Joanna Lumley Quotes

When my son was born, I spent a lot of time with him. I came to know a better side of me that I didn't know till now. He is actually the biggest change in my life.

The world doesn't revolve around me anymore. Now it's all about this little baby. I come home after a rough day, I see her and she smiles and nothing but that matters. I know that sounds really cliche but it's the truth.

People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.

I expected it to be overwhelming and all-encompassing, but having a kid brings you into the world in a whole different way.

No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.

Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed.

When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't.

Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.

When our daughter was born, a light went on for me - there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn't the dream I was sold on. I'd had enough of it.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

I'm really close to my parents and my sisters. It is awesome to have a built-in support system and people who love you unconditionally. I wouldn't be the person I am without my crew!

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

When my daughter was born, I said: 'I feel like I know what I've been waiting my whole life to be.'

My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.

I've been running my whole life. Running into bars, running around the world. But when you have a child, you can't run. That was a revelation.

My son's the most precious thing to me; he's changed me from being selfish to selfless.

When my twin grandchildren, Linda and Lyeke, were born two years ago, it changed me. I felt it was the essence of what life is about, and I cried all day. When my son Pierre, their father, was born I didn't cry like that.

Anyone who pays attention to these things can easily see the incredible bond that everyone in my family shares.

My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along.

I've been married one time and I have one daughter, who I love more than anyone in the world. And that's where my world is.

Having children changes your outlook 100 percent of your life.

I never really liked kids before, and kind of hated them. I just didn't like them. I don't know why. All that has changed ever since my daughter was born, and I have started loving kids now.

Some people think that your life changes for the worse when you become a father, but on the contrary, when my daughter was born, she brought light and joy into my life.

I've had two great loves: my mother and my daughter.