Emmanuelle Beart Quotes

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

I couldn't be where I am today if I had children. My focus would be on my children and home. And you can do it later in life.

I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that.

I gave up my childhood for a career.

When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.

Everyone wants to go to the party and the red carpet, but my life is 90% the work.

My professional life shouldn't be an influence on whether I spend time at home. My career is my whole life's blood. It's my calling.

It was an odd coincidence that my career took off the same decade as having babies. I often wished it had been different, that I had my big career bump in my thirties and my babies in my forties or vice versa.

My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.

My career is an open book, but my life is not.

Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.

I have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The role I will do today has to justify the time I take away from my kids and my husband. I love them, spend a lot of time with them and love doing things for them. So to go away for three to six months, I need something equally powerful.

I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.

My life is basically my work.

I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.

The assumption that people sometimes make is that I have made a cold, calculated decision to put my career ahead of having family, and that's not true.

I didn't have children because I was passionate about having my career.

A family is something that I definitely want, but I'm 26, so I have plenty of time, and I try not to kind of confuse the two because, if I'm lucky enough, I want to make having a baby a personal decision rather than a career-defined one.

I didn't want children until my late thirties because my career was taking off, and I was having such a good time in New Order. But when you have children, you have to make decisions; I always wanted to stay at home with my kids.

When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our baby.

we compromise our career goals to make room for partners and children who may not even exist yet

I wouldn't want to sacrifice the last years that I have of being youthful in this business to have kids.

I would shoot for long periods in Chennai, and now I wish I spent more time with my family. That is what matters the most.

I was at that point where my children needed more than going around the planet in the back of a bus. They needed stability, they needed to build their own lives and relationships, and I needed to put my life on hold. I made my choice - I chose my children.