Chanel Iman Quotes

When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.

I couldn't be where I am today if I had children. My focus would be on my children and home. And you can do it later in life.

I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.

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 was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.

Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that.

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.

Ultimately, you know, I'm a grown-up, I've been in this business a long time. I've got kids. I've got to do my stuff. But I also need to keep it there so I can bring it up again the next day at work or whatever.

I never think career.

I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married in 1968, we were pretty nose-down toward what we wanted to do, and having a child was going to be an excuse to fail.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

I'm still very much about being an actor. That's why I'm not married with kids.

I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.

Before I had children, everything about my life was devoted to Saturday Night Live.

I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.

But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to.

I don't really think in career terms.

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

When a woman gets to 30, you ask her about having kids. I don't mind - all my friends are settled with kids, so I can understand people asking, and I even get it from relatives, but I'd be a fool to miss these work opportunities. And there's no time limit. One day I'll find my prince, but at the minute, I'm enjoying kissing a few frogs.

A lot of relationships have ended for me in my 20s, because I knew that eventually those people would wanna settle down and have kids.

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.

I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.

I have to put my career first.

I was never really a career woman. My life always came first.