Arabella Weir Quotes

Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope the other kids play nice and that she makes friends.

When my kids were very young, I have seen them crying, as they didn't want to go to school.

For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.

At 41 and a half weeks pregnant, I started to have second thoughts about becoming a mother.

As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.

I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels like the first time.

I love New York. I first came here with my Mom when I was in 9th grade. I took the subway for the first time and the doors closed between me and my Mom, and I was so scared. I could see her through the window and I didn't know what to do. I got off at the next stop and she caught up to me, but I couldn't stop crying.

The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive.

Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.

If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.

My first day in grade school, I was plain scared. I left the comfort of my run-down house, which I loved, and went to school where it was cold, it smelled, the lighting was bad.

As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.

I remember, being young is a scary, wonderful feeling.

Does ever a kid likes to go to the school on his first day? No, right. But then he is prepared that way.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can't imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

This deep insecurity has been going on for a while. I mean I picked it up in 2014 sitting in focus groups of women who were feeling terrified, not just about that ISIS was coming, but terrified that their children couldn't be safe at school, terrified about what was happening in Ferguson and other places.

Having a little boy has taken me to a very deep place. I am starting to realize everything I ever worried about was such a waste of time.

I still feel I'm going to wake up any moment, and my skin's going to break out all over.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience.

The most terrifying thing in the world was having to give a speech at my girlfriend's wedding. I was physically shaking and sweating the entire time.

At midlife, I think a woman has more in common with her teenage children than anybody else. We all are kind of uncertain. We realize for the first time in either our lives or decades that we're in charge now.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

I just can't stand the fact that they're going out on their own - I love having my kids around, and I'm angry at them for going out and becoming independent. I want to tuck them in and drive them to school in the morning, but they just won't let me do that anymore.