Maria Bello Quotes

[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.

This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.

I'm not thinking about me that much anymore. Every time I look, I'm looking for my daughter, you know? If I'm in a store, I'm looking at baby clothes. It's so much cuter to find things for her than to find things for me.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

When you become a mother, it's a common thing that you just want to put every ounce of your being into your child, which is a very beautiful experience.

Being a mother is the ultimate training ground for anything.

I am just trying to live for my kids. It is all about my kids now. I love them endlessly.

My kids mean more to me than anything I thought was important when I was younger.

Motherhood is always an act of courage.

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood.

Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.

To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.

My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.

Being a mother is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me in my life.

I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.

I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.

I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.

When you become a parent, it blows you open in ways that you never thought possible in terms of a level of love that I know I never thought I could possibly have.

I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.

If I'm lucky enough to see the day when my sons are living independently, maybe with families of their own, I'll still be wondering how I can be a better mother and worrying about the things I overlooked back when they lived under my roof.