Jess Weixler Quotes

The moment your kid's born you realize no one knows anything. No one goes to classes. You just have a kid. You can read all the books you like, but unfortunately none of our kids have read the books so they don't care. You're basically making it up as you go along.

You don't take a class; you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.

We were so unprepared that when my husband took off to get groceries, and we'd adopted a 3-year-old, he came back with baby formula, a steak and a teething ring. We had no idea what we were doing. But you learn. There's no way to fully prepare. Just eyes wide open - jump.

Fathers, for the first time, we have no clue what we're doing. I had no idea when I became a father.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Everyone knows with a rookie, you're going to take lumps. Even with a first-, second-, third-year guy, you're going to take lumps until you gain that experience. But for me, it was nice to get out there and get the experience and do it. I'm a guy that has to do it.

Motherhood is the greatest thing I've ever done in my life.

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

Having a child is a lifetime commitment, the biggest one you can possibly make.

Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way.

I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.

Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.

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

Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life.

Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

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.

We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a goddamn thing about doing a show.

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

There is no schooling for fame and success. You learn as you walk.