Julianne Moore Quotes

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

I do know I will enjoy family life. What I've seen from moms, or heard stories from people who became a parent, it's such a consuming thing; it's such a wonderful thing. I consider it an extreme luxury to have that time and to not have to do anything else, and just be with my kid.

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.

Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

For years before I became a father, I would try to spend as much time as I could with my friends who were parents and their kids. And I was really impressed. They all sort of managed to do it, and do it gracefully.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

Being a parent can be overwhelming at times, but it's something we're figuring out as we go.

Any parent who says parenting came easily to them is not being honest with themselves. Parenting is hard.

Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

The biggest challenge is the chaos of parenthood, which has honestly been such a welcome challenge - bring it on, I say!

I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.