Dianne Wiest Quotes

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

My mom always worked, and I certainly don't want to look back and think, 'Well, I don't have kids, but I'm glad I did that sitcom.'

What I can control is me playing basketball and how I treat my family and how I raise my child in the time that I have to spend on this earth. You know what I mean? I can't control what happens with trades.

Sometimes, you have to stop your life or your career and say 'What is the best for my family, for me?'

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.

Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.

My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.

I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.

I've lived a fast-paced life, but I had the best childhood. I didn't miss out on anything by having my daughter at a young age.

I'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now.

I feel that I've worked with a lot of interesting people, and I have no regrets. I'm just curious about what I might have done if I'd had people in my life then who did explain what the publicity game was.

I don't think children have competed with my career, they have clarified it. My children ground me. They make me honest.

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mum and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently. 'Balance' is a really big word for me.

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

There's other things I'd like to do. I probably won't tour for a very, very long time. It's something that you feel inside and that's the way I've been looking at everything.

I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids.

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.'

Work used to be the No. 1 important thing to me. Everything revolved around it, and to have a new perspective and have something else, my family, not just being a mom but being a part of an incredible family of my own, it makes me have a different perspective on life that I think is richer.

Even though it was a start-up with fewer than 20 people, and I was pregnant with my first child, the best decision I've ever made was to join Google in 1999. Worst decision? Deciding to get a puppy and a bunny right when the baby came.

Education was a given, only because of the way I was raised. Truth be told, I thought, at 15 years old, I should go and get a record deal and drop out of school, and my parents would have had none of that. I'm grateful now that my parents were pushing me in that way, because I wasn't mature enough on so many levels to do that.