Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

There is never a right or wrong time to have kids; it happens for whatever reason, but you can have this paranoia: 'will I be able to do this, I'm not sure if I'm ready to have kids?'

My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!

Sometimes I regret waiting so long to have a child, but I don't make the rules. The universe decided it was going to take me a while to get to be a mom!

I definitely want children. That's important to me, so I just want to make sure that I'm completely prepared for it when that day comes.

I do know I want to have children. That's the only thing missing in my life. I certainly thought I'd have some by now.

Most of my best friends had children in their early 40s.

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

I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.

For a long time, I wanted children. When I was about 30 or 32, I really thought about it.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don't wait too long to have children.

I am thinking about those things now. More so than all my friends - they're a lot older than me, but they're not even thinking about babies.

A lot of times people say, 'As soon as you relax you'll have a kid.'

Have kids; have a lot of kids. Start early and keep having them.

I haven't really made up my mind concretely about having kids.

I'm not going to have a baby until I'm around 30-something.

I hope that I'll be able to have kids with a mate. But I don't know if that's in the plan.

When you're in your mid-thirties, the cult of people who have children around you all want you in their cult, and they constantly ask you, 'So when are you going to have a baby?'

I definitely want to be a mum. Lots of my friends are having babies, but I don't know quite when to do it. My mum says, 'There's never a right time; you've just got to get on with it'.

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?

I think we are not yet well aware that, unfortunately, we have a short time to be moms. This is not to suggest that we should rush to have children or do it in a crazy way. I think that's the most important decision of a woman's life.

I'll start with one healthy kid, but I'd like to have a few naturally and adopt.

Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon.

In 2014, having children is complicated and daunting and fraught - as much as it's always been, but now we're talking about it. And the more we talk about it, the more of us will realize that we're not going through it alone. Far from it.

When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?