Bianca Balti Quotes

'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.

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.

I look for the safety of my child. I don't really care about me.

Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.

If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.

I have been in danger of being drowned twice.

I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.

I didn't think I was going to die. I knew some did. I knew there were some rumors.

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'

It doesn't matter if a child comes to you or through you. That love is still the same. You are still a mother.

You love your child, and you want to protect your child more than anything on this planet, and yet, by the time they're 17, 18, they're going to step into this world, and that world will not feel the same compunction, necessarily, toward your daughter.

I'm getting asked a lot, 'You don't have kids, so how do you know how to act like a mother?' I know nothing could compare, and I haven't had that experience, but when my niece was born, I felt like I would jump in front of a car and die for this little person I didn't even know yet.

Mothers are the only ones that think nothing is beyond their control when it comes to their children.

I am a mother. Whether it is Alia or Shaheen, at any point in time, if they are suffering, I am the one who gets affected badly.

The scariest thing I ever did was give birth in the kitchen by myself, with my three-year-old bashing me on the head with a sword, but it's not like you have a choice is it.

Sometimes you found yourself in conflict or within an area where there's conflict. Some days you just find yourself in danger. Sometimes these things mould you and that's what I mean about hostile environments.

[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.

It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.

The only thing you want is to come back alive.

You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.

I only need to know one thing. Am I going to need the flamethrower?