Rose Byrne Quotes

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

I think I'm playing grown up because I have kids now. But I don't feel grown up yet.

One has to do everything at the right time. That includes motherhood.

I think when you have children, it just changes your worldview.

I'm in a different chapter of my life. As time goes by and I grow older, I find that I need to just be quiet and think. There have been periods when I've locked myself away for days, but now it's different - I'm married and we have a daughter who is in my office the whole time.

I think whether you've got children or not you're just more aware of others as you get out of your 20s.

Once I had kids, my whole attitude changed. I was like, "You make a spinal cord from scratch and we'll talk."

I hope that I have gained some wisdom, but I don't know. I have kids, and that certainly puts things into perspective. I think I'm a more patient person. I hope I'm a more patient person. I'm a little more relaxed about the peripheral side of this business, which I used to find very confusing and alarming.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?

Luckily, I'm not one of those people who wants to be young; it's never bothered me.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.

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

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.

For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.

I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.

I definitely want to have kids. I've grown up around lots of people who were having kids when I knew them, because a lot of them were a lot older than me. And I saw the wonderful change in them.

I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.

You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home.

When certain doors opened around 'Twin Peaks,' I wasn't interested in walking through them. Now I just feel like I'm more open to life. I have two children. My life is not dependent on the business in that way.

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 feel like I grew up in such a big way in the past couple of years, in a way that I never thought I would. You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home.

Parenting makes us better in so many regards.