Alexis Denisof Quotes

As soon as I became a mom, my birthday stopped having any meaning whatsoever.

When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.

Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.

I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.

My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.

When you finally have kids, you realize how selfish you are. I think we are naturally selfish beings. When you have kids, that can kind of be a shock at first. I think just trying to make time for yourself is very hard. Especially now that I have 3, finding that time can be very difficult.

Being married is one thing, but having kids will completely change you. I still go out and hang with my buddies, but having two daughters will completely change your perspective on the world.

Bringing up children on my own was quite a busy time.

I basically gave up my dream of becoming a mom.

You can't keep doing the same things when you get married and have a family. You have to slow down. You have to be responsible.

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

I'm a mother of three children, and we do make mistakes.

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

Kids take you outside your comfort level because you ask yourself, 'How do I answer that question for them?' You think back to your childhood, and it's like: I don't want to give them that, I want to give them this. My life is my children.

I'll say - I have four kids! I married a woman when I was 24 years old. She was 13 years my senior. She had been married twice before. I adopted them. I was 24 and had a 17-year-old son instantly, an 11-year-old daughter, a 5-year-old, and a child on the way. So I had to learn how to become a parent very quickly.

I try to do everything from the viewpoint of what's best for my kids. I have three kids and two great dads and it's not always easy, but you have to try to be a little selfless and we manage just fine.

My life is so full of sacrifices.

I've made decisions along the way so I would be there for my kids, and it's kept me from going places I would have gone.

A relationship is hard in and of itself. And having kids is really hard work, but I think it's really meaningful, as is a relationship. But they all take work.

When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

I think that when you have kids, it's all about them.

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.