Nicole Holofcener Quotes

I like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream.

I don't see how a woman in documentary photography could have children. I think it's a very difficult thing to do to raise a family, and I have enormous respect for people who do it. I'd hate to do something like that and not be good at it.

Yeah, I could go rock on the back porch and do crossword puzzles - but I've got six kids, ages 9 to 16, and someone in the family should work. That's me.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.

My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

I have been looking after the children. My wife has taken time off.

I think you can have your career and still bring to your family something very, very special. There are some people who are born mothers, who don't want to work and just want to stay at home, and that's fantastic, but for me it was something very difficult.

People with children can never be good revolutionaries.

My wife wants four kids, and obviously if we're having four kids, I need to make sure that the priority is family first.

As a parent, I often wonder what I should be encouraging my kids to do for a career.

When I'm on a movie, I'm unavailable every day for a year and a half. You can't do that with a little baby. Somebody might be able to do it, but not me.

It's the sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now to leave my children because I felt it wasn't only my choice.

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

I'd go back, yeah. I don't care, I got a kid, man - I'll sell tampons. I mean, there's no selling-out once you get a kid. I got a kid.

I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that if you opt for children - be you man or woman - you have to take care of them.

We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

I so rarely turned down a role, that I can't say I have any regrets in that regard. There were many roles that I would rather not have done, but having a home and family requires that we sometimes do things we would rather not.

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

I'm almost a full-time mom.

My priorities are my family and my job. I have little time for much else.