Keeley Hawes Quotes

What having a child - and especially a daughter - has done is lifted more of the veil for me: allowed me to see things on another level compared to how I used to see them.

I've changed a lot because I am a father.

Children change you. They really do.

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.

Parenthood is so wild in its ability to put a mirror directly in your face and force you to look at yourself long and hard. What a challenge this is, but also what an exhilarating gift.

When I became a mother, my life completely changed.

My whole life turned upside down once I became a mother.

My life is divided up into before I had kids and after.

People change naturally when they have children.

I feel different. You know this many times over, because you are a parent, but it transforms you. It's this incredible experience where, in one way, you are still very much yourself, and in some ways you become even more connected to the rest of yourself. All of a sudden, you just get more connected to your child self, and your teenage self, and all these selves that you've maybe been abandoning at every date post that you pass.

Now I just feel like I'm more open to life. I have two children.

Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.

When I turned 25, something changed in me. I see children in my future 100%. Soon. I started thinking I want my kids to look back and say, 'Wasn't Mummy amazing?' I've really started thinking about what I'm leaving for them.

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

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.

I did a lot of work with myself over the course of being pregnant and the first few months of being pregnant. It's nice, the pace of being pregnant; it gives you a long time to not just germinate a baby but germinate the mother that you're gonna be.

Half the bloody world is going through a divorce; more than that are having children. All of us have parents who are dying or have died. It's just the life cycle.

A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

It's a constant thing we do in life... I marry someone or have kids; these are the evolutions of life that we go on. There are constant shifts.

My children are, without question, the most wonderful thing. I've learnt more about myself through my children than any other experience in my life.

I don't think anything changes after marriage. Things change in a big way after becoming a mother.

After having my kids, I definitely feel way more intense. I'm more clear. More sure.