Michael Crichton Quotes

I think being a mom changed me, and now it's not just about what I want to do and what's sort of interesting, but what I absolutely have to do.

It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there holding her in my arms for the first time. And that kind of responsibility you feel when you hold a child in your arms.

Now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire family, as well as myself, my woman, and my team that I consider family.

I kept arguing that 'love is the most important force, love is the most important force.' So I wanted to show him loving. Sometimes it's dramatic: it means you lay down your life. But sometimes it means making sure someone's trunk is packed and hoping they'll be O.K. at school.

When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

I was in no way ready when my daughter was born. But I want to be a good father to her.

I had a lot of guilt as a single mother trying to raise a child. I had to go to work and Jeffrey was screaming that he didn't want me to. You have to give yourself permission to let go of the guilt.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to.

People with children can never be good revolutionaries.

If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's the world coming to?

Children when irregularly produced are a cause of great inconvenience.

One the one hand, the simple fact that there are children and that I do have an effect on them has been one of the most potent antidepressants that I've ever had. And on the other hand, there are moments when I feel imprisoned by the reality that I can no longer make my decisions just for myself, that I have to consider the interests of others.

Suddenly, when you have kids, you become responsible for these other people - like if something's not working out at school. I learned to speak out.

My father became completely responsible for my education and for raising me.

My family knows they are loved. As a mother, it is my job to let them know that they are, and it's a job I take quite seriously.

You can fudge a lot as an actor, but you can't fudge being a parent.

Your entire world revolves around your kid, especially when you are a dad to a girl child. Your responsibilities become more.

When you become a pa, you have different priorities now, and you're not living for yourself; you're living for someone else now.

I'm a parent. I'm a mother.

I can't just lie in bed and be self-obsessed if there are two children running about who could easily fall down the stairs.

Many single mothers do a heroic job looking after their children, as mine did with us; but as she found, it becomes twice as hard to set boundaries with half the number of parents.