Kathryn Erbe Quotes

It is a great thing about having young children, is that they don't really care whether you're the chief justice or whatever, and they do make sure that you have a good perspective on life and what's important.

The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you've had, that's the most important thing, and you have to remember that.

After my daughter was born, I made a promise to myself to live in the moment.

My kids give me the balance to live right.

Being a father now puts life in perspective. My whole life it's all been about trying to win. And now I'm trying to make a better life for my son than I've had.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.

Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

I don't think children have competed with my career, they have clarified it. My children ground me. They make me honest.

Every day, I wake up, and the first thing I think of is my kids.

If you're going to have kids, there's only one way to go. They have to know they're the most important things in your life, and once you're doing that, there's no way that you could not learn from them, because they just give you stuff constantly.

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

My kids inspire me to be the person I am today - without them I wouldn't be who I am today.

It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.

Work used to be the No. 1 important thing to me. Everything revolved around it, and to have a new perspective and have something else, my family, not just being a mom but being a part of an incredible family of my own, it makes me have a different perspective on life that I think is richer.

Being a mother changes perspective. Things that were once really important, the sole focus of your life, aren't the same.

I had three miscarriages, then, at forty-eight, a child with serious developmental difficulties. He is a blessing and a jewel. He is my teacher. From him I get and give unconditional love.

I lead a very normal life. I'm just so happy being a mother that everything else revolves around that. If a movie falls through or a TV show doesn't get picked up, I'm pretty easygoing about it because I'm just like, 'Yay, I get to be with my kids more!'

My day starts with my son and finishes with my son, and in between, I get to do everything else.

I wouldn't change my marriage because I have eight awesome kids that I would not change.

There's so much I want to do. But after all I've been through, I realize nothing is more important to me than family.

Angelina and Brad have shown me that caring for children is the greatest gift in the world.

I always remember what's the most important thing - my kids.