Megan Mullally Quotes

My first husband and I never came close to having kids.

My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.

It's not so much that I ever declared: 'I will never have children.' I just never found the right man to settle down with, so it didn't happen.

I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.' These days I would say, 'Well, why not, Tom?'

I think it's nice to have children. I didn't have many, and while I don't sit around regretting it, I maybe would have liked a couple more. But it wasn't meant to be, and I didn't want it badly enough.

I hadn't wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.

I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

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 was happy to carry on without children because I was completely immersed in my work and my career. I only heard the clock ticking in my late 30s, and when my mother Marion died the year I turned 40 it hit me with such a force that we ended up having IVF, which turned out to be unsuccessful.

Just when my biological clock started ticking, I found out it was going to be virtually impossible. And it was very hard.

After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.

I think there's a certain time in your life, your late 20s, early 30s, where suddenly lots of your friends have children, and it becomes an issue, an issue for your relationships, an issue in regards to your career. People start asking you about it. It suddenly seems to become all-encompassing. That's something I don't think we can get away from.

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

I became so focused on this desire to have a child that it really took over over my life, not in a positive way. It definitely impacted on my work, life, and work opportunities: I couldn't travel at particular times. I turned down a lot of opportunities, to be honest.

For lots of reasons, including working crazy hours and having a job that required significant travel, I did not start trying to have a baby until I was in my late 30s. My experience is hardly unique. I am one of countless women who almost waited too long without realizing it.

Michael was divorced, lonely, and wanted children. I was the one who said to him, 'I will have your babies.'

I guess that feeling of wanting to settle down and have children will follow when you find the right one.

Even when I was a kid, I was never interested in any of that marriage or baby stuff.

As an adopted kid, it means a lot when I hear women say, 'I don't want kids.' I have a lot of respect for them.

I've had other friends who had such a burning desire to have children: they have this biological ticking clock. I don't know what happened to mine. Nobody ever wound it up.

I never had kids, but I married once.

Trust me, I would love to have a wife and kids. I would very much enjoy that. But I also know that you have to be in the right place to do that.

We didn't plan one of my kids; they just kind of happened. So I've just kind of taken each one as a blessing sent to me by God.

I hope to have a house filled with animals more than I ever hope to have a child of my own.