Elliot Cowan Quotes

I didn't make a decision not to be married and not to be a mother - life just turned out like that because my involvement in acting was so total.

I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we're with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives.

I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented. I didn't care about having a family or making a home. I didn't think about kids. It's not that I didn't want those things; I just didn't think about them.

I didn't want to get married, and I didn't want kids - I knew I wanted to act.

Sometimes I think I missed out on things like travelling. I'd have been terrified of missing an audition. I didn't start a family because that's not something I take lightly. Acting meant so much to me.

The reason I haven't had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break.

I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.

I didn't have children because I was passionate about having my career.

I didn't get round to having children until I was 35, and then I wasn't around very much.

There is a right time for everything. There was a time when I wanted to settle down and have a family. I wanted to give time to my kids. I had worked for nearly 19 years when I got married.

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.

Having it all means different things to different people. I think it's an individual choice. Nothing is perfect. Everyone makes sacrifices. For me, it's worked out well. I have children. I have a very interesting career. But it's not for everybody.

It's not a bad idea to be single, so I can concentrate on my job.

I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

Sure, I want to be the best actor in the world. But my life is my family, my son, my friends. I don't know how anyone can find fault with that.

There are women for whom family is a priority, and they do it. It just wasn't as much a priority for me.

Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.

Because I don't do five films a year, people maybe think that acting is not essential to my life. But if I worked any more than I do, I'd have no personal life.

If it were said that I didn't fulfil my potential as a mother and wife, I'd be heartbroken. But if it were said that I hadn't fulfilled my potential as an actress, I would understand the reasons why.

I won't play past 30. Why? I want to - I don't know - start a family, live life.

I am not the kind of person who won't get married because of my career, because there was nothing great happening in my career anyway.

I would love to be producing movies, acting in more movies, and doing projects that are Oscar-worthy... have kids, be married, all that, being a normal human being as well, balancing it all out.

I've never made a conscious decision to choose work over other considerations.

When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our baby.