Emma Thompson Quotes

Everybody always talks about it, about how you don't know love until you meet your baby, and you really feel that. There are no words. It was a really wonderful surprise. And there is no way to prepare yourself for the sleep deprivation and what comes with it.

They say, once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'

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.

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 only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.

I agree with my mother that having children removes a layer of skin that you never grow back.

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.

But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now she's eight, and I'm still not going to go anywhere.

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

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

My most amazing discovery was becoming a mother. It changed everything. I can't imagine my life without these little beings.

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

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.

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.

Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.

My children were the center of my life.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing.

Having a baby takes so much from you. It's the most glorious thing you'll ever do, but the aftermath is not so glorious!

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.