life on my family.

It is a revolutionary experience. That's the best way I can describe it. It transforms you completely, in a second. Nature is very wise and gives you nine months to prepare, but in that moment-when you see that face, you are transformed forever.

Having the baby changed my life a lot. I don't want to go on the road.

What I didn't realize is how completely consumed I would be by my sons. I didn't know that the rest of my life would become so little a priority.

I'd always wanted to be a mom. Actually, being a mom was always my top priority. It was like, 'I'm going to be a star and I'm going to get done with that and then I'm going to go be a mom.'

Fatherhood has changed my whole life.

Motherhood is the most beautiful thing that can happen to a woman.

I think that having a baby is going to change my mind in so many ways. I have no idea how, but I'm looking forward to finding out.

It's not sinking in, as I still believe I am a kid! And now I am going to have a kid. I'm slowly digesting it.

If I knew the joy a child brings, I'd have become a mom earlier.

I really love my hometown. I carry that with me.

People change naturally when they have children.

I really do believe that the experience of having a child is going to actually make me a much better cinematographer.

I took 18 months away to have my son, Joseph, and it was the biggest break I'd ever had in my working life of nearly 20 years.

My whole family were from the East End, but they moved away when I was a child. They still cannot get their heads around the fact that I ran back to London as soon as I could, when I was 21.

I decided to have a life: to become - pardon the expression - a soccer mom.

I lived in Washington longer than I have lived anywhere else, so it's considered home, even though I moved back to California.

Seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how her face becomes less the whole story.

Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.

I got married and had a baby. Created a human.

To give life another being, what a gift! When he finally was placed into my arms, I looked into his precious eyes and felt an overwhelming, unconditial love... I never felt so complete and empowered in my life.