Josh Hamilton Quotes

Parenting makes us better in so many regards.

When I had kids, I became a better actor. I just stole from them.

It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.

I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.

People forget that the more we know about the world - about people, cultures, and about life - the stronger we are as actors because the more we can bring to our characters.

I'm a better actor because I'm a mother, I think.

Studying acting has been personally enriching because it has taught me to take the time to imagine what someone else's life experience might be like. To look deeply at how our pasts and the circumstances of our early childhoods mold us as people.

I think there's different parenting styles.

I'm a mom... and I'm learning this being a parent, sometimes your child can be such a reflection of who you are. And I have to figure out when it is my ego that dictates how I parent and when it is what I think is best for my child.

It's hard, but what's the point of having children unless you're there to raise them, I reckon.

I think you have to experience life and then pull certain experiences into your act and your character's life, whoever you play, so you're full.

I think kids are in your temporary care, and that they probably arrive with pretty much the personalities they're going to have. I grew up in a perfectly traditional family and turned out how I did. I'm not sure there's much that the family can do except lots of love and lots of care and lots of chances for them to develop the best they can.

Bringing up children always has a bigger role for the mother.

It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Raising children has made me more patient and selfless.

I'm not good with children," the god confessed. "Or people. Well, any organic life forms, really.

I think whether you've got children or not you're just more aware of others as you get out of your 20s.

Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children's lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to beparents, we are forced to encounter ourselves; and if we are willing to look at what is happening between us and our children, we may learn how we came to be who we are.

In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.