Hallie Ephron Quotes

One thing I always want to clear up was the notion that I 'took time off to have a baby.' A lot people leapt to that conclusion because becoming a parent happened to coincide with film roles tapering off.

At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.

I want to be a mom. It's something that when I do have kids, I think I will retire from making music for a while.

I took 18 months away to have my son, Joseph, and it was the biggest break I'd ever had in my working life of nearly 20 years.

I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who had somehow figured out how to cross that threshold.

Now that the baby is coming, I will do a lot more balancing. I'm going to be a real mommy.

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

I was burned out, and my wife and I were having our first kid, so I wanted to take some time off. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back.

There are plenty of models who have children.

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.

I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.

I took a long time off to have my baby and spend time with my family.

I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.

It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.

I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, 'What am I going to do?' My husband's view of it was, 'Stay home... We'll have more children; you'll love this.' And I was very restless about it.

When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.

Prior to having my first child, I had a huge ambition to go into movies and TV.

I definitely don't want to have kids. I don't think I'd be a great mother. I don't want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don't have the time to raise a child.

I'd always wanted to be a mom. Actually, being a mom was always my top priority. It was like, 'I'm going to be a star and I'm going to get done with that and then I'm going to go be a mom.'

I was effectively unemployed after my son was born. I resigned from Bristol because I wasn't happy with the way my career was going then discovered I was pregnant when I was out of a job, but I was freelancing.

I got pregnant five or six months after I retired, and then it was off to the races! It was a complete change of gears, and I was refocusing my life on my family.

I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'

In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.

I've always wanted to have kids. I do think I would be a great mom.

Having twin girls is a life changer - that's for sure. But I like getting up and changing diapers. It's the things you do.