Anne Parillaud Quotes

I didn't know I'd ever be able to love my second child like I love my first; she came out, and I was amazed I could love them both equally.

I can't even remember anything before Albee. There is this bursting love you feel, but it's so intense and so all-consuming. I've become one of those psychopath mothers who loves looking at my kid and being with my kid, and then, when he takes a nap, I'm just looking at videos and pictures of him on my phone. I'm obnoxious.

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

When I gave birth to my son, something happened. It is a huge thing for a woman: a whole set of emotions you never had before arrives, and a love you never had before in your life is now on tap.

Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that expands in my being is more than I ever thought possible.

People always say you never know love until you have your own child and all of that is true.

Children change you. You have this overwhelming feeling of responsibility, of love - they're everything. They're yours. You know when you're cuddling them, cradling them, and you can smell their hair. I love that.

For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me.

The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.

I have six children and I love all my kids more than anything in the world.

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

It doesn't matter if a child comes to you or through you. That love is still the same. You are still a mother.

I was wondering if I could love another child as much as I love my son. And what I realized, within hours of my daughter being born, not only do I love her just as much if not more.

I thought I knew what love was before giving birth to my baby, but whatever I had experienced in the past paled in comparison to the utterly unconditional love I immediately felt for the little bundle I now held in my arms.

When I became a father, I think that my understanding of what love was and my connection to that emotion shifted. I saw my children being born and recognizing what they call a miracle.

The moment you have children, it's like your heart gets out of your body, puts on clothes, and walks away.

~I think what surprised me the most about motherhood, as sentimental as it sounds, is how much I love my kids. I mean, I just can't believe it. It's like a whole new dimension in emotion that I've never experienced.~

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.

Until you have kids, you can't imagine how much you could possibly love a human being.

My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.